Junagadh: As many as 23 children, suffering from thalassemia in Junagadh in Gujarat, have been found to be HIV positive. Angry parents have blamed government hospital authorities for infecting the children during blood transfusions. But the medical staff have denied it. For the little kids, blood transfusions are a reality they have to live with, to stay alive. Since January, over 100 thalassemic children below the age of ten years...
09:33 AM, Sep 11, 2011
Los Angeles: The maids of 'The Help' didn't take the Labour Day weekend off. The surprise summer hit held firm at the top of the domestic box office for the third straight week with $19 million in ticket sales. The drama about white women and their black maids in Civil Rights-era Mississippi polished off three new films based on four-day estimates released by movie studios on Monday, the U.S. Labour...
11:43 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Los Angeles: The summer blockbuster movie season comes to an end this weekend, and already moviegoers on one website have decided their favourite flick of the period -- 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2'. Voters in a new poll released on Thursday by NextMovie.com had the British boy wizard casting his spell over nearly 60 percent of voters for favorite summer flick, easily surpassing 'X-Men: First Class' with...
11:58 AM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: Three days after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered an FIR and conducted raids at YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's properties, close to 25 Congress MLAs and two MPs are contemplating resigning from the Congress party. Sources say that Jagans loyalists are protesting the CBI probe. They feel that the Congress high command is victimising Jagan and are even more irked by allegations of corruption on...
05:31 PM, Aug 21, 2011
Bellary: Over 7,000 tonnes of iron ore worth over Rs 4 crore were seized in Bellary in Karnataka on Sunday. The iron ore was being illegally transported in 24 lorries in Sandur in Bellary. This came on a day when BS Yeddyurappa had to step down as Karnataka Chief Minister because of his role in illegal mining in the state. The lorries belong to Tomatro Mining company. The authorities have...
07:38 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Kochi: Even as two of his fellow superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal are under the scrutiny of Income Tax (I-T) sleuths, Malayalam superstar Dileep attended the tax department's cultural celebrations here as one of the chief guests. Dileep sent the audience into ripples of laughter each time he referred to the raids against his co-superstars. "The moment you people came to invite me, I asked my producer and director who was...
03:36 PM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: Giving clarification on his controversial comments on homosexuality, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said that the Media has misquoted him and he didn't use the words 'homo' or 'gay'. Speaking at an AIDS conference in New Delhi on Monday, Azad said, "The disease of 'Men having Sex with Men' (MSM), which was found more in the developed world, has now unfortunately come to our country and...
07:32 PM, Jul 05, 2011
New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday sparked off a debate by saying that homosexuality is 'unnatural' and a 'disease'. Speaking at an AIDS conference in New Delhi, Azad said that gay sex is unnatural and leads to more AIDS cases. He added that the phenomenon has been transported to India from 'foreign shores'. "The disease of 'Men having Sex with Men' (MSM), which was found more in...
07:11 AM, Jul 05, 2011
London: Comedian Kristen Wiig, who has penned the forthcoming comedy "Bridesmaid" along with Annie Mumolo, says the movie is not meant for women only. Directed by Paul Feig, Bridesmaid talks about a group of friends and how a wedding impacts their relationship. "We did not write this movie specifically for a particular audience. There are some things that may be men gravitate towards, and may be women go for other...
04:25 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Kajol on Sunday evening made a rare appearance at a fashion show organised by designers Shaina NC and Manish Malhotra in support of Cancer Patients Aid Association. ...
03:19 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi-based designer MA Rahman, who made a condom kurta in 2010 to raise AIDS awareness, says he had approached the Indian government for support but there was no reply from the authorities and so he sent the shirt to the UN secretary general. "I thought of doing something new on World Aids Day (December 1) (in 2010) and this is the reason why I made a kurta from...
12:46 PM, Jun 20, 2011
London: Actor James Franco has been honoured for his humanitarian work at an AIDS charity event. Franco received the Piaget award of inspiration for his philanthropy and contributions to men's style at amfAR, the foundation for AIDS research. "I'm still a little unsure why I'm being honoured, but I'm glad that I'm here and I'm glad that I can help. It's certainly a cause that I believe in," contactmusic.com quoted...
11:47 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Kolkata: An estimated 70,000 children are infected with HIV in the country and the ailment is caused to most of them by parent-to-child-transmission (PTCT), according to a recent finding by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). Participants of a UNICEF-state AIDS Prevention and Control Society seminar in Kolkata said, quoting NACO estimates, that a small proportion of these children are infected by unsafe injections and blood transfusions. "UNICEF supports the...
10:57 AM, Jun 10, 2011
United Nations: World leaders at a UN AIDS summit launched a plan on Thursday to try to eliminate by 2015 most new HIV infections among children, who inherit the condition from already infected mothers. The campaign was launched as the leaders also agreed on a target of reaching 15 million people with HIV treatment, more than double the number who currently get it, also by 2015. Both goals were announced...
07:30 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Jaipur: Income Tax department conducted raids at 14 premises and surveys at six places belonging to private doctors here for suspected tax evasion, officials said on Thursday. The raids launched on Wednesday were being carried out till late last night and are likely to end on Thursday, they said. The raids and surveys were carried out at private hospitals, homes and offices of nine doctors in Lal Kothi, Malviya Nagar,...
11:36 AM, Jun 09, 2011
New Delhi: Aslam began to smoke marijuana at the age of ten, lured into it by friends. Soon he graduated to other drugs, mostly heroin, stealing mobile phones and snatching gold necklaces from around women's necks to pay for his habit. "When I tried it, I really liked it - I had a feeling of stillness all around me," said Aslam, now 17, of his drift into drugs and peer...
01:33 PM, Jun 08, 2011
It has been thirty years since the disease that would later be called AIDS was discovered, CNN Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen spoke to the woman who has been living with HIV for 20 of those 30 years. ...
10:07 AM, Jun 07, 2011
London: For his doctors, Timothy Ray Brown was a shot in the dark. An HIV-positive American who was cured by a unique type of bone marrow transplant, the man known as "the Berlin patient" has become an icon of what scientists hope could be the next phase of the AIDS pandemic: its end. Dramatic scientific advances since HIV was first discovered 30 years ago this week mean the virus is...
11:14 AM, Jun 02, 2011
New York: Children as young as 11 in Philadelphia city in the US can now order free condoms via mail in a new campaign launched to reduce sexually transmitted diseases. The programme, launched by the department of health, features a website that shows facts on diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhoea and HIV/AIDS, as well as instructions for young girls on how to use female condoms, Fox News reports. "Playing it safe...
10:23 AM, Apr 18, 2011
