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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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Injecting Drug Users Main Reason For Spread Of HIV In North-East: JP Nadda
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Saturday said injecting drug users continue to be the prime factor for the spread of HIV-AIDS in north-eastern region even as the government has increased medical facilities for testing and treatment of people living with the illness.
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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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Injecting Drug Users Main Reason For Spread Of HIV In North-East: JP Nadda
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Saturday said injecting drug users continue to be the prime factor for the spread of HIV-AIDS in north-eastern region even as the government has increased medical facilities for testing and treatment of people living with the illness.
