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Pune, Chennai trials for Aids vaccine await nod
PUNE: Clinical trials for an Aids vaccine are likely to begin in Pune
and Chennai. The International Aids Vaccine Initiative (Iavi), along
with the National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) and the Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has submitted a protocol for the
trials to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for its
approval. The proposed phase I of the clinical trials will use a MVA-
based prime boost regime.
Siddhartha D Kashyap, for DNA -
East India’s gay rights guru
THIS AIN'T MOTHER TERESA'S INDIA
Fighting for decriminalization of gay sex
At only 40 years of age, Pawan Dhall is already known as a godfather of India's gay rights movement.
In the '80s, he came out to his parents while he was still in high school. In 1999, he marched in Kolkata's first Gay Pride parade, along with only 15 others. And now, he heads up East India's branch of SAATHII (Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India).
Kaj Hasselriis, for Where Queers Conspire -
Crime against Women
INCIDENCE RATE
2006 : 1,64,765 2006 : 14.72007 : 1,85,312 2007 : 16.3
. Andhra Pradesh reported 13.3% of total such cases in the country
(24,738 out of 1,85,312). Tripura reported the highest crime rate
(30.7) closely followed by Andhra Pradesh (30.3) as compared to the
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Kolkata AIDS care centre project shelved after protests
Kolkata, Dec 3: A bid to set up a community care centre for HIV-
positive people here has been temporarily shelved following
objections from nearby residents who wrongly believe that the virus
might spread to them also, officials said Wednesday.The West Bengal State AIDS Prevention and Control Society planned to
set up the 10-bed community care centre for the HIV-affected at
Amherst Street area in north Kolkata. The officials rented a house in
October and started furnishing the rooms for the centre when
residents began resisting, saying that AIDS is contagious.
NEWKERALA.COM -
Towards a better life: Sex workers take charge
With the help of 15 NGOs, sex workers across Mumbai have started a
self-help movement through which they solve their problemsMumbai: When Kusum's three-month-old son was kidnapped six months
ago, she was convinced she would never see him again. A commercial
sex worker from Koperkhairane, she felt she wasn't "privileged''
enough for the police to help her out. But by the eighth day, the
police had tracked down her son, who had been sold to a childless
couple.
Malathy Iyer, for Times of India -
Homosexuality needs to be curbed as it spreads HIV/AIDS: Centre to HC
NEW DELHI: Justifying criminalisation of homosexuality in the country, the Centre has pleaded before the Delhi High that it is one of the main reasons for spread of HIV/AIDS and needs to be curbed.
In a written submission filed by Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra, the Centre said that legalising Men having sex with Men (MSM), as pleaded by gay rights activists, would lead to spread of the dreaded disease and placed reports of various countries to substantiate its stand.
"In Zambia, one in three (33%) surveyed men who have sex with men tested HIV-positive. In the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, 43% of men who said they had sex only with other men were found to be living with HIV," the government said, quoting the United Nations report on Global AIDS Epidemic, 2008.
"In Bangkok, HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men rose from 17% in 2003 to 28% in 2005 and it is estimated that as many as 21% new HIV infections in Thailand in 2005 were attributable to unprotected sex between men," the Centre said.
Times of India -
Man kills wife, kids fearing AIDS
GURGAON: It was a confession that shook even the most hardened law-
keepers. Naresh (name changed), the accused in the triple murders in
Shikohpurvillage near Gurgaon, said he killed his wife and two minor children
because he feared they were suffering from AIDS. Naresh was arrested
last week. He remained in police remand for three days and was
produced in court on Tuesday.On December 16, 2008, Naresh allegedly killed his 27-year-old wife,
seven-year-old daughter and five-year-old son by strangulating them
at home, 14 km away from Gurgaon. Police registered a case under
section 302 of IPC against Naresh, his father and brother after
Naresh's father-in-law implicated the trio. Though his brother and
father were arrested immediately, Naresh went absconding. He was
arrested later from Jodhpur, Rajasthan, said the SHO of Kherki Daula
police station.
Sumi Sukanya, for Times of India -
“…One thing is my parents. What they will feel when they will know about my status?”
Dear Dr Punewali, I am a man in my mid-20s. I got HIV from M2M (male sex with male). I don’t have attraction towards females. I had a sex without precautions and it is very shameful. Now I have no …
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“Can you please tell me what is the real life expectancy of a patient?”
Dear Dr Punewali, I am in my mid-20s. I got infected with this deadly virus 8 months ago. Can you please tell me what is the real life expectancy of a patient? I told everything to my girlfriend and she …
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