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Twenty Seventh Issue : February-March, 2008
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).
CII Vizag Chairman Dr Varma Vegesna said a serious gap existed in addressing issues with regards to good laboratory practices, universal precautions and needle stick injuries that need to be address.
To read more: The Hindu, Date: 12th February 2008-
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.
To read more: http://mangalorean.com/
"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.
This year alone (by the end of November), 323 personnel of the three armed forces - army, navy and air force - have been detected with the HIV/AIDS. In 2006, health authorities had found 409 HIV positive cases among the armed forces.
"We (the armed forces) have a strength of around 1.5 million. There are mainly two ways through which these people are getting infected - unsafe sex and injectible drug use. We have 10 centres across the country to treat such personnel," Singh told reporters.
Female condom for Rs 5 in India
A five-rupee female condom (FC) will now spearhead India's fight to control HIV spread among women.
Under the first phase, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) is procuring 15 lakh female condoms from UK's Female Health Company (FHC), which will be doled out to sex workers and housewives in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal over the next 8 months. A decision on a countrywide upscale will be undertaken after reviewing data from these four states.
According to Naco director-general K Sujatha Rao, a year-long pre-programme acceptability and feasibility study, involving 60,000 women in 13 sites - 11 involving high risk groups like sex workers and two family planning programmes - in eight states from November 2006, found 60% women re-purchasing the condom and over 98% of the users finding it comfortable. Naco through UNFPA had procured five lakh condoms from FHC for its acceptability study.
To Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/AIDS awareness campaign
NEW DELHI: An AIDS awareness campaign organised by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation began in the Capital. The first event was a sensitisation workshop where safety managers and other senior contractors’ staff were provided information about HIV and AIDS.
To read more: http://www.hindu.com/
The Voluntary Health Association of India, a non-government organisation, is the implementing agency for this campaign.
"Managers and other staff members were made aware of all aspects of HIV/AIDS including its mode of spread and symptoms, vulnerability of the migrant population to HIV and the role that managers and other senior staff can play in reducing the vulnerability of the labour force. Information regarding voluntary counselling and testing centres was also made available during the workshop," said a DMRC spokesperson
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