• CD4 Machines in all ART Centers
  Vishakhapatnam
  
  All the Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centers in the State District headquarters would be provided with the CD4 counting machines to detect HIV infections, announced State Additional Director of Medical and Health Services B Kalidas. Dr Kalidas who is also the additional project director of Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (APSACS) was participating in the HIV/AIDS and ART Training programme for Nurses and Lab Technicians under the auspices of the Vizag Chapter of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Australia India Council (AIC)......
  
  
• Indian armed forces have 6,180 HIV/AIDS patients
  Every day at least one member of the Indian armed forces is being detected with HIV/AIDS.
  
  "Every month we are getting 30 to 40 HIV/AIDS cases among our personnel. Currently we have 6,180 HIV/AIDS patients among our ranks, but the infection rate is lower than in civilians," Lieutenant-General Yogendra Singh, director general of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS), said here Saturday........
  
  
• India Inc pitches in with ART
  BHUBANESWAR: The combat against HIV/AIDS is set to get a fillip with India Inc pitching in with active support in Orissa.......
  
  
• GF Round 7. India to receive U$ 88,173,118
  (AIeF) Today, during the first day of its fourteenth board meeting held in Kunming, China, the Global Fund board approved U$ 88,173,118. for National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) proposal for "Strengthening human and institutional capacities of the National Health System to enable accelerated implementation of the National AIDS Control Program"......
  
  
• Majority feel children should be taught about HIV from age 13
  Notwithstanding the controversy over sex education in schools, a government survey has found that most people feel the right age to teach children about HIV and changes in their bodies....
  
  
• NACO, UNAIDS Join Hands To Combat HIV/AIDS In North-East
  Concerned over the alarming rise the HIV/AIDS cases in the Northeast, the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) in collaboration with UNAIDS, the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, launched....
  
  
• Increasing access to HIV testing: The new WHO/UNAIDS guidelines to increase the chances of HIV detection
  Believe it or not, nearly 80 per cent of people in low and middle-income countries seem to be just unaware that they are infected with HIV......
  
  
• One in four cannot afford AIDS drugs
  Though the number of people getting life saving antiretroviral drugs used to treat AIDS jumped by 54% in 2006, one in four people needing treatment still cannot afford the drugs, says UN report.......
  
  
• Breastfeeding helps reduce HIV transmission chances: Study Significant for India, where 30% AIDS patients are women
  HIV Positive mothers can significantly reduce the chances of their child becoming infected with virus by exclusively breastfeeding their baby till it reaches six months of age......
  
  
• AIDS kills, so does bias: Women suspected to be HIV + killed
  Living with HIV/AIDS is bad enough, but what's worse is to deal with a society that is insensitive, often brutal while dealing with them.....
  
  
• O&M's campaign on HIV/AIDS to address an affected woman's turmoil
  Last year, the human rights organization, Breakthrough, released a campaign targeting men ('What kind of man are you?'), which tried to make men...
  
  
• The positive population
  Times News Network
  3 July 2006....
  
  By December 2006, India will for the first time know the actual burden of HIV/AIDS in the country. The National Family Health Survey-III....
  
  
• India reaffirms fullest commitment in fight against AIDS
  Saturday, PTI
  3 June 2006....
  
  Reaffirming its "fullest commitment" to the global fight against HIV/AIDS, India has pledged to intensify efforts to fight stigma and discrimination.......
  
  
• A Truckers Utsav
  The Financial Express
  June, Sunday, 2006...
  
  A truckers' meet spreads awareness to check the virus ...
  
  
• Goan lifestyle vulnerable to AIDS, says Governor
  The Navhind Times - Panjim,India
  Friday, June 09, 2006....
  
  Panaji, June 8: The Governor, Mr S C Jamir today observed that Goa, by way of its lifestyle, is vulnerable to HIV/AIDS...
  
  
• Africa rises to HIV drug challenge
  BBC News - UK
  Thursday, June 08 2006....
  
  Africa is stepping up efforts to manufacture its own life-saving medicines, so that it does not have to rely on supplies from Western pharmaceutical companies...
  
  
• Haath Se Haath Mila, HIV/AIDS Ko Bhagaa !
  Televisionpoint.com - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
  Thursday, June 08, 2006....
  
  Haath Se Haath Mila, the 52-episode reality show is already on air on Doordarshan, it shows a top Bollywood star in close interaction with youth achievers who work to bring about HIV/AIDS awareness....
  
  
• Govt to treat 100,000 AIDS patients for free
  Press Trust of India
  Sunday, February 19, 2006....
  
  Government will increase the number of people getting free anti-aids treatment to 100,000 patients...
  
  
• TRC to develop MVA-II
  UNI, Chennai
  February 26, 2006....
  
  The Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), Chennai is going to develop a Modified Vaccine Ankara-II
  
  
• IIM-A introduces course on HIV/AIDS
  NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
  Friday, January 13, 2006 (Ahmedabad)
  
  India's most premier B-School, the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has initiated a managerial programme on HIV/AIDS......
  
  

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