Full Coverage: AIDS

30.08.2006 The Indian governmentÂ’s AIDS awareness drive has clearly not made its mark on the lawmakers themselves, reveals a new survey of parliamentarians. Although 95% of them knew about the existence of HIV/AIDS, most were unaware about how HIV is transmitted

28.08.2006 Akande Adebowale attended the recent Toronto conference and concludes that, amongst the many reservations about the worldÂ’s handling of the AIDS crisis, there are some hopeful signs

28.08.2006 The main message the Conference delivered may be that in spite of the progress over the last 25 years, there was no room for complacency. It is time to deliver! There are almost 40 million people living with HIV, including 24.5 million in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005, 2.8 million people died of AIDS.

25.08.2006

AIDS

Although Sri Lanka is categorised as a low HIV/ AIDS prevalence country, its geographical positioning makes it a future ‘high risk’ nation that may see an AIDS epidemic in the future says Dr. Sujatha Samarakoon,Venereologist and National STD/ AIDS Control Programme.

24.08.2006

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Madhya Pradesh is forming a network of youth, called the Red Ribbon Clubs, to spread awareness on HIV/AIDS as part of the stateÂ’s strategy to overcome the deadly disease that has affected 1,806 people so far.

24.08.2006 Extending the much-needed helping hand to HIV-infected women and commercial sex workers who wanted to turn a new leaf, the AP Women's Co-operative Finance Corporation launched a training programme in auto-rickshaw driving for them.

24.08.2006 In a bold move India is backing moves to promote a national needle exchange and drug substitution programme for intravenous drug users in order to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS in this high-risk and vulnerable group.

23.08.2006 International Labour Organisation (ILO) in association with the Foreign Employment Bureau OF Sri Lanka will take steps to educate prospective migrants on how to resist from HIV/AIDS, a deadly disease, shortly, ILO Co-ordinating Officer Dr. Indra Hettiarachchi said recently.

23.08.2006 HIV infection is the most devastating new disease to have emerged in recent history. Although, worldwide, approximately as many women as men suffer from HIV, this aggregate figure conceals marked differences in the implications of the disease for men and women. Some of these result from biological differences in sex between men and women, but more result from socially defined gender differences.

22.08.2006 The Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society delivers the means for safe sex along with the morning news as part of the stateÂ’s AIDS campaign that has always found unique ways to promote condom use

21.08.2006 Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL), announced that the company has received approval to manufacture and market Triviro-LNS kid and Triviro-LNS kid DS, both triple ARV combinations for children, in India. The company has also filed the product with WHO Geneva for pre-qualification.

21.08.2006 The actual number of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in India might be a third lower than the present estimate of 5.2 million, according to a new population-based study by Indian researchers.

18.08.2006

AIDS

The promise of new vaccines and more effective prevention programmes will fail to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS unless fear and social stigma can also be eliminated -- including among those living with the disease, experts say at XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto Canada held on 13-18 Aug. 2006.

11.08.2006 NEW YORK, Aug 11 (OneWorld) - The world's wealthiest nations have come under scathing criticism for their inaction after billionaire Bill Gates made a new pledge this week to spend $500 million on the global fight against HIV and AIDS.

10.08.2006 There is still widespread ignorance about AIDS in rural UP and poor health services have made the situation worse.

09.08.2006 AIDS might spell a loss of over 16 million lives in India over the next 20 years. This is the estimate put out in a recent report prepared by the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner on future population trends in India.

09.08.2006 The Rashtriya Shikshan Mandal (RSM) and the Ayurved Rasshala (AR), India will be preparing a special ayurvedic herbal medicine that will be standardised and tested to increase the CD4 count levels of 50-odd HIV infected children of Manavya Sanstha, at Bhugaon, Pune.

08.08.2006 Local leaders from across rural India are to draw up an action plan to help stem the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in villages, where the majority of new infections are occuring, officials said on Monday.

04.08.2006 Six non governmental organizations working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention in India has formed a National Group on Vaccine Initiatives- (NGVI) to develop and test AIDS Vaccines in India, by increasing community understanding and participation in the AIDS vaccine programme.

03.08.2006 Only mothers suffering from T.B., cancer and AIDS (also HIV positive) should not breast-feed babies, said ICDS Project Officer (CD) K. Tanuja said.