This comprehensive report has been prepared with the objective to map the available evidences on impact on climate change on HIV responses and identify key research priorities through an evidence gap -
Speakers at a seminar in the port city yesterday underscored the need for proper education among the women to create competent leadership for fighting AIDS and social problems prevailing in the South and South East Asian region. Asian University of Women (AUW) organised the seminar on 'Leadership in a time of crisis: A personal journey in the campaign against HIV/AIDS in Malaysia' at a local hotel. Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, daughter of former prime minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohammad and a prominent journalist, presented a keynote speech as the chief guest.
Phase I Proves Shots Safe; Next Level Tests On 300 Volunteers Jaya Menon | TNN Chennai: India's HIV vaccine programme got a major boost with scientists of the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here reporting significant progress in the first phase of clinical trials for a vaccine to prevent AIDS. Preliminary results of phase one trial have successfully proved the vaccine's safety and its ability to stimulate immune response (that might provide protection against infection), the centre's head told TOI.
The number of HIV cases detected in Sri Lanka is 996 while mother to child contacts remain at 31. Specialist medical officer of HIV/sex related diseases prevention programme, Mrs. Sriya Kanthi Benaragama said that among the patients 410 were females and 563 males. Regular awareness programmes were conducted islandwide in 2007 and 348,895 blood samples were examined during the year, she further said. Since the first detection of an HIV patient in the country in 1987, by June 30, 2008 the number detected was 996 of whom 177 had died.
R. PRASAD An 18-month study on more than 10,500 people with HIV/AIDS in Tamil Nadu found nutritional supplements improved their health In what may be the biggest study ever conducted in India, the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TANSACS) has found conclusive evidence that providing micro and macronutrients to people living with HIV/AIDS greatly improves their health and quality of life.
Awareness on aids in India
A daylong seminar on HIV/AIDS and STIs (sexually transmitted infections) was held at the Rajarbagh Police Lines Auditorium in the city on Tuesday. World Vision, Bangladesh and Retired Police Officers' Welfare Association, Bangladesh organised the seminar to raise awareness among the police officials and to carry out advocacy campaign programme on these deadly deceases. Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Naim Ahmed inaugurated the programme as chief guest.
A limited health work force and inadequate human resources were some of the biggest problems faced to tackle HIV/AIDS in the country, according to health officials. This lacuna was followed by a lack of core competency to provide capacity building of other stakeholders to fight HIV/AIDS and inadequate research capacity for evidence-based programming. With about 144 cases reported until today, an increasing trend of HIV/AIDS infection was seen with 37 cases detected in 2007 alone.
By Lawrence K. Altman Plans for a large human trial of a promising government-developed HIV vaccine in the United States were canceled Thursday because a top federal official said scientists realized that they did not know enough about how HIV vaccines and the immune system interact. The decision is a major setback in an effort to develop an HIV vaccine that began 24 years ago when government health officials promised a marketed vaccine by 1987. Health officials have long contended that such a vaccine would be their best weapon to control the AIDS pandemic.
That the HIV/AIDS scenario in the State has undergone a sea change with concerted government and non-Government efforts was confirmed on Monday when Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi launched a book that recounts the real life narratives of people who have acquired the dreaded disease. The book, titled Positive in Rhino Land: Battle Against HIV/AIDS in Assam and authored by journalist Wasbir Hussain, brings the dreaded disease out of the closet by relating the struggles and determination of the affected people to live and keep smiling.
It will be in their mother tongue; folk media to be employed Jammu: The nomadic tribes of far-flung picturesque Himalayan range of Jammu and Kashmir are the focus of an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign. The tribes are being imparted knowledge about the ways and means to prevent the dreaded disease. The Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation has launched a fourfold programme throughout the State with special focus on the tribes of Gujjars and Bakerwals. This was in view of lack of knowledge among people about deadly diseases and sexually transmitted infections.
