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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Indian sex workers to video connect with world AIDS meet in US
July 5th, 2012 - 7:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Sex workers from various parts of the country will gather in Kolkata to connect through video conferencing to the International AIDS Conference in the ... 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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Health ministry wary of merging AIDS department with NRHM
May 3rd, 2012 - 3:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Planning Commission's proposal to merge the two-decade-old AIDS control department with the flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has caused a stir in the ... Read more...
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‘NACO merger with NRHM not insensitive’
April 27th, 2012 - 11:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The convergence of India's AIDS control mission with the government's flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is not going to be insensitive for the communities ... 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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‘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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61 HIV infected kids forced out of schools
December 2nd, 2011 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) A total of 61 HIV-infected children were forced out of schools in seven states in the last three years and the current year, the Rajya ... 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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India to avert 3 million HIV cases: World Bank
November 30th, 2011 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) India is expected to avert 3 million new HIV infections during the period 1995-2015 by using targeted interventions among vulnerable groups, according to a World ... Read more...
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India undeterred by global donors’ pullout for AIDS control (Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)
November 30th, 2011 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The battle against the deadly HIV-AIDS will not weaken even as some of the major global funding bodies aim to pull out of India's fourth ... Read more...
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Sexual minorities fight AIDS with peer group’s help (Feature, Dec 1 is World AIDS Day)
November 30th, 2011 - 4:03 pm ICT by IANS
Belgaum (Karnataka), Nov 30 (IANS) In a dark room in Belgaum district, they sit together looking comfortable. They are in an office and are not even distantly related. But, as ... 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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Integrate Hepatitis C testing with HIV: NGOs
October 21st, 2011 - 9:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) With over 13 million cases of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in India, NGOs Friday urged the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to include testing and ... Read more...
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Spreading AIDS awareness through music
October 15th, 2011 - 11:43 pm ICT by IANS
Dimapur (Nagaland), Oct 15 (IANS) Appealing to youths to be careful about diseases like AIDS and asking them to stay away from drugs, well-known musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Saturday said ... 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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‘Firms should create AIDS awareness among workers’
July 28th, 2011 - 12:30 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Sankalp project, a government initiative for tackling the spread of HIV/AIDS, Wednesday said that industries need to focus on increasing awareness among workers about 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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Homosexuality no disease, India must include MSM: UNAIDS
July 5th, 2011 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis of a person's sexual orientation, UNAIDS emphasised Tuesday, a day ... Read more...
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HIV-AIDS prevention tops India’s agenda, says minister (Lead)
July 4th, 2011 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Awareness of prevention of HIV-AIDS, utilisation of funds received from international and country-based donors and countering the taboo and stigma associated with the incidence ... 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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Bring transparency in AIDS programme: Civil society
May 17th, 2011 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) A civil society delegation which met National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) officials, Tuesday recommended that it put in place a transparent policy framework in planning ... Read more...
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‘Community feedback must in India’s AIDS programme’
May 5th, 2011 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+), an umbrella body of HIV-positive people in the capital, Thursday said it was important to have the community's ... 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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Scriptures to help fight HIV-AIDS
March 12th, 2011 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, March 12 (IANS) Help of religious scriptures is being sought at a two-day meeting here to end discrimination against people with HIV and AIDS and create awareness to contain ... 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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