New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Sex workers, homosexuals, drug users, transgenders, and core group of young truck drivers and helpers Tuesday came together in the capital to share their experiences on sexuality and how to reduce the risk of HIV and AIDS.
The ‘at-risk communities’ interacted with each other during a one-day festival hosted by the [...]
Veteran rapper KEITH MURRAY is taking time out of his tour of Africa to visit children affected by HIV and AIDS in Mozambique.
The hip-hop star travelled to Africa earlier this week (begs30Nov09) and has lined up a number of charity events in recognition of World AIDS Day, which took place on Tuesday (01Dec09).
As [...]
Bangalore, Dec 1 (IANS) Karnataka has become the first state in India to have a charter on the rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The charter was released here Tuesday by state Health Minister B. Sriramulu on the occasion of World AIDS Day.
‘Karnataka became the first state in the country to have a charter [...]
London, Dec 1 (ANI): Singer Bono has teamed up with footie idol Didier Drogba to raise funds for fight against Aids.
The U2 frontman said he aims to “turn up the heat” on politicians over the HIV and Aids crisis in South Africa.
Chelsea striker Drogba declared that saving lives [...]
Guwahati, Nov 30 (IANS) Lack of access to medicines and ignorance about the disease are the twin challenges being faced by people living with HIV and AIDS in India’s northeast, where around 45,000 people are HIV positive, health experts said here Monday.
About 9,000 of the 45,000 people living with HIV have developed AIDS.
‘Just take [...]
Washington, Nov 28 (ANI): A new study has shown that HIV positive mothers receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) while breastfeeding are less likely to transmit the virus to their kids.
Although formula feeding has been the recommended strategy for preventing postnatal HIV transmission in developed countries for many years, researchers have recognized that this intervention [...]
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) A bill to protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS
will be tabled in the next session of parliament, Oscar Fernandes, chairman of the parliamentary forum for HIV and AIDS, said here Friday.
‘The consultation work on the bill has been expedited as it will be tabled in the next session [...]
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) The long pending legislation on HIV/AIDS that aims to protect the rights of people living with the disease, will be tabled in parliament in its next session, said Oscar Fernandes, chairman of the Parliamentary Forum for HIV and AIDS, Friday.
‘The consultation work on the bill has been expedited as we [...]
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The Indian government Friday came out with a national policy on HIV and AIDS at the workplace to address the stigma and discrimination faced by people afflicted with the disease and provide them support and care.
Announcing the policy, Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said: ‘HIV and AIDS are a major threat [...]
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 [...]
Gorakhpur, Oct 16 (ANI): The Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group, a voluntary organization, has started a massive AIDS and HIV awareness campaign in the Sardarganj and Campierganj areas of Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh.
The programme is aimed at residents who are unaware about HIV or AIDS, even as the disease spread in these parts is [...]
Mysore, Oct 12(ANI): A group of sex workers from different parts of Karnataka on Monday inaugurated an academy which is first of its kind in Asia Pacific to spread public awareness about HIV and AIDS.
The project has been initiated in collaboration with UNAIDS and Ashodaya Samiti, a Mysore based organization working for the health [...]
New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Indians don’t get much advice and information on sex, but they fully enjoy their sex lives, says a survey.
Among the 26 countries that were part of the online Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global survey, Mexicans are the most contented lot.
About 80 percent Mexicans agree that ‘there is enough advice and information [...]
Bangalore, Oct 12 (IANS) A group of sex workers from across Karnataka came together here Monday to inaugurate Ashodaya Academy, a regional centre on HIV and AIDS to be run by the sex workers themselves to fight the spread of the disease.
The academy is located in Mysore, nearly 150 km from here, and is said [...]
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Passing AIDS from mother to child is a human rights violation and soon all pregnant women in India will have to undergo a mandatory HIV test, the parliamentary forum on HIV and AIDS said Friday.
‘We want a HIV free generation. We are for testing all pregnant women for HIV so [...]
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) India’s largely poor and socially underprivileged tribals are about to get help in combating HIV and AIDS, a disease they are highly vulnerable to because of growing migration and lack of awareness.
‘The tribal population has become more vulnerable to HIV in the past few years. As they are down in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) On his first trip to India, the head of UNAIDS will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior ministers to emphasize India’s continued support against HIV and AIDS.
Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAIDS, will arrive Oct 7 in India and will also visit Mumbai and Bangalore.
‘The visit is to [...]
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) Over four million HIV positive people in low-and middle income countries received antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2008, a 36 percent jump over the previous year and a 10-fold increase over five years, said a new report released Wednesday.
The report, which was released in Geneva, was jointly launched by the World [...]
New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) As HIV infections among India’s rural women show an increasing trend, the government is reaching out to them to reduce their vulnerability to AIDS, targeting 40 districts identified across nine states.
‘There is an increasing prevalence of HIV among women, especially rural women. This is causing us concern,’ said K. Sujatha [...]
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) Gay activists and lawyers Thursday welcomed the government’s decision to leave it to the Supreme Court to arrive at a view on decriminalising homosexuality among consenting adults, saying the stance is not ‘negative’ or ‘against them.’
‘I feel that the government is not interfering. This is a good stand. It is [...]
