Full Coverage: AIDS

28.06.2006 "Youth take charge!" This was the clarion call given by the Indian government as Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat launched YUVA (Youth Unite for Victory on AIDS) in Delhi. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been the "most serious public health problem faced by the country since independence."

28.06.2006 With the first phase of the AIDS vaccine human trial being kicked off in the city, scientists involved in the trial are looking at absorbing more volunteers for the second such vaccine trial in the country.

23.06.2006 A workshop on ethical guidelines for reporting HIV and AIDS was organised by the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) in collaboration with UNICEF to educate the people about the disease.

22.06.2006 Families in Rachi, capital of Jharkhand state of India are now insisting on HIV tests ahead of marriages.Pathology labs in the city have registered an increase in the number of HIV tests, particularly during the marriage season.

20.06.2006 With a view to educate truckers about the prevention of AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) and other STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases), the Population Services International (PSI) in Bhopal has launched an intensive on-ground activity - 'Kaun Banega Sham Sitara' on National Highway Nos. 3 & 7 passing through Madhya Pradesh.

20.06.2006 For the first time in the country, experts from B J Medical College (BJMC) and NARI, in the western Indian state of Pune, have got together to study this threat and undertake cervical cancer screening for HIV-infected women.

15.06.2006 To create more awareness on HIV/AIDS, especially among the youth, UNICEF, in association with voluntary organisations, is training some young people to become peer educators.

15.06.2006 According to recent statistics from the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Clinic in Sri Lanka, there are currently 712 people in Sri Lanka living with HIV/AIDS.

14.06.2006 One fact went unnoticed in the UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic released last month: the figure of estimated AIDS deaths in India was over 4 lakh in 2005.This is the highest in the world—South Africa had an estimated figure of about 3.2 lakh for the same period.

13.06.2006 Sri Lanka's health ministryÂ’s HIV/AIDS Unit has arranged to conduct an effective awareness programme on HIV/AIDS to the newly elected members of the local bodies.

07.06.2006 Fighting AIDS is getting them big business. Shrinking the massive battle against HIV/AIDS to the tiny space of the mobile phone screen, ZMQ Software Systems, which had launched the "Freedom HIV/AIDS" Mobile Games on the awareness of the disease on December 1, 2005 - World AIDS Day -- has become the first Indian company to be honoured by Global Business Coalition.

06.06.2006 Despite the fact that India has overtaken South Africa as the country with the largest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS - approximately 5.7 million - the activities of Madhya Pradesh Aids Control Society (MPSACS) are on a downward curve particularly during the last two months.

05.06.2006 No dia 5 de junho de 1981, exames médicos realizados nos Estados Unidos revelaram o surgimento de uma nova doença. Os sintomas eram parecidos aos do câncer de pele e os doentes sofriam de pneumonia.

04.06.2006 UNITED NATIONS, June 3 (OneWorld) - Activists from more than 70 civil society groups from around the world have denounced the United Nations political declaration on HIV/AIDS released Friday at the end of a major international gathering.

02.06.2006 YUVA is Youth Unite for Victory against AIDS, a five-year government action plan to create awareness among 450 million youth and adolescents in the country about AIDS.

01.06.2006 United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan has criticised the lack of progress in combating HIV.He said the vast majority of countries had fallen "distressingly" short of meeting their targets.

01.06.2006 "States like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have the highest prevalence of HIV in India," says UNAIDS India chief Dr Dennis Broun. A study of prostitutes in Tamil Nadu found 50% of them had been infected with HIV.