India&#39;s Hetero Takes AIDS Drugs Off WHO List
6504
Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its generic antiretroviral drugs from the WHO&#39;s list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
548812
Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
172649
NEW DELHI, July 6 -- India's HIV population, thought to be the largest in the world, is actually half what experts had previously estimated, according to new figures released Friday by the country's Health Ministry.
164945
India is taking bids for an independent evaluation of the country&#39;s National AIDS Control Organization to identify ways to improve HIV prevention and treatment in the country, Indian health minister Anbumani Ramadoss announced Thursday.
685693
The World Health Organisation is reinstating two generic AIDS antiretroviral drugs delisted earlier this year after the Indian manufacturer carried out new studies to confirm that they are as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
276109
LONDON: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has denied the global war on HIV/ AIDS is being held up by the lack of high-quality but cheap non-branded drugs and insisted that Indiaâs existing approved generic medicines are fighting the good fight.
28543
GENEVA, NOVEMBER 19 : Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its anti-retroviral drugs from the World Health Organisationâs (WHO) list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, WHO said on Friday.
238759
Researchers have halted two studies of an anti-AIDS vaginal gel in Africa and India after early results suggested it might raise the risk of HIV infection instead of lowering it.
73732
India says it will appoint private consultants to determine the number of people infected with the AIDS virus. The Indian government estimates the number at 5.1 million, the second most in the world after South Africa.
662858
Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its  anti-AIDS drugs off the U.N.'s approved list, the World Health  Organization said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to efforts to make  cheaper medicines more widely available for the scourge.
117300
Women in India, home to the world's second largest HIV population after South Africa, are becoming more vulnerable to AIDS, leading to a growing "feminisation" of the epidemic, a U.N. expert said on Friday.
688083
GlaxoSmithKline Plc cut the prices on its range of HIV drugs offered to developing countries, marking the fifth such discount since 1997.
506411
EKA, India  - Sitting on a wooden bench under a   slowly whirring fan, 43-year-old Prempal says he urgently needs   anti-retroviral drugs to fight the HIV illness in his body.
20592
Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new HIV drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
513966
NDORI, Kenya -- Giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women has long been celebrated as one of the few successful tactics in the war against AIDS in Africa. A single pill for a woman in labor, followed by a sip of syrup for her newborn baby, cuts HIV transmission rates by more than half,...
733464
India's top pharmaceutical group Ranbaxy has withdrawn all its anti-AIDS drugs from World Health Organisation certification after it found the laboratory tests proving their effectiveness were deficient, the UN health agency said.
310124
Two generic drug products by the Indian  drug maker Cipla for treating HIV/AIDS have been reinstated on  the World Health Organization's recommended list six months  after being removed, a senior WHO official said on Tuesday.