Kolkata: Tarit Chakrobarty, secretary of Bengal Network of People Living with HIV AIDS, is a young crusader in West Bengal is spreading awareness across the state. An AIDS victim himself, Tarit is a fighters teaching others like himself how to fight pain, stigma and alienation they meet as they are victims of this deadly disease. Bengal Network of People Living with HIV AIDS is an organisation comprising of men and...
08:54 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Just a few days before the World AIDS day, an eye-opening report says at least 2.3 million people in the country are living with the virus. Many survivors have been fighting for quality of life. At least 2.3 million Indians live with HIV/AIDS, though the latest UNAIDS report states that the rate of infection in India has come down. It's no longer a death sentence, as survivor and...
09:27 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Civil Society groups working with HIV/AIDS patients have been demanding that the HIV Bill should be taken up in the winter session of Parliament. The bill has been waiting approval by the Union Health Ministry for more than 5 years now. Even as politics held the first day of the winter session hostage, not far from Parliament, on Monday, protestors gathered over a long-pending bill to deal with...
10:02 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Social causes top filmmaker Priyadarshan's priority list and his next three movie projects -- 'Kanchivaram' part two, a movie on HIV-AIDS and a film about girl child -- will highlight serious issues. One of the most successful directors down south, Priyadarshan has also made many commercial Hindi entertainers, but now he has turned his attention to meaningful movies. In a chat with IANS, while on a trip to his...
11:59 AM, Sep 22, 2011
New York: New York man has contracted the AIDS virus in the nation's first case of transmission from a living organ donor since a screening test was implemented to prevent such infection, the New York State Department of Health said on Thursday. The recipient of a live kidney transplant in a New York City hospital tested positive for the HIV virus, department spokeswoman Claudia Hutton said. While screening was properly...
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