Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
LAHORE - The Punjab AIDS Control Programme (PACP) during the year 2018 conducted AIDS and Hepatitis tests of 42,000 inmates and 33,000 truck drivers apart from other initiatives, said spokesman for PACP. HE said that the Punjab AIDS Control Program set up 38 testing centers in all jails of Punjab, …
A senior official of Telangana AIDS Control Society said, delay in funds is affecting the prevention and control programmes. Hyderabad: A total of 9,324 new cases of HIV infections were reported in Telangana in 2017, constituting 11 per cent of the total cases in the country, according to a report …
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) released the report HIV Estimations 2017. The HIV Estimations 2017 is the 14th round in the series of HIV Estimations under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP). NACO undertakes HIV estimations biennially in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute …
HIV prevalence was 1.6 per cent among female sex workers, 2.7 per cent among men having sex with men, 3.1 per cent among eunuchs/transgender and 6.3 per cent in IDU compared to 0.28 per cent among pregnant women attending ante natal care clinics. Even as an approximate 10.54 lakh persons …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala State AIDS Control Society (KSACS) has decided to go with 4th generation Elisa test, instead of nucleic acid-based test, to detect HIV in the window period. A study conducted by the society has found that the Elisa test was more effective than nucleic test. HIV screening had become …
Over 9,000 cases of HIV have been detected so far in Assam, the State government said today. In a written reply in the Assembly on behalf of the Health Minister, State Agriculture Minister Nilamani Sen Deka said that as on March 31, 2014, a total of 9,110 cases of HIV …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved a `2,550 crore National AIDS Control Support Project. The proposed project by the Department of AIDS Control will contribute towards intensifying and consolidating prevention services with a focus on highly vulnerable populations, high risk groups and bridge population and strengthening behaviour …
SILCHAR: India’s National AIDS Control Programme has achieved a 50 per cent reduction in new infections over the last 10 years. Still, there are an estimated 2.1 million people living with HIV in India. 90 per cent of infections in India are sexually transmitted. PEPFAR (The US President’s Emergency Plan …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has failed to utilise the funds for the last three years despite increasing assistance from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) every year. According to the report of the Odisha State AIDS Control Society (OSACS), while only Rs 15.44crore could be utilised out of a grant …
India had witnessed a sharp decline in the number of new HIV cases — a 56 per cent drop — in the past 10 years. “HIV infections have declined by 56 per cent during the last decade from 2.7 lakh in 2000 to 1.2 lakh in 2009 in our country,” …
A highly successful AIDS prevention programme launched in India by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has evoked great interest in Africa where over two thirds of people with the deadly disease live. "There is so much demand for these learnings in Africa," Alkesh Wadhwani, head of the foundation's India …
A Central team from the National AIDS Control Organisation, New Delhi, which is in the State to evaluate the care, support and treatment programmes implemented by Tamil Nadu, has said that there are lessons here for the rest of the country to follow. For instance, there is high praise for …
After much dilly-dallying, the Centre has finally agreed to do away with Stavudine, having long-term irreversible side-effects, with a safer drug for HIV patients, even though the switchover will cost the government double the amount. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had in 2010 recommended to phase out Stavudine due to …
120,000 new HIV infections were reported in 2009. The 12th five-year plan will strive for a 60 per cent reduction in new Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections by 2017. The plan document will also incorporate recommendations of a Planning Commission working group constituted to suggest measures to strengthen AIDS control …
GUWAHATI: On the occasion of World AIDS Day, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi assured that the government may soon take initiatives to provide affordable treatments to the patients who have been suffering from HIV-HCV co-infection. The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is ‘Getting to zero-new HIV infection, zero-discrimination …
UNAIDS’s World AIDS Day report for 2011, which was released on Monday, revealed a dramatic decrease of 56 per cent between 1996 and 2010 in the number of new HIV infections in India. South and South East Asia with an estimated 2,70,000 new HIV cases in 2010 showed a 40 …
The second phase of Red Ribbon Express, a 10-coach exhibition train for creating awareness about HIV/AIDS in farflung areas of the country, was flagged-off on Tuesday by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The express is aimed at creating awareness about HIV/AIDS. Speaking on the occasion, Ms Gandhi said that it is …
