Tag: AIDS
Toronto:Fifteen years after its debut, the female condom has failed to catch on with women and aid agencies, despite its potential as a powerful tool ...
Bhaktapur, August 25:The number of people living with AIDS is increasing in Bhaktapur due to large number of sex workers and Injecting Drug Users (IDU).Shankar ...
Kathmandu, August 25:At least 105 security personnel have been infected with HIV, including 60 in Nepal Army, 40 in Nepal Police and five in Armed ...
Tuesday 5th August, 2008 Mexico City/A coalition of human-rights and AIDS activists havedemanded the release of two AIDS experts detained in Iran.The men, ...
HIV infection rates among gay men in many parts of Asia are as severe as those which devastated US homosexual communities in the late 1980s, ...
After major disappointments, AIDS research in the US is making a significant turn away from human clinical trials and back to laboratory basics in the ...
Six people have died of AIDS in Nepal in the month of Jestha (May 14-June 14), a government report states.The Cumulative HIV/AIDS Situation report on ...
Kuala Lumpur: A new AIDS threat is rising in India's numerous call centres, where young staff are increasingly having unprotected sex with multiple partners in affairs developed during night shifts, a top AIDS expert has warned.While India has made great strides in bringing down its HIV infection rate, the promiscuity among ''call centre Romeos'' is a great concern, Dr Suniti Solomon, who detected the first HIV case in India in 1986, told an international medical conference on Saturday.The United Nations, however, still estimates there are some 2.5 million Indians living with HIV and AIDS now.''India has reached a plateau of the infections,'' Solomon told the International Congress on Infectious Diseases, which ends on Sunday.Her concern now is the call centres, where many of the young staff work at night to correspond with the daytime working hours of their American and European clients.''They have all the money....
Orphaned by AIDS, over 250 AIDS-afflicted children of 14 VDCs of Doti district have been staying with their grandparents.These grandparents, who should have been resting their tired bones in the twilight of their lives, have to get up early, groom the children, cook for them and do their laundry also. I have to look after my grandchildren, as their parents have died of AIDS, said Manmaya.She added that it would be a great relief if someone helped her financially for the grandchildrens education.Grandparents tu-rned up with AIDS-afflicted children at a mobile camp organised recently in Doti recently by the Family Health International....
An Indian eunuch Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is fighting for the rights and respect of the global transgender community during the ongoing United Nations high level meeting on AIDS.After meeting a large number of ambassadors, diplomats, world leaders and social activists who from all over the world have gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the HIV/ AIDS meet, Tripathi told NDTV.Com in an interview that she is here to fight for transgender community, who have been deprived of their basic rights and are not being treated as human being.''I am raising the main issues of sex workers and sexual minorities who are treated with total disrespect. Then, why we the transgender are treated as invisible?Speaking flawless English to the surprise of many UN correspondents, Tripathi explained that throughout the global South, especially in countries where transgender persons were also part of an ethnic group, sexual minorities were forced to beg for basic services and health care or forced into sex work because there was no political will to recognise their fundamental rights.''Health services for people suffering from HIV AIDS are out of the question because doctors don't want to touch you,'' she said.Observing that transgender people are very often threatened with stoning and death, Tripathi said that transgender communities are often afraid to assert their rights because they know that authorities would not back them up. We can't let this happen anymore,'' she said.Running an NGO called Astitva in Mumbai for the welfare of sexual minorities, Tripathi alleged that be it in the developed or the developing countries or the underdeveloped world, sexual minorities are not taken into consideration at all.Observing that the condition of her community worldwide is pathetic, Tripathi said: ''They have no human rights, no right to education and no right for employment....
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