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Desperate acts by Goa’s HIV+
PANAJI: The tragedy is not that they are dying, but that they want to die so that they can live. Already living desultory lives, shunned by society and suffering terribly, many HIV positive individuals are prepared to get sicker, and all for just a thousand rupees.
Since the state finance minister announced Rs 1000 a month to those put on antiretroviral treatment (ART), HIV positive persons are looking at this financial bonanza as a way out of their financial straits.
Preetu Nair, for Times of India. -
Govt to club AIDS, TB-control drives
NEW DELHI: Tuberculosis is the biggest killer of HIV patients in India. According to the National AIDS Control Organisation (Naco), over 60% of HIV patients contract and ultimately die of TB.
Faced with this double blow, India has now integrated the national AIDS and TB control programmes and is all set to launch a unique package under which all patients diagnosed with TB will be offered free HIV testing in the country's 4,567 Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTC).
Kounteya Sinha for Times of India. -
“Women’s empowerment key to ending AIDS epidemic”: Q + A with Dr Geeta Rao Gupta
Dr Geeta Rao Gupta, president, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), who addressed a conference on AIDS in Delhi, tells Business Standard that work on AIDS does not limit work on women.
From Business Standard. -
Soon, pvt nursing homes may open doors to HIV positive pregnant women
Mumbai, June 11 - Doctors and nurses will be trained to adminster drug nevirapine to minimise chances of mother-to-child transmission
If everything goes according to plan, private nursing homes and maternity homes will soon open their doors to HIV-positive pregnant women.
The Mumbai District Aids Control Society (MDACS) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are kickstarting efforts to identify and motivate private nursing homes to conduct such deliveries, in an attempt to prevent mother-to-child transmission wherever possible.
Jinal Shah, from Indian Express. -
Open Space presents My Mother, The Gharwali, Her Maalak, His Wife, a play about sex workers, performed by sex workers
Monday, June 16, 2008, 5.30pm to 8.00pm, at Bal Gandharva Rangamandir, Off J.M.Road, Pune
Leena is a woman in prostitution. Leena is also a woman in love with her rickshaw-driver prince, who is suddenly talking about riding off into the sunset – alone. Unless, of course, Leena helps him buy a spanking new rickshaw by giving him a loan of Rs.25, 000. She waits for her lover, and she waits on her customer. Outside in the lane, the arrival of a goonda (thug) causes a flutter. The cop who chases him away is also chasing a man who lives in the same galli…….
'My Mother, The Gharwali, Her Maalak, His Wife ' is a theatre production that looks at 24 hours in the lives of the people who live in or pass through the galli (street) in which Leena lives. Hear them tell their own stories and re-imagine their own realities. Meet the usual suspects – the paanpattiwala, the goonda, the children, the regulars. See them as they are. Get involved in their lives – feel overjoyed, indignant, angry, sad and make merry with them. Just remember, what happens here in these 24 hours, happens in their galli everyday. The play is performed by women in prostitution and their kin. -
HIV+ man gave blood 9 times
By Akshaya Kumar Sahoo, Bhubaneswar
June 5: An HIV-positive man, taking advantage of the negligence of blood bank officials in the Bolangir district headquarters hospital, has donated blood at least nine times. It is apprehended that many of the beneficiaries, who received infected blood, might have already contracted the disease.
From Lokmat Times, Nagpur. -
Tata Steel bags award on AIDS work
Jamshedpur, June 1: Tata Steel was awarded the TERI Corporate Award for its initiatives for HIV/AIDS.
The award was given away by Union minister of commerce and industry Kamal Nath at a function held in New Delhi last evening. The award was given in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), an international co-operation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, to recognise and mainstream corporate leadership for HIV/AIDS intervention.
From The Telegraph, Calcutta. -
HIV centre in TN gave ‘expired’ pills to 60 patients
THANJAVUR: An anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centre at the Thanjavur medical college has given expired drugs to at least 60 people living with HIV/AIDS. While experts say it isn’t dangerous to take such drugs after the expiry date, some HIV positive people have complained of itching, vomiting and giddiness.
From Times of India. -
HIV infected woman struggles to make two ends meet
Panjim : She met him when he first time came over to her place with her brother as a guest, and she eventually developed a soft corner for this unknown man …this was love! After a couple of meetings, both decided to tie the knot. The girl's family too approved the relationship.
Beena (name changed to protect identity), resident of Pernem north Goa fell in love with a migrant 'cook' working at a hotel in Goa and had married him six years ago and were even blessed with a son, a year after their marriage.
Beena's joy was short lived. A few years later, the couple tested HIV+. Beena recalled how her husband's health started deteriorating and after several tests for various ailments, he tested positive for HIV. Her world of dreams came crashing down when she too tested positive. A silver lining in the dark cloud however was their son tested HIV negative.
From Gomantak Times, Goa.
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