Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/02/2025. The Supreme Court (SC), February 24, 2025 has directed all states to file their affidavits addressing concerns raised about antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs …
the Union government has drawn up ambitious plans for hiv/aids. A decision to merge the aids programmes with those of tuberculosis (tb) and family welfare was taken at the eighth conference of the Central Council Of Health And Family Welfare in Delhi. The council is the highest decision-making body on …
wall stalled: A mid-level court in South Korea has stayed further work on the Saemangeum Sea Wall which, upon completion, would be the world's largest coastal drainage project. More than 3500 citizens and local environmental groups had earlier filed a case against the proposed structure. Conservationists contend that construction of …
The powers that be finally seem to be alive to the AIDS threat, even envisaging the involvement of policymakers in stemming the scourge. How exactly they will play this role has, however, not been spelt out. That the disease poses an unprecedented public health challenge was unanimously recognised at the …
Even as the progress made in anti- aids research was discussed at the Conference on hiv Pathogenesis and Treatment, participants expressed concern over the acute shortage of money needed to pass on the benefits of such studies to affected people. It was observed at the meeting
http://www.fao.org/hivaids/ Labour intensive farming systems with low mechanisation and agricultural input are more vulnerable to AIDS. That is one of the many small, but vital facts that we learn while getting the answers to the bigger question of how AIDS affects food security. After all, 80 per cent of the …
a group of haemophiliacs, who contracted aids and Hepatitis b through blood transfusion, recently filed a lawsuit in the federal court in San Francisco against four manufacturers of clotting agents. The two components of blood
The paanwallah -doubling-up-as-a-condom-vendor ad has been taken off the air. Instead, Doordarshan (dd) will show a village council member warning women about aids and exhorting them to be faithful. The shift in focus heralds a drastic change in India's aids prevention policy. No longer condom-centric. Harping on abstinence and fidelity. …
The origin of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) has generated considerable interest and controversy amongst scientists the world over. Flaming this interest is the theory put forth by Edward Hooper, a British journalist based in Africa, who in his book, The River, proposed that the origin of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome …
subha (not her real name), 35, had been married for over 10 years, but was still childless. Doctors attributed this condition to her husband's low sperm count. Her craving for motherhood drove her to three infertility clinics in Kolkata, West Bengal, where she underwent several insemination sessions. Sadly what she …
the first ever aids vaccine to be tested on a large number of people has not been able to protect them from hiv infection, admitted Vaxgen, the vaccine's us-based manufacturer. But controversially, it tried to put a positive spin to this failure by announcing the vaccine, called Aidsvax, seemed to …
AIDS Messages What do Sushma Swaraj and George W Bush have in common? A mutual contempt of condoms, for one. The us president is known to prefer spreading the word about abstinence over safe sex. Sushma Swaraj too favours this mode. The bbc World Service Trust, in partnership with Doordarshan …
Why is it so difficult to control HIV/AIDS after all we know? The disease is linked with immorality and promiscuity. People don't want to accept these issues or discuss perceptions of them. As many people have never heard about hiv, they do not know how to avoid it. There is …
WORLD AIDS DAY . MTV To mark the occasion of World AIDS Day on December 1, MTV organised concerts at Cape Town, South Africa and Seattle, USA, featuring well-known performers such as Puff Diddy, Alicia Keyes and others. The show was broadcast on global MTV channels and on more than …
LIVING WITH THE AIDS VIRUS: THE EPIDEMIC AND THE RESPONSE IN INDIA . Editors: Samiran Panda, Anindya Chatterjee, Abu S Abdul-Quader . Sage Publications . Rs 250 . 204 pages This collection of essays traces the growth of the AIDS crisis in India and documents how the country has responded …
The Union ministry of health and family welfare recently announced that blood donors found hiv positive would be informed of their infection and asked to seek confirmatory tests. This is in contrast to the existing policy, where blood tested hiv positive is discarded without the donor being told about it. …
