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For Ration Cards, Supreme Court Widens Sex Workers' Identification Scope
Noting that a large number of sex workers are left out from issuance of ration cards, the Supreme Court Monday said the basis for their identification need not be restricted to the list provided by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
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In India Over 21 Lakh People Living With HIV, More Than Two-Fifth Women
India had an estimated 21.40 lakh people living with HIV in 2017, with slightly more than two-fifth of them being women, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) said on Friday.
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How Mother To Baby Transmission Of HIV Can Be Prevented In India
New Delhi: Every year, 6,500 children are born with HIV in India, according to various estimates. One-third of them die before their first birthday and half of them do not get to see their second. National AIDS Control Organisation or NACO’s programme, launched 14 years ago, provides utmost care to the women during pregnancy and childbirth. At BJ...
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Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope
Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...
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More Than 2,000 People Contract HIV From Blood Transfusion
More than 2,000 people contracted HIV across the country over a 17-month period after receiving blood transfusions, data from the national AIDS body shows. In response to a Right to Information request filed by Mumbai-based activist Chetan Kothari, the National AIDS Control Organisation or NACO said 2,234 people had been infected between October 20...
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14 New Inmates Detected Positive For HIV In Kanpur Jail
14 new inmates, including a woman, lodged at the district jail here were found to be HIV positive during an annual medical camp conducted by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), jail authorities said.
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India Adds More Cancer, HIV/AIDS Drugs To Essential Medicines List
The government has revised its list of essential medicines to add drugs for diseases ranging from cancer and HIV/AIDS to hepatitis C, in a move aimed at making them more affordable.
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AIDS Preventive Medicine Will be Available From December in Kolkata
One of Asia's largest red light districts, Sonagachi will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in what will be the first such initiative in the country.
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DCW Questions National AIDS Control Organisation Over Supply of Condoms
DCW chief Swati Maliwal has sought a detailed report from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) on the reasons for gap in supply of condoms in red light areas of the city and has asked it to resume the supply on an urgent basis.
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Governments Should Persuade Islamic State to Allow Aid Access: UNICEF
Countries should negotiate with Islamic State to persuade it to let UN children's agency UNICEF into areas the militants control, the aid organisation's representative in Syria said today.
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Global AIDS Epidemic Can be Controlled by 2030, UN Says
The United Nations said on Wednesday new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were decreasing, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030.
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World AIDS Day: India records sharp drop in number of cases
India has recorded a 57 percent drop in number of new HIV infections during the last decade, according to the latest figures from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
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Government takes action against food manufactures for misleading ads
The government has launched prosecution against the manufactures of 19 food items for allegedly making misleading claims in the advertisements for their products, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
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Madhya Pradesh to get three more HIV treatment centres
Three more antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres for HIV patients would be set up soon at Burhanpur, Neemuch and Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh. A proposal to this effect has been approved in principle by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) recently, officials said on Monday.
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Homosexuality no disease, India must include MSM: UNAIDS
Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis of a person's sexual orientation, UNAIDS emphasised on Tuesday, a day after Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said men having sex with men (MSM) is a "disease" and "unnatural". (Read: Ghulam Nabi Azad's comments on MSM)"India's rich tradition of inclusivity a...
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For Ration Cards, Supreme Court Widens Sex Workers' Identification Scope
Noting that a large number of sex workers are left out from issuance of ration cards, the Supreme Court Monday said the basis for their identification need not be restricted to the list provided by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
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In India Over 21 Lakh People Living With HIV, More Than Two-Fifth Women
India had an estimated 21.40 lakh people living with HIV in 2017, with slightly more than two-fifth of them being women, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) said on Friday.
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How Mother To Baby Transmission Of HIV Can Be Prevented In India
New Delhi: Every year, 6,500 children are born with HIV in India, according to various estimates. One-third of them die before their first birthday and half of them do not get to see their second. National AIDS Control Organisation or NACO’s programme, launched 14 years ago, provides utmost care to the women during pregnancy and childbirth. At BJ...
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Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope
Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...
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More Than 2,000 People Contract HIV From Blood Transfusion
More than 2,000 people contracted HIV across the country over a 17-month period after receiving blood transfusions, data from the national AIDS body shows. In response to a Right to Information request filed by Mumbai-based activist Chetan Kothari, the National AIDS Control Organisation or NACO said 2,234 people had been infected between October 20...
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14 New Inmates Detected Positive For HIV In Kanpur Jail
14 new inmates, including a woman, lodged at the district jail here were found to be HIV positive during an annual medical camp conducted by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), jail authorities said.
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India Adds More Cancer, HIV/AIDS Drugs To Essential Medicines List
The government has revised its list of essential medicines to add drugs for diseases ranging from cancer and HIV/AIDS to hepatitis C, in a move aimed at making them more affordable.
-
AIDS Preventive Medicine Will be Available From December in Kolkata
One of Asia's largest red light districts, Sonagachi will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in what will be the first such initiative in the country.
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DCW Questions National AIDS Control Organisation Over Supply of Condoms
DCW chief Swati Maliwal has sought a detailed report from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) on the reasons for gap in supply of condoms in red light areas of the city and has asked it to resume the supply on an urgent basis.
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Governments Should Persuade Islamic State to Allow Aid Access: UNICEF
Countries should negotiate with Islamic State to persuade it to let UN children's agency UNICEF into areas the militants control, the aid organisation's representative in Syria said today.
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Global AIDS Epidemic Can be Controlled by 2030, UN Says
The United Nations said on Wednesday new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were decreasing, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030.
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World AIDS Day: India records sharp drop in number of cases
India has recorded a 57 percent drop in number of new HIV infections during the last decade, according to the latest figures from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
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Government takes action against food manufactures for misleading ads
The government has launched prosecution against the manufactures of 19 food items for allegedly making misleading claims in the advertisements for their products, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
-
Madhya Pradesh to get three more HIV treatment centres
Three more antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres for HIV patients would be set up soon at Burhanpur, Neemuch and Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh. A proposal to this effect has been approved in principle by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) recently, officials said on Monday.
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Homosexuality no disease, India must include MSM: UNAIDS
Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis of a person's sexual orientation, UNAIDS emphasised on Tuesday, a day after Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said men having sex with men (MSM) is a "disease" and "unnatural". (Read: Ghulam Nabi Azad's comments on MSM)"India's rich tradition of inclusivity a...
