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Unprotected sexual congress among gays is spreading HIV/AIDS in Asia
Unprotected sexual congress among gay and bisexual men is spreading HIV/AIDS in Asia
according to public health experts, urging governments to do more to curb the problem in time.
Discriminatory laws criminalising certain sexual behaviours, such as sodomy, ought to be repealed so these men can more easily obtain information on disease prevention, drugs and treatment; they told an HIV/AIDS seminar this week in Hong Kong.Dr. Avnish Jolly, for The India Post.
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State legislators in India pledge to advance universal access to HIV services as a political goal
In a milestone in the political response to HIV in India, more than a 100 elected state legislators, from all major political parties in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have pledged to incorporate the goal of universal access to HIV services in their political manifestos. Legislators from 15 major political parties in the state met at a special all-party function organized by the Legislators Forum on AIDS and the State AIDS Control Society on 21 February. They signed a joint declaration of intent to integrate HIV issues into their official electoral campaigning as they gear up for the state's next election.
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AIIMS take steps to check crank calls to women AIDS counsellors
New Delhi, Feb 20 : Women counsellors at the AIDS helpline of the All
India Institute of Medical Sciences are up against crank callers who
ask obscene questions in the name of sex counselling and AIIMS is
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Punjab’s Forgotten Women: A lonely war against AIDS
Chandigarh: Truck drivers from Punjab fall into the most high-risk
category of HIV/AIDs victims. But what about the women and children
they leave behind? Faced with the worst kind of social stigma and
lack of financial help, these fatherless families often sink into
oblivion.
"I didn't even know what HIV was or how it is contracted. I never
thought my family would be a victim. I am not very educated. I have
grown up in a village," a truck driver's wife Pooja Thakur said.
Mandakini Gupta, for CNN-IBN.
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Politics wins over HIV/AIDS: Two prominent Iranian HIV/AIDS doctors jailed for nine years
Two prominent Iranian HIV/AIDS doctors jailed for a total of nine
years for their part in an alleged coup plot.
Iran HIV/AIDS dedicated Medical Brothers Dr. Arash Alaei and Dr.
Kamyar Alaei were accused of being "key elements" in a plan Iran said
was backed by the CIA. The prison sentences were imposed after a
secret trial after which Arash was sentenced to six years in prison
and Kamyar to three years.
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World AIDS Campaign thanks Wake Up Pune
Recently, we received a letter from Edwin Nichols (Global Constituencies Manager for the World AIDS Campaign), thanking Wake Up Pune for our successful partnership with WAC for the 2008 World AIDS Day India events.
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Priest advocates use of yoga to combat HIV-AIDS
PANAJI: Fr Joseph Pereira, the first Christian priest to be awarded
the Padma Shri for social work this year, has said that in India
where anti-retroviral treatment is beyond the reach of most people, yoga
can delay the onset of full-blown AIDS by five to ten years,
depending on the age of the person.
Popularly known as Fr Joe, the 67-year-old founder of Kripa
foundation has done pioneering work in the field of yoga for alcohol
de-addiction and HIV-AIDS in India and abroad for the last 27 years.
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“Zindagi Zindabad” Campaign to combat HIV AIDS in Kangra
Kangra: Although the spread of HIV/AIDS is a major concern in India,
only 61 percent of women age 15-49 and 84 percent of men age 15-49
have heard of AIDS, and Nationwide, only 17 percent of women and 33
percent of men have `comprehensive knowledge' of HIV/AIDS as per the
results of the third National Family Health Survey conducted recently.
A "Zindagi Zindabad" Campaign was recently flagged of in Kangra, the
largest District in the State by the Dr A Mahajan, Chief Medical
Officer, Kangra at Zonal Hospital Dharmsala. He told that various
services were being given in the District under the National AIDS
Control Programme.
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UNAIDS-Art of Living (AOL) national planning workshop on Hindu Caucus
Feb 2, 2009 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living
Foundation, inaugurated the two-day national planning workshop to
scale up the Hindu leaders response to HIV across the country, at the
Art of Living International Centre in Bangaluru on 31 Jan. 2009.
The Hindu leaders' caucus and its declaration on HIV in Jun. 2008
created immense enthusiasm and commitment by various Hindu leaders
from across the country. Since then a number of leaders have
incorporated HIV messaging into their discourses in large gathering.
In order to synergise these responses and organise them in a
sustainable manner at the state and district level, Art of Living
Foundation specially identified coordinators from their youth body-
WAYE (World Alliance of Youth Empowerment) who will work in
partnership with SACS in respective states.
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