Full Coverage: AIDS

30.11.2005 Starting with next school year, the pupils in Montenegro elementary schools will be introduced to a new subject in the Curriculum, called “Healthy lifestyles”. This initiative was launched by Montenegrin organisation for combating HIV/AIDS – CAZAS. Yesterday, CAZAS representatives announced the completion of the first phase of the project “Healthy lifestyles against drug abuse”.

30.11.2005 In 2003 President Bush announced a 5-year, $15 billion initiative to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, yet restrictions attached to how those funds may be used are limiting their effectiveness, says Population Action International.

30.11.2005 Barbershops in Jaipur city are doing something more than just haircut. Guess what? They are giving tips to their customers as to how they can prevent themselves from getting the infection.

30.11.2005 Nearly 90 percent of AIDS-related deaths occur among people of working age, making it the leading cause of death worldwide for people ages 15-49. The seven most seriously AIDS-affected countries, all in sub-Saharan Africa, now lose as much as 10-18 percent of their working-age adults every five years, mainly to this disease.

29.11.2005 The “Life is What You Make Of It” campaign was designed by the HIV Prevention Network to mark December 1, the International AIDS Day, in several cities and municipalities in Serbia.

29.11.2005 In many countries with high HIV rates, women do not have the power in sexual relationships to deny sex; in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, three-fourths of young people infected with HIV are women. As a result, methods of prevention controlled by women are crucial tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

29.11.2005 Students of Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia in the Capital now have the option of finding out their HIV/AIDS status within the confines of the university clinic where all the data would be kept confidential.

28.11.2005 Ahead of World Aids Day on 1 December, African governments are urged to strengthen health care systems - including more health workers - to cope with the epidemic, particularly the administration of ARVs.

28.11.2005 India is fast becoming home to a large number of children affected with HIV/AIDS, but there is hope of a longer life for them, according to a study published in this weekÂ’s issue of Lancet, the reputed medical journal.According to the study conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, US, adequate zinc levels are essential for growth and to enhance immunity in children who test positive for HIV.

28.11.2005 Using mobile mania that has gripped the country to do more than just connect people, ZQM Software Systems in the Capital is all set to tackle one of the biggest hurdles in checking transmission of AIDS -- lack of general awareness -- through fun and games. It will launch four mobile phone games on World AIDS Day, December 1, under the banner of "Freedom from AIDS/ HIV".

24.11.2005 In a stealth move intended to draw little public notice, the Bush Administration has formally expanded the Global Gag Rule to U.S. global AIDS funding under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

23.11.2005 According to the studies of the Public Health Institute (PHI), six homosexuals and two persons from the Roma community were infected with HIV/AIDS in 2005.

23.11.2005 India may be a major exporter of anti-retroviral drugs but barely 30,000 people are actually on medication in this country which itself has a burden of five million HIV positive cases.

23.11.2005 India may be a major exporter of anti-retroviral(ARV)drugs but barely 30,000 people are actually on medication in this country which itself has a burden of five million HIV positive cases. Read this story from Inter Press Service

22.11.2005 NEW DELHI, Monday (AFP) Progress has been made in tackling HIV infection in key African countries, but five million people were infected across the world in 2005 taking the total beyond a record 40 million, a UN report said Monday.

22.11.2005 Women are increasingly at greater risk of contacting HIV infection in India, warns UNAIDS. A significant proportion of new infections is occurring in women who are married and who have been infected by husbands who frequent sex workers.

21.11.2005 * The number of people living with HIV has reached its highest level: 40.3 million
* Almost 5 million people were newly infected in 2005
* Treatment is not being delivered fast enough to contain the epidemic
* Some countries, including Pakistan and Indonesia, could be on the verge of serious epidemics
* There is also good news - evidence that interventions can work - from parts of Brazil, Cambodia, Kenya, Spain, Thailand, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
The annual AIDS Epidemic Update reports on the latest developments.
+ Watching rich countries to see if they deliver on Aids promises

19.11.2005 Thailand’s “condom king,” Mechai Viravaidya, has been employing innovative means to tackle population growth, poverty, environmental conservation, and sexual health issues in Thailand for over twenty years. He recently discussed key public health strategies with students at American University in Washington, D.C.

17.11.2005 In South Africa, where approximately 1 in 5 people are HIV-infected, affected households borrow 40% less than those that are not affected by the disease.
Stigma attached to HIV/AIDS and financial pressures for people with the disease makes it all the more important that they have equal access to credit.

16.11.2005 District Level Communication Campaign on HIV that is launch from Coimbatore districtof Tamil Nadu.Workers of NGOs will visit high-risk individuals during this door-to-door campaign, chat with them and educate them on HIV, which has infected an estimated six million people in the country. Truckers, migrant labour population, commercial sex workers and their partners, pregnant mothers and hidden groups come under the high-risk category.