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4 blood donors now test positive for HIV, setting off alarm bells in Jharkhand

October 31, 2025 3:25 am

Retesting of 259 donors being carried out after five children undergoing treatment for thalassemia tested positive for HIV, allegedly from blood transfusions

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Meghalaya mulling law to make HIV testing mandatory before marriage: Health minister

July 25, 2025 11:48 am

Meghalaya ranks sixth nationally in terms of HIV/AIDS prevalence, with the northeastern region facing a high burden overall, she said.

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Over 600 HIV+ people come together in Surat to find a match; 13 attend virtually from abroad

October 01, 2024 2:06 am

The participants included doctors, engineers, builders, businessmen and IT professionals

Civil Hospital patient found abandoned on roadside in Mansa succumbs; probe on

November 25, 2023 7:29 am

The deceased, identified as Mansa resident Karan, 32, son of Ramesh, had been under treatment at the hospital but was allegedly abandoned near Green Valley Colony.

Hyderabad: Blood bank in a spot as 3-year-old thalassemia patient tests HIV positive

August 09, 2022 2:01 pm

The parents of the child have lodged a complaint against the blood bank where he has been undergoing blood transfusion for the past two-and-a-half years. The blood bank is run by the Indian Red Cross Society

He helped cure the ‘London patient’ of HIV. Then he turned to Covid.

June 07, 2022 3:40 pm

At his lab at Cambridge, he discussed both the remarkable strides made by scientists over the past three years, as well as the consequences of the public’s diminishing trust in scientific knowledge

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World AIDS Day 2020: A doctor debunks top five myths about the virus and its transmission

December 01, 2020 2:10 pm

"Misinformation and stigmatisation has dramatically impacted patients with HIV/AIDS across the globe," says Dr Kirti Sabnis, Infectious Disease Specialist, Fortis Hospitals, Mumbai

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When a lab missed HIV+ blood: what’s the screening protocol, what now

January 02, 2019 7:06 am

How do government health facilities tackle the obvious risk? What went wrong?

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Uttar Pradesh: Drive detects 459 HIV+ inmates in jails

April 06, 2016 12:59 am

Of the total 459 HIV positives inmates, the officials have started Antiretroviral treatment (ART) of 69, as per the report.

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HIV positive boy barred from school: NHRC notice to WB Govt

January 15, 2016 7:17 pm

Indian Express on Nov 20 reported, the seven-year-old boy upon being tested HIV+, five months ago, was asked to leave the school after the confidential report about his health status was leaked.