Raipur, Dec 1 (IANS) Chhattisgarh has about 5,000 AIDS patients, the government said Tuesday announcing plans to set up 100 testing and counselling centres for detecting people living with the HIV/AIDS virus.
The AIDS testing centres will be set up in all the 18 districts of the state by next year, a senior health department official [...]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 16 (IANS) The Orissa government Friday announced that a new list of people below poverty line (BPL) will be prepared by January 2010 and will include HIV and AIDS patients, physically handicapped people and backward tribes.
‘We have asked all district collectors to see that the deserving people don’t get omitted from the new [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 16 (IANS) Kerala has 10,491 HIV/AIDS patients, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathi said Wednesday.
‘This is the figure as of July 31,’ Sreemathi told the state assembly.
She said Palakkad district, with 1,650 patients, had the highest number of HIV/AIDS cases followed by Thrissur (1,449) and Thiruvananthapuram (1,267). Waynad (142) had least number.
India has nearly 2.5 [...]
Allahabad (UP), Aug 28 (ANI): An eight-year-old child and his siblings carrying HIV positive virus were denied admission to a school in Belamundi, roughly 50 km from here.
Along with him, two of his siblings were also refused admission.
According to the school’s principal, he was forced by parents of [...]
