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2031 Outlook: More promises
A massive up-scaling of the treatment programme, an AIDS vaccine, and professionally run prevention programmes were listed as important targets to be achieved by 2031, at the conclusion of the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City Read more
 
How ART survival rates compare in developing countries
Though ART programmes are doing well in most countries, there are significant disparities between and within different geographical areas and populations, the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City heard. Read more
 
Injecting drug users deprived of treatment
Injecting drug users comprise almost 10% of people living with HIV but face many obstacles in treatment, noted Dr Paul Nunn of the WHO at the release of treatment guidelines for injecting drug users at the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City Read more
 
The Invisible Men
The HIV epidemic in Asia and Africa among men who have sex with men is similar to the epidemic in the 1980s in the US and Europe, said Peter Piot, retiring director of UNAIDS, at the satellite meeting on gay men/MSM preceding the 2008 World AIDS Conference in Mexico City Read more
 
'HIV/AIDS is not taking money away from other diseases': Sujata Rao
Sujata Rao, head of the National AIDS Control Organisation, explains in an exclusive interview why the HIV/AIDS programme in India should be considered very successful Read more
 
Still a long way to go: Overview of the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS
Once every two years a high level UN meeting is held to assess the status of HIV/AIDS countrywise. This year, the report card showed some gains in access to treatment and increasing awareness, but emphasised that there was a long way to go to provide affordable drugs, universal access to treatment and gender equality Read more
 
Call for action on HIV TB
As preparation for the first meeting of the HIV TB Global Leaders' Forum at the United Nations on June 9, 2008, the Forum has put out a ‘call for action’ that reminds governments of the seriousness of the HIV-TB link and what actions they must take Read more
 

The National AIDS Control Programme (1, 2, 3)
Each of the three phases of the National Aids Control Programme in India have focused on, or emphasised, different aspects of the HIV epidemic in efforts to contain the spread of the disease Read more