India’s AIDS problem is particularly difficult to fight because the stigma of being HIV-positive there is so great, says Malini Daniel, a staff writer for the magazine. “With 3.97 million ...

NEW DELHI – India has roughly 2.5 million people infected with HIV, less than half the number of cases that previous studies estimated, the health minister and international AIDS experts said ...

HIV Risk profile and its socio-demographic correlates among long-distance truckers in West Bengal, India: Evidence from national HIV sentinel surveillance 2017, Indian Journal of Public Health, 64 ...

The 2007 UNAIDS/WHO AIDS epidemic update just released has revised the global estimate of HIV/AIDS primarily due to a major reduction of the estimate for India to 2.5 million people living with ...

WHO endorses biannual injectable Lenacapavir for HIV prevention. This long-acting PrEP offers hope for high-risk groups and ...

In 2023, there were 25.44 lakh people living with HIV in India with an adult HIV prevalence around 0.20% in the Indian population (which is below the global average of 0.70%).

A new United Nations estimate cuts in half the number of people living with AIDS and HIV in India, which was once ranked as having the largest infected population in the world. The numbers do not ...

Editor’s Note: Health Affairs’deputy editor Parmeeth Atwal spoke recently with Ashok Alexander, director of Avahan, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s HIV prevention initiative in India ...

Researchers Report 35 Percent Drop Among 15-24-Year-Olds. The number of HIV infections has fallen by more than a third among young people in southern India, the worst-hit region of the South Asian ...

An HIV treatment regimen already widely used in North America and Europe would likely increase the life expectancy of people living with HIV in India by nearly three years and reduce the number of ...

Official figures might over-estimate the number of HIV-positive individuals in India. A new study published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine finds that the HIV burden is 2.5 times ...

GUWAHATI, India - The number of new HIV cases in India, home to the second highest infections in the world, is far more than what official data shows and epidemics in some pockets were alarming ...