Regional Joint Director of Medical and Health Mohan Rao on Friday called for measures to create awareness among the youth in order to check HIV/AIDS.Addressing master trainers on AIDS prevention at a programme organised by the District AIDS Control Council and forming of Red Ribbon Clubs at the Collectorate Sabha Bhavan, he said 31 per cent of AIDS victims were between 15 and 29 years of age and constituted...
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Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateA medical aid group says funding for AIDS is threatened, and that could set back "dramatic" progress in decreasing HIV illness and death.Medecins Sans Frontieres officials said at a news conference Thursday that the global recession and calls to commit funds to other health crises has hurt the fight against AIDS. The...
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Five Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres for HIV/AIDS offering tests and treatment will be opened in five private hospitals in Udupi, district AIDS control officer H. Ashok Kumar said.Speaking at the inauguration of the Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre at the Dr. A.V. Baliga Memorial Hospital organised by the hospital and the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society on Tuesday, Dr. Kumar...
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Altogether 65 new patients infected with deadly disease of AIDS have been identified in the district.According to a recent survey 2008-09 of the State AIDS Control Society, Balrampur has 65 new patients of AIDS while in Gonda district the number of new AIDS patients is 48, in Shravasti 53 and in Bahraich 36....
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SRIKAKULAM: The need for dispelling certain misconceptions about AIDS and explain to people the difference between AIDS and HIV was stressed by Resident Medical Officer of Rajiv Institute of Medical Sciences G. Narisinga Rao. Speaking at an AIDS control programme organised by the Youth Club of Bejjipuram and other voluntary organisations here on Wednesday, Dr. Rao said AIDS patients must be permitted...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today directed the officials to launch a renewed intensive campaign in the State to make people aware of the seriousness of HIV/AIDS.Mr Rosaiah reviewed the issues, activities and efforts being made for prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in the state by the A P State AIDS Control Society.The Chief Minister said AIDS had to be wiped out from the state with a systematic...
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Mysore-based Asha Kirana Hospital and Centre for HIV Care will organise a two-day India-International Paediatric AIDS Conference (IND-IPAC) from November 21 at the International Leadership Auditorium (ILA) on the Infosys campus.Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will participate in the conference as chief patron.According to S.N. Moti, paediatrician and head of Asha Kirana, the conference aims at bringing...
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Vision India organised a public hearing for people living with HIV/AIDS at YMCA here on Thursday to highlight the general discrimination faced by these people, particularly in terms of access to public health care facilities, individual property rights and related issues that violate human rights. It was also aimed at sensitising policy-makers and civil society about the discrimination faced by people...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today directed the officials to launch a renewed intensive campaign in the State to make people aware of the seriousness of HIV/AIDS. Mr Rosaiah reviewed the issues, activities and efforts being made for prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in the state by the A P State AIDS Control Society. The Chief Minister said AIDS had to be wiped out from the state with a...
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Financial Times To Launch Special Report On 'Combating AIDS' With Contribution To Global Business Coalition.' The supplement will be distributed in all global editions of the FT on Tuesday 1st December 2009, to coincide with World AIDS Day.Following the success of the FT special report on 'Combating Malaria,' published in April 2009, 'Combating AIDS' is the second in a series of FT reports on major...
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