Chinese gay dating app Blued is halting new user registration for a week, it said on Sunday, following media reports that underage users caught HIV after going on dates set up via the world`s largest networking app for the LGBT community.

Chinese gay dating app halts registration after underage HIV report

Days after a pregnant woman died in Tamil Nadu after she contracted HIV through infected blood transfusion, the youth whose blood was transfused into her body also died on Sunday.

Tamil Nadu: Teen commits suicide after his HIV-infected blood gets transfused to pregnant woman

As Venezuela's hyperinflation and chronic medicine shortages leave HIV patients with little hope of obtaining life-saving anti-retroviral medications, many are now relying on the leaves of a tropical tree known called the guasimo.

With no antiretrovirals, Venezuela HIV patients rely on leaf remedy

Karnataka lake drained after HIV+ woman's body found floating

“Know your status” is the theme for this year’s World AIDS Day on December 1. Knowing HIV status is a critical step to ensure one is not infected, and if infected, to get treatment at the earliest.

Fighting the scourge of AIDS

An estimated 120,000 children and adolescents aged 0-19 were living with HIV in India in 2017, the highest number in South Asia, according a report by UNICEF which warned that around 80 adolescents will be dying of AIDS every day globally by 2030 if progress in preventing transmission is not accelerated.

In 2017, 120,000 children and adolescents were living with HIV in India: UN Report

A Chinese researcher, who claimed to have created the world's first gene-edited babies that are resistant to HIV, has been suspended from any scientific activity amid mounting criticism at home and abroad about the controversial experiment, according to media reports.

China bans researcher who edited human gene

The highly acclaimed documentary 'Lovesick' which is about two HIV+ singles finding true love in each other through a 'matchmaking' doctor premiered at the JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, Monday.

'Lovesick' a documentary on HIV+ features in MAMI

In the camps, 566 people were examined of whom 21 were found to be infected with HIV

21 infected with HIV in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao after use of same injection

According to recent reports as of 2017, worldwide, between 28.9 million and 41.5 million people have been killed by AIDS

World AIDS Day: A fact file

On Wednesday, AHF launched ?Love Condoms? as a measure to reduce new cases of HIV/AIDS in the country

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The HIV virus could not be detected in a clinical trial patient after he was given the ART treatment along with an HDAC drug

Possible cure for HIV developed by UK researchers

The latest Department of Health figures showed there were 841 newly diagnosed HIV cases in the Philippines

Philippines' war on drugs fuelling an HIV epidemic?

'There is a lot of prejudice against HIV-positive people and I hope to change that,' the 'Two and a Half Men' star said

Charlie Sheen urges other HIV-positive stars to come forward and lift stigma?

2,234 people have been infected with HIV during blood transfusion in 17 months in India

When life-saving blood kills

A 'ritual' of paid sex in Malawi is believed to train girls to become good wives. But it is blamed for spread of AIDS

Malawi orders arrest of man paid to have sex with children

In South Africa, 7 million people live with HIV and older men are responsible for the shockingly high rate of infections among young women

'Sugar daddies' threaten fight against HIV

New infections have plateaued for the past 10 years after a steep dip from the peak rate of 3.3 million in 1997

2.5 million people suffer from HIV every year

WHO blasted the leak as an infringement of patients rights and warned it could deter people from getting tested for HIV

WHO labels leak of HIV carriers' identities' in China as 'violation of rights'

UNICEF: AIDS-related deaths among people aged between 15 and 19 have more than doubled since 2000

HIV, AIDS top killers of African adolescents

The 8x12-inch Swasthya Slate hooks up to Android phones and tablets, and is able to conduct 33 medical tests, including those for dengue, malaria, HIV, and even ECGs, in under a minute

Delhi makes health check-ups easy with Swasthya Slate ? its one-stop medical test kit

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