Rly to give 75% discount on train fares to HIV+

NEW DELHI: For people living with HIV/AIDS, travel to hospitals and ART centres will get cheaper with the railway ministry agreeing to provide them with 75% concession even in reserved compartments.

Times of India

Hope for AIDS vaccine

NEW DELHI: In a significant discovery, scientists may have found the most potent weapon till date to combat HIV.

Times of India

Sexuality, politics and HIV

The complex of funding, widespread attention, and advocacy around HIV has enabled queer individuals to talk openly about their sexual desires and created space for more political subversion and critiques of sexuality. At the same time, HIV activism has limited the discussion around sexual desire by focusing on disease, "risk" groups, and epidemiology, writes Padma Govindan

The Morung Express

India refuses patent protection for AIDS drug of US company

Indias patent office yesterday rejected patent applications for tenofovir and darunavir, leaving the way open for any Indian company to manufacture the drugs, and to export tenofovir to Brazil, where the government has also rejected the patent

- Keith Alcorn, Wednesday, September 02, 2009

www.aidsmap.com

India on the lookout for HIV-H1N1 co-infection

NEW DELHI: With India reporting several cases of co-infection of H1N1 swine flu with HIV, and Maharashtra even confirming deaths in this category, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has dispatched an advisory to all its 217 antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres asking them to report any such cases of co-infection.

Times Of India

HIV-infected blood’ triggers an outrage

An allegation that HIV-infected blood was being transfused into patients, including kids, created a furore in Anupgarh in Rajasthan's Ganganagar district on Saturday.

India Today

HIV positive student turned out of school

LUCKNOW: A nine-year-old HIV positive student was turned out of a government-run primary school in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district as the principal mistakenly feared he would spread the virus among other children, officials said on Monday.

Times Of India

GLOBAL: Heroes of HIV – a new series of IRIN short films

IRIN Films is pleased to announce the launch of "Heroes of HIV" - a powerful and moving series of short films on HIV/AIDS

www.irinnews.org

Prisoners with HIV: HC seeks report from state in week

MUMBAI: Irked by the state government's failure to provide care and treatment to HIV +ve prisoners, the Bombay HC on Friday directed principal secretary (home) Anna Dani to visit jails in the state and submit a report to the court in a week.

Times Of India