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’69’ restaurant joins forces with Wake Up Pune campaign
Pune, April 17: '69', the health food restaurant, with the tag-line 'Living Life in Every Breath' is opening up on April 19. 69 has opted to be one of the first HIV Positive restaurants in the city, taking the lead in supporting the Wake Up Pune campaign.
HIV Positive is positive about education, positive about awareness, positive about support as is the motto of the Wake Up Pune campaign, says a statement issued here.
From Indian Express. -
Is it time to give up the search for an AIDS vaccine?
After 25 years and billions of pounds, leading scientists are now forced to ask this question.
Most scientists involved in AIDS research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent.
By Steve Connor and Chris Green, for the Independent. The survey can also be viewed online. -
Small blood banks to be closed
NEW DELHI: Small blood banks, collecting less than 1,000 units of blood annually from voluntary donors, will soon be shut down. They will instead function as mere blood storage units, which will be supplied with whole blood and blood components like plasma and platelets by highly sophisticated "mother banks", coming up in each of the four zones.
Each storage unit will then supply blood to hospitals and localities around it to ensure that even the country's most backward areas don't face shortage of the life-saving components.National Aids Control Organisations (NACO) estimates that over 15% of the 2,433 government and charitable blood banks will be converted.
From Times of India. -
Indians more prone to HIV-AIDS than others, says study
NEW DELHI: The biggest ever gene mapping exercise of the "people of India" has shown that Indians are more vulnerable to HIV-AIDS than many other population groups around the world. This is because a protective gene marker against HIV-1 is virtually absent in India, making the population more at risk.
Ashish Sinha, for Times of India. -
Maharashtra to reintroduce sex education
Children these days are exposed to sexual content everywhere - whether it's TV, magazines, or the Internet. But the irony is that the sex education is banned in many states.
Now, one year after protests by parents and politicians, the Maharashtra government is rethinking a sex education policy. They plan to introduce it in schools across the state.
Prerana Thakurdesai, for NDTV.com. -
Why Men Buy Sex
Manjima Bhattacharjya (for Times of India) on the forces that send men to brothels...
It was the summer of 2001 and even though it was barely 8 am, the Rajasthan sun already had us breaking out in sweat. That day our team from JAGORI, a Delhi-based women's group, was visiting sex work stations along the national highway as part of a study. At our first host's home, a freshly bathed Hindu priest with bodhi and starched dhoti rode past us on a sputtering Bajaj. "Some puja?" we asked. Not quite, said our hosts, chuckling, just the first client of the day. -
No scheme to help children with HIV
NEW DELHI, April 20: The government admits it has no effective programme to address issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS affected orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the country. Apart from the HIV infected children, those who have been orphaned by AIDS need support and treatment as well.
Ajita Singh, for The Statesman. -
Poster boy of crusade against AIDS
Patna: His is a business economics, retail world cannot think about. Buy one, get two free. With this unique offer Shyam Das has been attracting customers at his kiosk located in a red light area in Purnia district of Bihar.
A poster boy of crusade against AIDS, Shyam runs a betel shop in the red light area of the town. He offers a pair of condoms free with betel to his customers.
By Lata CR, for iGovernment. -
HIV infected mother wins son’s custodyNeha Khanna
A young 25-year-old HIV infected mother has won a custody case against her in-laws, who abandoned her and kept her son away.
Neha Khanna, for NDTV.com.
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