HIV & AIDS (Prevention & Control) Act, 2017

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017, came into force on September 10, 2018.

  • It aims to prevent and control the spread of HIV and AIDS in the country and provides for penalties for discrimination against those affected by the virus.
  • The Act safeguards rights of people living with HIV and affected by HIV.
  • It also addresses HIV-related discrimination, strengthen existing programme by bringing in legal accountability and establish formal mechanisms for inquiring into complaints and redressing grievances.

Institutions

Name

Research Areas

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu and Kashmir
  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Natural products chemistry (plants & microbes)
  • Pharmacology (Cancer, Inflammation, Immunomodulation)

Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • Comparative effectiveness and outcomes research
  • Clinical research methodology
  • Cancer registries
  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Molecular epidemiology
  • Mutational genotyping of solid tumours
  • Clinical pharmacology
  • Tumor immunology
  • Sequencing and bioinformatics
  • Protein interactions
  • Stem cell biology
  • Circulating tumour cell technology
  • Radiation oncology

National Institute of
Virology, Pune
  • Epidemiology
  • Basic virology diagnostics
  • Molecular evolution
  • Immunology and pathogenesis for viruses of public health importance, viz. Influenza, Avian Influenza, Hepatitis A, B, C, E, Rotavirus, Enteroviruses, Japanese Encephalitis, Dengue and Measles (excluding HIV)

Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar
  • Infectious disease
  • Immune biology
  • Cancer biology

National Centre for Disease Control, New Delhi
  • Virology
  • Molecular diagnostics in communicable diseases

Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
  • Drug discovery & development
  • Cancer & related areas
  • CNS/CVS & other disorders
  • Malaria & other parasitic diseases
  • Reproductive health
  • Diabetes & energy metabolism
  • Tuberculosis & microbial infections
  • Safety & clinical development

National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
  • Infection and immunity
  • Molecular design
  • Gene regulation and reproduction and development

National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad
  • Risk analysis of mycotoxins, safety assessment of GM foods and development of analytical methods and protocols for their detection
  • Evolving prevention strategies for mould and mycotoxin contamination

Regional Medical Research Centre, Dollygunj, Port Blair
  • Leptospirosis, diarrhoeal diseases
  • Viral hepatitis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Lymphatic filariasis and other vector borne diseases including Chikungunya
  • Malaria and other health problems of the indigenous tribes of these Islands
  • Research on chronic non-communicable diseases including diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases as well as on psycho-social issues including alcoholism and post-traumatic stress syndrome triggered by natural calamities such as earthquake and tsunami
  • Collection and collation of information on traditional medicine/folk lore practices of the aborigines on medicinal plants and sea weeds and their medicinal properties

Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC), Gurgaon
  • Cardio metabolic surveillance study
  • Genetic research
  • Epidemiology

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