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NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old Delhi man is critically ill with a rare drug reaction after he took HIV post-exposure medicines bought without prescription, after taking advice from an AI chat platform.The man developed Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare but potentially life-threatening reaction from the drugs he self-administered after a high-risk sexual contact. Post-exposure drugs are taken…
KURNOOL: Four persons, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly injecting a doctor with an HIV-infected injection, police said on Sunday. The victim is reportedly the wife of the woman’s former lover, according to news agency PTI.The accused were identified as B Boya Vasundhara (34), a resident of Kurnool; Konge Jyothi (40), a nurse working…
ETAH: A 10-year-old boy in Etah district brought his mother’s body alone for a post-mortem examination on Thursday, after she died during treatment for tuberculosis and HIV at a district hospital. With no family members by his side and no help forthcoming from neighbours or relatives, the boy sat beside the corpse for hours, waiting,…
BHOPAL: Two months after TOI broke the story of how six children battling thalassaemia contracted HIV after receiving blood transfusions at govt hospitals in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa and Koderma, a similar incident has come to light in Madhya Pradesh. In the latest case, six thalassaemia-affected children, aged between 3 and 15 years, tested HIV-positive at a…
RAJKOT: After checking was intensified across Gujarat due to the blast in Delhi, a Syrian man was arrested in Khambhalia town of Devbhumi Dwarka district on Monday for allegedly living in India without a valid visa.Police sources said that the 29-year-old Syrian national is in a same-sex relationship with a man from Khambhalia and had…
Koderma: A 10-year-old boy with thalassemia has tested positive for HIV after transfusions at a govt hospital in the state, making him the sixth child to be infected since last month during treatment at state-run facilities amid a deepening blood safety crisis and crackdown.While the latest case surfaced Sunday over transfusions at Koderma Sadar Hospital,…
NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old thalassemia patient in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, was tested HIV-positive, prompting an investigation into allegations that the local blood bank transfused contaminated blood.The matter came to light on Friday after the child’s family accused the blood bank of providing infected blood. Since the child began treatment, around 25 units of blood had…
Light at the end of the tunnel, at last!It seems HIV is finally on its way to being defeated.In a groundbreaking development in the fight against HIV, a new injectable drug, lenacapavir, is set to revolutionize prevention efforts. And the wait isn’t for long either. Starting in 2027, this long-acting medication will be available in…
The battle against HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, has been ongoing for decades. Perhaps one of the most important advances in their understanding and fight against the virus has been the identification of a unique class of antibodies called broadly neutralising antibodies, or bNAbs. They have been found to have extraordinary potential for neutralising…
