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“I want to get married and before my marriage I want to do the test.”
I want to do HIV Test. I don’t know to whom should I contact. I want to get married and before my marriage I want to do the test. I know myself that I never had sex with anybody but …
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‘Test all prisoners for HIV’
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday ordered the Maharashtra government to conduct voluntary counselling and HIV testing for its 7,000 jail inmates incarcerated in the four central prisons in Thane, Yerwada, Nashik and Amravati. The campaign is part of a massive exercise to assess the prevalence of HIV in jails across the state.
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Social stigma, ignorance still plague HIV-positive people
NGOs believe talking about the disease will generate greater
awareness; groups focus on financial help, too
New Delhi: Imagine a 13-year-old having to live in a hovel outside a
village where he suffers complete isolation as an outcast, with his
mother leaving him food at a safe distance.
This scene from a medieval nightmare was enacted in modern day India,
as ignorance on HIV/AIDS continues to drive how society deals with
people afflicted with it.Taru Bahl for, livemint.com
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Govt, state hospitals seen as better bet for HIV treatments
Govt, state hospitals seen as better bet for HIV treatmentsPrivate hospitals are known to turn away HIV-positive people even though they may be better equipped
New Delhi: All roads lead to state clinics and hospitals when it comes to HIV/AIDS, even as lack of experts and fears on safety seem to constrain most private establishments.
"I would always recommend a (HIV) positive person to visit a government hospital. They are well trained...and there is a clear standard operating procedure... More importantly, first line medication is free of cost," says Loon Gangte of the Delhi Network of Positive People. "In private clinics, they will prescribe you expensive drugs, or at times even give wrong prescription, or put you straight on second-line treatment."
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Condoms Trump Abstinence in Obama Global AIDS Policy, Aide Says
President-elect Barack Obama will reverse U.S. family planning and AIDS prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education, a public-health adviser said.
Public health policies of President George W. Bush's $45- billion PEPFAR program have brought AIDS drugs to almost 3 million people in poor countries such as Rwanda and Uganda, more than under any other president. Still, requirements that health workers emphasize abstinence from sex and monogamy over condom use have set back sexually transmitted disease prevention and family planning globally, said Susan F. Wood, co-chairman of Obama's advisory committee for women's health.
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National Orientation cum Training Program on Blood Safety Begins at Chandigarh
Manoj Godara, Chandigarh, 18th December, 2008 :An Orientation cum Training program on Blood safety, jointly hosted by State AIDS Control Society, Chandigarh and Blood Transfusion Council, Chandigarh, is on the go at hotel Aroma from 18 to 20 December, 2008 under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) of GOI.
The conference includes the Program officers of 17 states who have congregated to deliberate on the National Blood Policy (NBP) and communicate various programs under NACP- III. Though, the focus will be essentially on discussing the various activities carried out by the delegates in their respective states with regard to safe blood donations. The representatives will be taken for a field visit to various blood banks in the Tricity. Chandigarh has been spotted as the conference venue by NACO (National AIDS Control Organization) because of its exemplary contribution in blood donation.
The India Post -
HIV Patient Becomes Role Model
She was once shunned by the people in her village in Kotangipatti Union in the district, as she was afflicted by HIV. But the 29 year old Easwari, now a panchayat councillor, has become a role model to guide women afflicted with AIDS.
When she filed the nomination papers for contesting in the general ward, many in the village coerced her to withdraw her papers giving a series of reasons like she would not be able to function effectively, her life span was doubtful and people would not mingle with her.
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Strangest but Truest Posts of 2008 in TheBody.com’s “Ask the Experts” Forums
December 9, 2008
We're nearly 30 years into the HIV pandemic, yet a shocking number of
people still appear not to know the first thing about HIV. We get to
see some of that ignorance firsthand in our "Ask the Experts" forums,
where we're sometimes amazed at just how paranoid some folks are about
whether they've been exposed to HIV.
We scoured our "Ask the Experts" forums and nominated 10 posts we feel
are the "best of the worst" of 2008 (or the worst of the worst,
depending on how you look at it). They're some of the oddest, most
nonsensical questions we've seen people ask about HIV this year.
Some are shocking, some are sad, many are hilarious -- and they're all
reminders of how far we still have to go to educate the world about
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HIV patient forced to live in isolation
Sangli (Maharashtra), Dec 11 (ANI): In yet another bizarre case of ostracizing AIDS victim, an HIV-positive tested woman was rescued from a secluded place in the remote rural area of Sangli district of Maharashtra where she was forcibly locked.
Kavita (name changed) feels sad that she had been forced to lead such a wretched life, staying in a dingy storeroom for a long time until the police rescued her.
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