Days after Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality in India, the government today announced the implementation of HIV, AIDS Prevention and Control) Act, 2017, which criminalises discrimination against victims of deadly disease.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV at the end of 2016.
The numbers are sadly shocking in India, Pakistan and China
On World AIDS Day, let's take shatter some common myths surrounding HIV/AIDS
HIV isn’t going to trouble the expecting mothers anymore, as according to experts’ combination of several medicines can reduce the risk of transmission of the disease to the baby.
For thirty years, the world believed a gay man to be “Patient Zero” of AIDS and demonised him for spreading HIV across North America in the 1980s, only to find out that he may not
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to 'The HIV and AIDS Bill, 2014' (Prevention and Control) Bill to bring legal accountability, to create a formal system and to investigate complaints against those who discriminate
Tata Motors, India’s premier truck manufacturing brand, has taken a ‘unique’ approach to promote safe sex among truck drivers in India as they are in the HIV high-risk group.
It is always said that it’s not easy to be a woman. The statement stands true in every sense, be it emotionally or physically. While women are strong enough when it comes to controlling their
New Delhi: Deaths caused due to AIDS in India have come down to nearly 55 pc since 2007, while new HIV infections saw a reduction by 66 pc since 2000 and around a million people
United Nations/New Delhi: Admitting that India needs to adopt the fast-track targets proposed by UNAIDS, Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda has stressed the need to reach out to 90 per cent of the people in
United Nations:Major Western nations are protesting a move to block gay and transgender groups from attending a high-level United Nations conference on AIDS. A letter from Egypt on behalf of 51 countries in the Organization
New Delhi: Are you among those who feel miserable at work after a few extra drinks with your friends the past evening? Are headaches and uneasiness at work the next day keeping you away from
London: A fitness trainer who knowingly infected two unsuspecting young women with HIV has been jailed for five years.Simon James was awarded the sentence by a Bristol court in United Kingdom for failing to tell
Islamabad: Talking about AIDS is still taboo in Pakistan and the ban placed on a condom advertisement "shows also how reluctant we are to address crucial issues", said a Pakistani daily on Saturday.An editorial "Talking
Washington: In support of the World AIDS Day, the White House released an action plan for combating AIDS in the US over the next five years.As part of the Federal Action Plan for 2016-2020, 170
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.The
New Delhi: In an effort to enhance the information and treatment of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), National Aids Control Organization (NACO) has launched a mobile app called ‘HELP' for AIDS awareness and prevention. It's the
Los Angeles: Socialite Paris Hilton has made it her goal to help orphans all over the world after a trip to an orphanage in India changed her life."There's this one orphanage in India where all
Kendrapara (Odisha): While nation mourns the death of the "peoples' president", an orphaned girl from a far flung village of Odisha remembers the gesture of A P J Abdul Kalam towards her HIV positive siblings
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