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Namibia has discontinued the use of Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine following concerns raised by neighbouring South Africa, the health ministry said on Saturday.

South Africa's health products regulator on Monday said it would not approve Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns it could increase the risk of HIV infection among men.

In a bid to commemorate India's 75th year of Independence, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawa launched Phase II of awareness campaigns on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis

The Covid-19 pandemic had a "devastating" impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in 2020, according to a report released by the Global Fund on Wednesday.

HIV is a "significant" risk factor for severe Covid-19, the World Health Organization said in research published on Thursday that showed a major increase in deaths among patients who have the virus that causes AIDS and are hospitalised with Covid.

Two decades ago, Soumya Swaminathan watched her HIV-infected patients suffer often horrific and unnecessary deaths. There was a treatment for their disease, but they simply could not afford it.

World AIDS Vaccine Day: Today is World AIDS Vaccine Day. Here are 10 important facts to know about AIDS Vaccine Day. According to the WHO, there were an estimated 38 million people living with HIV at the end of 2019. Here are 10 facts

World-renowned South African Indian-origin academic Prof Hoosen Mahomed 'Jerry'' Coovadia has described the COVID-19 pandemic as something he has never seen in a career of over six decades.

The handheld device also helps in rapid detection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), IIT Delhi said.

When Bette Korber, a biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spotted the first significant mutation in the Covid-19 virus last spring, some scientists were skeptical.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed artificial enzymes that can block reactivation and replication of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the host’s immune cells.

The research team has found that introducing electrostatic interaction sites on potential drug molecules can enhance the efficacy of antiviral drugs against the HIV virus.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, are engaged in developing a new idea that can pave the way for effective treatment of HIV/AIDS, a senior professor said on Thursday.

The Haryana government will bring patients of the state suffering from cancer, HIV and serious kidney ailments under the ambit of its social security pension scheme.

India will begin vaccination against the deadly coronavirus tomorrow with frontline health workers receiving the first shots. Vaccines have been flown to 12 cities for the first phase of the drive and kept under armed guard. States have been allotted vaccine doses based on their healthcare workers' data.

Namibia has discontinued the use of Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine following concerns raised by neighbouring South Africa, the health ministry said on Saturday.

South Africa's health products regulator on Monday said it would not approve Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns it could increase the risk of HIV infection among men.

In a bid to commemorate India's 75th year of Independence, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pravin Pawa launched Phase II of awareness campaigns on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis

The Covid-19 pandemic had a "devastating" impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in 2020, according to a report released by the Global Fund on Wednesday.

HIV is a "significant" risk factor for severe Covid-19, the World Health Organization said in research published on Thursday that showed a major increase in deaths among patients who have the virus that causes AIDS and are hospitalised with Covid.

Two decades ago, Soumya Swaminathan watched her HIV-infected patients suffer often horrific and unnecessary deaths. There was a treatment for their disease, but they simply could not afford it.

World AIDS Vaccine Day: Today is World AIDS Vaccine Day. Here are 10 important facts to know about AIDS Vaccine Day. According to the WHO, there were an estimated 38 million people living with HIV at the end of 2019. Here are 10 facts

World-renowned South African Indian-origin academic Prof Hoosen Mahomed 'Jerry'' Coovadia has described the COVID-19 pandemic as something he has never seen in a career of over six decades.

The handheld device also helps in rapid detection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), IIT Delhi said.

When Bette Korber, a biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spotted the first significant mutation in the Covid-19 virus last spring, some scientists were skeptical.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed artificial enzymes that can block reactivation and replication of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the host’s immune cells.

The research team has found that introducing electrostatic interaction sites on potential drug molecules can enhance the efficacy of antiviral drugs against the HIV virus.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, are engaged in developing a new idea that can pave the way for effective treatment of HIV/AIDS, a senior professor said on Thursday.

The Haryana government will bring patients of the state suffering from cancer, HIV and serious kidney ailments under the ambit of its social security pension scheme.

India will begin vaccination against the deadly coronavirus tomorrow with frontline health workers receiving the first shots. Vaccines have been flown to 12 cities for the first phase of the drive and kept under armed guard. States have been allotted vaccine doses based on their healthcare workers' data.