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Techie forges HIV+ve report to escape knot
CHENNAI: His parents found him a suitable girl, but he was already in love with another. As the wedding date was fixed, he found an unusual way to prevent the marriage by producing a fake medical report which said he was HIV positive. What he didn't expect was that he would end up behind the bars for cheating the girl.
Ashok Nagar all women police on Friday arrested Satish, a 28-year-old MBA graduate working in a software company in TIDEL park, and slapped cases under Sections 420 (cheating) and 4 (1) of Prevention of Women Harassment Act.
Initial inquiries revealed that right from his college days, Satish has been in love with a girl, who is now working in the US. He kept the affair a secret and agreed to marry the girl form Jafferkhanpet his parents found for him. The couple got engaged and their marriage was fixed for the first week of September. Satish, a resident of Mugalivakkam near Porur, apparently had a change of mind and decided to call off the marriage.
He visited the girl's parents last week and broke down, telling them that he was HIV positive. He gave them a lab report 'confirming' his status. Not entirely convinced, the girl's family later called up the lab, which denied having issued such a report to Satish. They said the logo on the report was a fake one.
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250,000 Americans Don’t Know They’re HIV-Positive
Some 250,000 Americans are HIV positive but unaware of it, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday, and most of them are not in high-risk groups.
"In the past, people associated HIV with drug use and men who have sex with men," said Bernard Branson, associate director for Laboratory Diagnostics in CDC's division of HIV/AIDS prevention. "But the epidemic is changing, and there is an increased proportion of cases that have been reported in heterosexual transmissions and among women," he said.
Branson said that efforts to test people who are in high-risk groups for HIV had been successful. To reach the remaining 25 percent of Americans who are HIV positive but don't suspect it, however, efforts have to be broadened, and quickly, according to Branson.
An HIV-positive person who doesn't know it is three and a half times more likely to transmit the infection than someone who does, he said.
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HIV carrier wants to return to Pak jail
Karachi: An Indian fisherman was sent back to India by Pakistan authorities, because he was found to be HIV-positive. He was repatriated within two days of his test results. During his stay in India, however, his family tried to immolate him, forcing him to demand of the authorities to send him back to prison in Pakistan.
A few months ago, 17-year-old Narendra, alias Bhagan, was arrested along with five other Indian fishermen for fishing illegally in Pakistani waters.
The boy was sent to jail by the Civil and Judicial Magistrate, West, under FIR 25/2008 of the Docks police station under the Fisheries Act and during a random blood screening of the inmates carried out by the HIV/AIDS Control Programme, he was found to be HIV-positive on March 27.
His case was prepared and, through the Sindh home department, sent to the federal interior ministry for the withdrawal of the criminal case and his deportation back home and also for approaching the foreign ministry to take up the matter with the Indian High Commission (IHC).
Salis bin Perwaiz, for The News -
HIV POSITIVE Experience
This is my experience wearing my HIV-positive t-shirt. I decided to wear it as a went through U.S. Customs and Border Control when I was on my way back to the U.S. en route to the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Mexico. As an artifact left over from the early days of the HIV epidemic (and in line with certain factions of right wingers in the U.S. today), the United States has a complete ban on the entry of HIV-positive persons who are not U.S. citizens and has a policy of deporting any foreigners who are found to be living with HIV or who test positive while in the U.S. Because of this, I wanted to see the reaction of the immigration officials to me wearing my t-shirt as I entered the U.S. through JFK airport (particularly because I am a U.S. citizen and can't be denied entry to my own country regardless of my HIV status).
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Ban on HIV-positive visitors, immigrants continues
A Congressional Budget Office report suggests the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention favors lifting a 1987 regulation that bans HIV-positive people from visiting or settling in the United States.
The regulation remains in effect after President Bush signed a sweeping global AIDS bill July 30 that includes language repealing an immigration law that also barred HIV-positive visitors from the country.
"Based on information from the CDC, CBO expects that the agency would amend the regulations concerning communicable diseases to allow aliens with HIV or AIDS into the United States if [the global AIDS bill] were enacted," say the CBO report, which was released in April.
"CBO expects that the amended regulations would take effect at the beginning of fiscal year 2010," the report says.
The report, which provides a cost estimate for implementing the global AIDS bill, represents the only known document indicating the Bush administrations intensions on whether to retain or lift the remaining regulatory ban on HIV visitors and immigrants.
Lou Chibbaro Jr., for The Washington Blade
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Vacancy: India World AIDS Day Project Coordinator (Pune / New Delhi)
The World AIDS Campaign, together with our partners Deep Griha Society (implementer of the Wake Up Pune Campaign) and the Naz Foundation (India) Trust, are currently seeking a Project Coordinator for India World AIDS Day event. This is a short term position, expected to begin October 1st and continue until the end of the year; applicants should be based in Pune or New Delhi.
For more information, please see the attached job description.
India World AIDS Day Project Coordinator
Deadline: September 10th, 2008 -
Condom ringtone launched in India
A cellphone ringtone that chants "condom, condom!" has been launched in India to promote safe sex and tackle the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The "condom a cappella" has been designed to break down Indians' reluctance to discuss condom use and to make wearing a condom more acceptable.
Organisers of the campaign, funded by the foundation set up by Microsoft mogul Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, hope the ringtone will become a craze among young Indians.
About 2.5 million people live with HIV in India, said the BBC World Service Trust, the charity behind the ringtone, which was released this month. It can be downloaded at condomcondom.org.
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AIDS fight needs religious leaders
Involving religious leaders is an essential measure to address HIV/AIDS issue in Muslim countries, said visiting human-rights activist Marina Mahathir on Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com.
Mahathir, a member of the International Steering Committee for the Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on HIV and AIDS, was sharing her experience on awareness campaigns at the city's Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB).
The seminar titled 'HIV/AIDS: Facing the Challenges' was the first in a series of seminar to be held countrywide, Professor M Omar Rahman, pro-vice-chancellor of IUB, said in his welcome note.
Explaining the perils of running campaigns on such sensitive issue as AIDS in Malaysia, Mahathir said their major challenges were social and religious sensitivity and the mindset of people toward AIDS victims.
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Re: A first: Kerala reserves post for HIV positive
VIEW: It is a PR exercise
Kerala recently became the first Indian state to reserve jobs for HIV positive candidates. The state has an estimated 25,000 HIV positive people.
The Kerala State AIDS Control Society (KSACS) announced that it had reserved a vacancy in its office for an HIV positive person to "improve coordination and communication with groups at risk and ensure effective prevention".
While this may seem like a laudable move, it is in fact little more than grandstanding for applause.
Editorial, The Times of India
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