Can we find cure to these scourges?

Vatsala Vedantam

Eradication of HIV must be the priority, if we are to eradicate TB as well in the country.

It is a strange contradiction that while India celebrates being home to the world’s leading corporate giants and wealthiest persons, …

Finding Balance

Shruti Nambiar
Posted: Mon Oct 31 2011, 00:59 hrs

Santulan de-addiction centre has been running a successful dabba service operated by recovering addicts. It will soon open a free clinic to provide them counselling and medication

Javed Pathan was a …

Interesting Article about the History of HIV/AIDS

Chimp to Man to History Books: The Path of AIDS

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: October 17, 2011

Our story begins sometime close to 1921, somewhere between the Sanaga River in Cameroon and the Congo River in the former …

Maharashtra launches multi-pronged drive to curb HIV-AIDS

Pune, September 17, 2011

A staggering number of around one lakh HIV-AIDS positive people are availing the anti-retro viral therapy (ART) in government medical facilities of Maharashtra, which is the number two state in the country in prevalence of the …

Non-hijra transgenders struggle for identity

Published: Sunday, Sep 18, 2011, 10:00 IST
By Gee Ameena Suleiman | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

Hijra isn’t the only transgender identity. There are others, such as female-to-male transgenders, who don’t draw attention to themselves, and struggle to find …

Overcoming barriers through technology

Can technology help surmount the major barriers to effective learning of HIV/AIDS — cultural and sociological?

This question took founder and CEO of TeachAIDS Piya Sorcar, …

Risk of HIV transmission high in Rajasthan: WHO

TNN Sep 9, 2011, 03.06am IST

HIV +ve kids left without care, support as AIDS Body funds dry up

NAGPUR: Several city children, whose lives were marred by a black mark called AIDS, used to get love, care and support from some loving ‘sisters’. The love and care continues to come their way, but the support has been withdrawn …

‘My daughter may not live, we should save others’

Posted: Mon Sep 12 2011, 01:57 hrs

Junagadh, Ahmedabad:

It’s been just over a month since his four-year-old thalassemic daughter tested HIV-positive. A month during which Salim Sheikh, 33, found out that 23 of the 103 thalassemic children …