Speaker stresses on AIDS free society
Tamil Nadu assembly speaker D. Jayakumar on Thursday urged the members of public to visit the Red Ribbon express scheduled to arrive Chennai, this Sunday.
Stressing that society should ideally be fr
In a first, HIV+ patient gets his gullet replaced
Ravirajan had not eaten a morsel of food for five years. A person who loved to eat, it was like a death sentence, even worse than the fact that he had AIDS, when he realized he could only swallow milk
AIDS claimed 175 lives in one year in Punjab
A total of 175 people have succumbed to the dreaded AIDS in Punjab during the year 2011-2012.
These facts were revealed in the data supplied by the SMO Civil hospital.
The disease is spreading at a
Bruni in controversy over AIDS charity money paid to friend
French First Lady Carla Bruni has reportedly landed into a major controversy in the wake of allegations that she handed out AIDS charity money to one of her closest friends and to a foundation she run
Law soon to prevent discrimination against HIV patients: Azad
Government on Thursday pledged to bring a law soon to ensure that there is no discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients as Health Ministry is all set to initiate the process after receiving the draft
HIV patients spread scare in Kerala sub-jail
HIV positive prisoners are spreading a scare among other inmates in Mattanchery Sub-jail. Authorities are finding it hard to accommodate them in a separate cell.
Officials complain that the HIV posit
Lack of syringes hits Himachal's HIV tests
After condoms, it is now disposable syringes that are in short supply in Himachal Pradesh, severely hitting the state's AIDS control programme.
For over three months, the Himachal AIDS Control Societ
HIV project in India averted 100,000 infections: study
A scheme in six Indian states that concentrated safe-sex campaigns on a few niche groups prevented 100,000 HIV infections over five years, according to estimates published in The Lancet today.
The so
Aids stalks gay, transgender Indians
India's success in slashing HIV/AIDS infection rates by 50 per cent in the last decade masks a high rate of infection among homosexual and transgender people, experts say.
This anomaly was highlighte
HIV spreading among China's elderly: 80-year-old infected
A nearly 80-year-old man in China has been diagnosed with HIV, with doctors saying he got infected due to 'frequent unprotected sex'.
The case is the latest to support experts' opinion that the HIV v