WUPY Session: Trip to Sahara Aalhad

'Wake Up Pune Youth'  sessions are a chance for past, present and new volunteers to meet up and discuss HIV and AIDS in interesting and creative ways.

This week we will be visiting Sahara Aalhad, a residential care and rehabilitation centre for people living with HIV. Whilst there we will be meeting the founder of the NGO, as well as having group discussions about HIV in India.

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AIDS stigma drives HIV in India: World Bank study

HIV prevalence in India and South Asia is growing among sex workers and other high risk groups due to widespread failure to prevent stigmatising of people living with AIDS, according to a new report.

Despite prevention and other efforts to reduce high-risk behaviours such as unprotected sex, buying and selling of sex, and injecting drug use, HIV vulnerability and risk remain high, says the report by a team from the International Centre for Research on Women and the World Bank.

Times Of India

Scientists say vaginal gel cuts HIV-infections by half

A vaginal gel has significantly cut the rate of women contracting HIV from infected partners in an experiment in South Africa, researchers said.

They said the gel, containing Aids drug tenofovir, cut infection rates among 889 women by 50% after one year of use, and by 39% after two and a half years.

BBC NEWS

WUP Fundraiser – ‘ILLUMINATI’ Live @ The High

On Weds 28th July at 9pm, Wake Up Pune is hosting the fantastic 'Illuminati', a local rock band, at The High Spirits Cafe, Pune.

The concert is to raise funds for our matrimonial event, "Melava+: Live Positive. Love Positive.", which will be held on Sunday 1st August.

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18th International AIDS Conference begins

An estimated 20,000 participants from over 185 countries are taking part in the 18th International AIDS Conference that began in Vienna Sunday. The conference is a platform for those working in the field of HIV/AIDS as well as policy makers and persons living with HIV to exchange their views on the current situation of HIV prevention and treatment, new research in the field and recent scientific developments.

The Hindu

Ten million deaths and 1 million new HIV infections could be averted if countries meet HIV treatment targets

New UNAIDS report shows that young people are leading the prevention revolution, with 15 of the most severely affected countries reporting a 25% drop in HIV prevalence among this key population. New global opinion poll shows that AIDS continues to be of major importance for the public around the world.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

HIV antibody discovery a step toward vaccine

After years of disappointment, researchers have finally found a potential basis for an HIV vaccine.   Scientists  at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases   say they have discovered three human antibodies that neutralize more than 90 percent of the current circulating HIV-1 strains.

CNN

China must halt harassment and censorship of HIV/AIDS activists

9 July 2010
Chinese security forces last night cancelled a documentary screening by an HIV/AIDS education group, which Amnesty International is strongly criticising as part of the ongoing harassment of peaceful public health educators.

Amnesty

Private industry can help control TB

'PUNE: The private industry can play a vital role in promoting and undertaking tuberculosis (TB) control activities in the workplace and in the community around, said Naresh Rahane, past convenor of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Pune chapter, here on Friday. '

Times of India