Female condom yet to gain acceptability
September 11th, 2012 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 11 (IANS) The female condom has not gained the kind of social acceptability in India it should have been six years after its launch but efforts are underway ... Read more...
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Female condom fails to gain popularity
July 3rd, 2012 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 3 (IANS) The female condom manufactured by HLL Lifecare Limited (HLL) appears to have not gained wide acceptability in the country, sales figures show. Only 38,000 pieces were ... Read more...
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Eyeing small town India, subsidised condom set to be trendier
June 25th, 2012 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Deluxe Nirodh, a subsidised condom that originally began as a family planning measure under a government initiative, is now eyeing smaller cities and towns to ... Read more...
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‘Domestic funding enough to take AIDS programme ahead’
May 9th, 2012 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) As global fund donors pull out from India's next AIDS control programme (2012-2017), the chief of the coveted Gates Foundation-led Avahan project Wednesday said the ... Read more...
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Scale up services for pregnant HIV-positive: UNAIDS
April 26th, 2012 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) As India's AIDS control department is working on its next AIDS control mission (2012-17), a top UN official Thursday said the country must scale up ... Read more...
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This time, Rongali Bihu to spread AIDS awareness
April 13th, 2012 - 1:10 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 13 (IANS) Rongali Bihu, the most popular festival of Assam that will be celebrated this weekend, will see some leading singers and performers help generate awareness about HIV/AIDS ... Read more...
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‘India’s AIDS control mission a successful model’
February 6th, 2012 - 6:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) In existence for nearly two decades, India's HIV-AIDS control mission has been the most successful global model to deal with the disease, the head of ... Read more...
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No Red Ribbon Express in Delhi on World AIDS Day
December 1st, 2011 - 8:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) In a departure from tradition, the Red Ribbon Express, a special train which travels across the country to spread awareness on HIV/AIDS, gave the capital ... Read more...
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Activists, patients protest delay in tabling AIDS bill
November 22nd, 2011 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Around 200 people, including homosexuals, eunuchs and families of those living with HIV/AIDS, protested outside the health ministry here Tuesday to press for early passage ... Read more...
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Sexually transmitted infections drop in Tamil Nadu: Survey
November 4th, 2011 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has observed a sharp decline from 25 percent to 6 percent over a period of 8 years in ... Read more...
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India close to eliminating syphilis: NACO
November 2nd, 2011 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) India is close to eradicating syphilis, one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) said Wednesday."There has been ... Read more...
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Watch out for sexually transmitted ’superbug’: Expert
November 1st, 2011 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) While the controversy over a 'superbug' in Delhi hospitals has not died down yet, an expert here Tuesday popped a warning against a sexually transmitted ... Read more...
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Lack of syringes hits Himachal’s HIV tests
October 13th, 2011 - 3:27 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Oct 13 (IANS) 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 ... Read more...
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Running short, Himachal borrows condoms from Punjab
July 13th, 2011 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, July 13 (IANS) For six months, Himachal Pradesh has had no condom in its stocks meant for free distribution among AIDS high-risk groups and for ensuring birth control. So, ... Read more...
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MSM is unnatural: Ghulam Nabi Azad
July 4th, 2011 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Men having sex with men (MSM) is "unnatural", Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Monday, a comment that is likely to raise the hackles ... Read more...
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Introduce HIV/AIDS bill in parliament, demand affected people
July 4th, 2011 - 6:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Around 200 HIV-positive people staged a protest in the capital Monday demanding that a bill to protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS be ... Read more...
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Community groups meet for AIDS control in northeast
June 10th, 2011 - 1:16 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Members of the civil society and community groups from the northeast met Thursday to prepare recommendations for the fourth phase of the National AIDS ... Read more...
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New AIDS cases in India drop by 50 percent
April 1st, 2011 - 11:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) India, home to the world's third largest AIDS population, has registered a 50 percent dip in the number of new cases registered annually, according to ... Read more...
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AIDS welfare cost may effect growth: Report
April 1st, 2011 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) Even as India has recorded a drop in the number of infections, a new report on HIV/AIDS by UNAIDS warns that the epidemic, if not ... Read more...
