The theme for World AIDS Days from 2011-2015 is ‘Getting to Zero’ – zero new infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. To achieve that we have to provide the proper facilities, treatment and services to the high risk HIV groups – intravenous drug users, sex workers and
November 30 2012, 1:48 pm
Read MoreAfter the identity of an HIV-infected member was disclosed in a letter sent by the state government a family of five has been socially ostracised in a Rajasthan village, a social activist said. The family, comprising an HIV-positive husband, his wife and three children, has been displaced from
December 14 2012, 7:22 pm
Read MoreUsha Desai, a sex worker in Maharashtra's Parbani district, has been successful in fighting AIDS, but it is the struggle against social exclusion and stigma related to the disease that has cost her more. The 40-year-old, live over 2.3 million other HIV/AIDS patients in India, feel that the real war
December 3 2012, 3:35 pm
Read MoreWorld AIDS Day is December 1. TeachAIDS has been universally feted for producing HIV/AIDS material that bypass the stigma of the disease and sex and provide life-saving tips. It has proved to be one of the most anti-HIV teaching aids and was adopted by the National AIDS Control Organisation as
November 30 2012, 3:45 pm
Read MoreBetter healthcare and increased awareness have helped control the spread of HIV/AIDS, once feared as an epidemic, according to doctors attending to AIDS victims at the Asha Kirana Hospital here, Karnataka's only specialised hospital for treating the disease that has 6,400 registered cases from the
November 30 2012, 2:50 pm
Read MoreCricket players from Australia and the West Indies have taken part in coaching clinics with local children in Barbados to raise awareness and reduce stigma about HIV and AIDS in cricket-playing countries.
April 7 2012, 2:11 pm
Read MoreSince the late 80s, no disease has quite gripped public imagination like HIV/AIDS. We tend to fear anything we do not understand or comprehend and before the human immunodeficiency virus was pinned down as the cause of AIDS there were a lot of misperceptions about the disease. Many believed that
December 24 2012, 9:12 am
Read MoreBeing tested HIV positive raises the probability of having AIDS. To be diagnosed with AIDS is to have death knocking on your door. The individual diagnosed with AIDS knows that the death sentence has been passed. It is a condition with no known cure yet. Of all the life-threatening illnesses that
May 21 2012, 7:47 am
Read MoreIn a dark room in Belgaum district, they sit together looking comfortable. They are in an office and are not even distantly related. But, as is often true of sexual minorities, the homosexuals and transgenders assembled here are as closely knit as biological families. Their biggest complaint is
May 4 2012, 3:29 pm
Read MoreThey sit on a mat in a modest building, innocent eyes wandering while a blackboard in the background reads "all is well". Parvati and Amar (names changed) are as talented and active as anyone else their age but have been discarded by their kin for being HIV positive. Parvati is a student of Class
May 4 2012, 3:29 pm
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