The Alliance calls on international donors to seize the chance to save more lives prevent more infections and ultinmately defeat AIDS, TB and Malaria by recommitting to Global Fund in its 2014-2016 replenishment conference in Autum 2013. Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) has [...]
On World Malaria Day, 25 April, WHO recognizes significant accomplishments in preventing and controlling malaria, including in high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa, but highlights the threat of antimalarial drug resistance in south-east Asia’s Greater Mekong subregion, where an emergency response is now being launched. “In recent years endemic countries, including countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have [...]
World Health Organisation (WHO) and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said that strains of Tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least US$ 1.6 billion in international funding for treatment and prevention of the disease. Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, and Dr. [...]
In view of the health hazards associated with needle sharing, the Sindh Aids Control Programme (SACP) is considering the introduction of oral substitution therapy for intravenous drug users (IDUs). Speaking at ‘Media Dialogue with People Living with HIV’, arranged by the SACP in connection with World Aids Day activities, programme manager Dr Arshad Mehmood said [...]
The number of people with access to antiretroviral therapy increased by 63% in the last 24 months—AIDS-related deaths fell by more than 25% between 2005 and 2011 globally A new World AIDS Day Report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), shows that unprecedented acceleration in the AIDS response is producing results for people. [...]
U.S.researchers are preparing to begin human clinical trials of a novel therapy that uses genetically modified stem cells to fight HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The therapy would populate a patient’s diseased immune system with healthy new cells resistant to HIV infection. Scientists believe the new therapy could mean a functional cure for patients [...]
The Sindh Health Department has directed the officials in charge of all government, district hospitals and disease control programs to purchase medicines through a centralized system as opposed to the decentralized system practised earlier. The health department will be responsible for providing medicines to departments concerned only after all required details are submitted. According to [...]
HIV and AIDS has become a universal problem and a great challenge for Pakistan as there are more than one hundred thousand people living with HIV & AIDS in Pakistan and especially after interruptions in funding for the said field its intensity and severity as a challenge has heightened especially after recent devolution. This was [...]
Global progress in both preventing and treating HIV emphasizes the benefits of sustaining investment in HIV/AIDS over the longer term. The latest report by the WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS Report on the global HIV/AIDS response indicates that increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade and [...]
Since most people living with HIV in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organisation (WHO), of which Pakistan is also a part, do not know that they are infected with the virus, or are not known to the health system, regional treatment coverage is still the lowest globally. This fact has come to [...]
It seems that every day another area of the economy is depressed because of the global financial crisis in the banks and governments around the world. This time it's The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, which has announced it will make no new grants until 2014; and there is a possibility of [...]
Members of the Advisory Board for a global scientific strategy “Towards an HIV Cure” today launched the Rome Statement for an HIV Cure calling for an acceleration of HIV cure research. The announcement was made at the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) held in Rome. Recent scientific [...]
The International AIDS Society (IAS) - Industry Liaison Forum (ILF) celebrates its ten year anniversary, adding another important milestone to this already historic year in the global response to HIV/AIDS. This year marks 30 years since the first reported AIDS cases, ten years since the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was adopted, and ten [...]
Heartfile participate International AIDS Society Conference Pre – Meeting held on August 9, 2011 in Rome. It was hosted by Wafaa El-Sadr, Rifat Atun and Jean Paul Moatti. The meeting was chaired and moderated by President Heartfile, Dr. Sania Nishtar. The panelists included Ambassador Eric Goosby (United States Global AIDS Coordinator), Bart Janssen [...]
Dr. Saeed Ahmed, Husaini Blood Bank Thalassaemia is an inherited genetic blood disorder in which patient’s hemoglobin is abnormally formed. Normally the baby inherits one alpha & one beta gene from the mother and one alpha & beta gene from the father. These two alpha and two beta genes produce two alpha and two beta [...]
