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November 26, 2025 10:46 AM

UNAIDS Warns of Major Setbacks in Global HIV Response, Calls for Renewed Solidarity

The global response to HIV has suffered its most significant setback in decades, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) warned on Tuesday, calling for renewed solidarity, resilience, investment and innovation to achieve the goal of ending the AIDS epidemic. The warning comes in a new report titled “Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response,” which highlights the severe impact of declining international funding and weakened global solidarity on HIV prevention eff...

April 14, 2025 3:59 PM

Explained: What is Type-5 diabetes? Why the malnutrition-induced condition is back?

While blood sugar cases are significantly soaring worldwide, a lesser-known malnutrition-related form of diabetes -- designated as Type-5 diabetes – is gaining global attention after decades. Nearly 75 years after being first recorded, the condition that previously remained undefined was designated as Type- 5 diabetes at the recently held International Diabetes Federation’s (IDF) World Diabetes Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. The condition, occurring often in young and thin adults, was firs...

February 21, 2025 5:19 PM

India no longer dependent on foreign aid for tackling AIDS: NACO

India is no longer dependent on foreign aid or funding to tackle the burden of AIDS, said Dr Uday Bhanu Das, Deputy Director General of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Friday. Speaking at the 16th National Conference of the AIDS Society of India, being held in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, Das noted that a major chunk of funding for various AIDS programmes in the country comes from the government. “Currently, 94 per cent of the fund...