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Nineteen Issue : June, 2007
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  • 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. Currently, there are 39.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, 5.7 million of them in India. The report, called Towards Universal Access: Scaling up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in Health Sector, was jointly released by World Heath Organisation (WHO), UNAIDS and UNICEF on Wednesday.

    Of the roughly 39.5 million people living with HIV or AIDS at the end of the last year, around 7.1 million people in low and middle income countries were sick enough to need anti retroviral drugs. By the end of 2006, about 2.015 million of these 7.1 million has access to the drugs, which is about 28% of people needing treatment.

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    19th April- 2007


  • Nigerian government approves policy to address HIV/AIDS in Workplace

    The Nigerian government has approved a policy that aims to bolster the response to HIV/AIDS in the country's workforce, Minister of Labour and Productivity Hassan Lawal announced on Monday in Abuja, Nigeria, This Day/AllAfrica.com reports. According to Lawal, the policy provides guidelines that aim to assist in the establishment of workplace HIV/AIDS policies in the formal and informal sectors. He said the policy also aims to protect the rights of people living with and affected by HIV, as well as to provide information about options of recourse if they experience discrimination. In addition, the policy aims to increase the capacity of management and workers in handling HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace, Lawal said. Lawal announced the policy at the launch of an International Labour Organisation report, called "Equality at Work: Tackling the Challenge."

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  • India's promotion of Sex Education to reduce spread of HIV causing Debate

    Recent attempts by the Indian government to promote sex education in schools have caused a "morality debate" between some educators who say that sex education will reduce the spread of HIV and "critics who fear it will corrupt young minds," Reuters reports. India's government wants the country's 29 states and seven federally administered regions to fight the spread of HIV by promoting knowledge about safer-sex practices, according to Reuters. Some health experts have said that if steps are not taken to fight the spread of the virus, the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the country could increase from 5.7 million to more than 20 million by 2010, Reuters reports.

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  • Business begin to spread awareness about AIDS/HIV

    After the success of condom bar in Chandigarh the focus has now shifted tp the issue of protecting people against deadly HIV/AIDS. Industries up North have taken up cudgels and are working towards creating more awareness in the vulnerable groups.

    In recent past, many companies in the IT/ITeS Sector have come up in the region, apart from manufacturing sector. This makes workplace intervention even more necessary,” quips Sonia Trikha, project director State Aids Control Society. (SACS).

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    19th May- 2007


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