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Advanced HIV treatment is free for all, apex court told
December 16th, 2010 - 11:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it will provide free the second line of treatment to all the HIV patients even if their initial treatment ... Read more...
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Bruni meets AIDS patients, dazzles Delhi (Second Lead)
December 6th, 2010 - 11:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) The glamorous French First Lady Carla Bruni had a different kind of day out in Delhi Monday as she interacted with HIV positive patients and counsellors at ... Read more...
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Happy Birthday Carla Aunty
December 6th, 2010 - 7:28 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Dec.6 (ANI): Her birthday falls on the 23rd of December, but little children today at the Naz Foundation serenaded the French First Lady.Some twenty HIV positive children, aged ... Read more...
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Focus on states with low AIDS prevalence, high vulnerability: Azad (Second Lead)
December 2nd, 2010 - 12:59 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) As World AIDS Day was observed Dec 1, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad called for focusing, under the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), on states with low ... Read more...
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Third Red Ribbon Express to spread AIDS awareness planned (Lead)
December 1st, 2010 - 9:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) The second Red Ribbon Express, after criss-crossing the country, concluded its AIDS awareness journey in the capital Wednesday to mark World AIDS Day. The government said it ... Read more...
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Red Ribbon Express arrives in Delhi
November 29th, 2010 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Red Ribbon Express arrived in the capital Monday, a year after its journey around the country to spread awareness about AIDS and other diseases.Delhi Health Minister ... Read more...
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For these HIV kids, life is all questions, no answers (Nov 14 is Children’s Day)
November 13th, 2010 - 6:13 pm ICT by IANS
By Anjali Ojha
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) They are chirpy, confident and full of the energy - like all children are - but for one difference. They are HIV-positive, and some are ... Read more...
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Blood donation bus launched in Haryana
November 8th, 2010 - 8:48 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Nov 8 (IANS) Haryana launched a state-of-the-art mobile blood donation unit Monday, with Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda driving the air-conditioned bus for a short distance to inaugurate its operations."This is ... Read more...
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‘Need more funds from India for fight against HIV’
September 10th, 2010 - 1:15 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) A global agency has sought more money from India for antiretroviral treatment of HIV patients across the world.
"We are looking at India from the perspective of donor ... Read more...
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Lakhs counselled on AIDS, says Azad
August 25th, 2010 - 9:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) A total of 143 lakh people have been counselled on HIV/AIDS, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Wednesday.
The minister was speaking at a meeting of the Parliamentary ... Read more...
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S.Y. Quraishi is new chief election commissioner (Second Lead)
July 28th, 2010 - 12:11 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Shahbuddin Yaqoob Quraishi was Tuesday appointed by President Pratibha Patil as the new Chief Election Commissioner, officials said.
Quraishi, who is currently working as one of the ... Read more...
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S.Y. Quraishi is new chief election commissioner (Lead)
July 27th, 2010 - 11:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Shahbuddin Yaqoob Quraishi was Tuesday appointed by President Partibha Patil as the new Chief Election Commissioner, officials said.
Quraishi, who is currently working as one of the two ... Read more...
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Red Ribbon Express: On track to good health
July 15th, 2010 - 2:14 pm ICT by admin
By Anjali Singh - Citizen News Service (CNS)It's called the express of hope. After completing a successful run through 100 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu educating and sensitizing over ... Read more...
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Government must reinstate us, say sacked AIDS workers
June 16th, 2010 - 12:48 pm ICT by ANI
Ludhiana, June 16 (ANI): Lashing out against the government's decision to sack them, AIDS outreach workers staged a highly charged agitation here on Tuesday.Demanding that the government immediately reinstate them, the outraged ... Read more...
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Azad emphasizes need for achieving 100 percent voluntary blood donation
June 14th, 2010 - 5:34 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, June 14 (ANI): Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday emphasized the need for achieving 100 percent voluntary blood donation, thereby ensuring that there is ... Read more...
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In Tripura, blood donation is a movement (June 14 is World Blood Donors Day)
June 14th, 2010 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
By Sujit Chakraborty
Agartala, June 14 (IANS) What started as a bid to save the life of his friend, turned into a cause for Nanigopal Ghosh, who has donated blood 71 times since ... Read more...
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