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Why Men Buy Sex
Manjima Bhattacharjya (for Times of India) on the forces that send men to brothels...
It was the summer of 2001 and even though it was barely 8 am, the Rajasthan sun already had us breaking out in sweat. That day our team from JAGORI, a Delhi-based women's group, was visiting sex work stations along the national highway as part of a study. At our first host's home, a freshly bathed Hindu priest with bodhi and starched dhoti rode past us on a sputtering Bajaj. "Some puja?" we asked. Not quite, said our hosts, chuckling, just the first client of the day. -
No scheme to help children with HIV
NEW DELHI, April 20: The government admits it has no effective programme to address issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS affected orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the country. Apart from the HIV infected children, those who have been orphaned by AIDS need support and treatment as well.
Ajita Singh, for The Statesman. -
Poster boy of crusade against AIDS
Patna: His is a business economics, retail world cannot think about. Buy one, get two free. With this unique offer Shyam Das has been attracting customers at his kiosk located in a red light area in Purnia district of Bihar.
A poster boy of crusade against AIDS, Shyam runs a betel shop in the red light area of the town. He offers a pair of condoms free with betel to his customers.
By Lata CR, for iGovernment. -
HIV infected mother wins son’s custodyNeha Khanna
A young 25-year-old HIV infected mother has won a custody case against her in-laws, who abandoned her and kept her son away.
Neha Khanna, for NDTV.com.
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HIV scare fuels desire for minors
The DB Marg police just skimmed the huge racket in trafficking minors when they rescued three girls, aged 14, 16 and 17, from a brothel in Grant Road on March 27.
The police said minors are in great demand in the flesh trade because many "customers" think girls are free of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs), particularly HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
Dayanand Kamath, for DNA. -
The War on AIDS: Where are we?
"Bella detesta matribus," or "Wars are the dread of mothers," is one of many famous quotes from the Roman poet Horace. This pronouncement has certainly been proved true in Bogor, an hour's drive from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, where a very different war from the ones waged with spears and catapults is being fought.
Rico Gustav, Indonesia (source: sea-aids@eforums.healthdev.org) -
CCDS Workshop: ‘Reporting on HIV/AIDS’
Open Space, the civil society outreach initiative of the Centre for Communication and Development Studies, CCDS, Pune (www.ccds.in), announces a two-day workshop on 'REPORTING ON HIV/AIDS' to be held in Pune in early June. The workshop is open to young reporters / correspondents in the print, audiovisual and internet media in Maharashtra and Goa who write or report on health issues and would like to develop perspectives to report accurately on HIV/AIDS. Young and mid-career journalists from district towns are encouraged to apply. -
Globally, over 2.1m kids under 15 have AIDS: UN
NEW DELHI: Over 2.1 million children below 15 years are living with HIV globally, most of them infected before their birth, during delivery or while being breastfed.
While around 4.2 lakh children were newly infected in 2007, an estimated 2.9 lakh children under 15 years died from AIDS the same year. Young people, aged 15-24, accounted for about 40% of new HIV infections in 2007.
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Film Screening & Discussion, 8 April 2008, Open Space Pune
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 4pm-7pm, at Open Space Pune
Open Space invites you to a screening of 4 documentary films which address very human problems around HIV/AIDS such as stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), the need for peer education about the disease, the need for legislative action against discrimination of PLHIV and the need for legislation to protect the rights of PLHIV. The screenings will be followed by a discussion moderated by Hans Billimoria (Project Coordinator HIV/AIDS, Deep Griha Society) and Rama Sarode (Human Rights Lawyer, Pathfinder Pune) along with interaction with members of the NMP+ support group.
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