Full Coverage: AIDS

28.06.2006 "Youth take charge!" This was the clarion call given by the Indian government as Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat launched YUVA (Youth Unite for Victory on AIDS) in Delhi. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been the "most serious public health problem faced by the country since independence."

28.06.2006 With the first phase of the AIDS vaccine human trial being kicked off in the city, scientists involved in the trial are looking at absorbing more volunteers for the second such vaccine trial in the country.

27.06.2006 Durante cinco días, este mes de junio se realizó la Reunión de Alto Nivel para la Revisión del Cumplimiento de los Compromisos de UNGASS. Este es un resumen de la declaraicón final de este encuentro.

23.06.2006 A workshop on ethical guidelines for reporting HIV and AIDS was organised by the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) in collaboration with UNICEF to educate the people about the disease.

22.06.2006 28 líderes de once estados venezolanos participaron el pasado mes de Mayo en el taller “Capacitación de Líderes comunitarios en participación ciudadana”.

22.06.2006 Families in Rachi, capital of Jharkhand state of India are now insisting on HIV tests ahead of marriages.Pathology labs in the city have registered an increase in the number of HIV tests, particularly during the marriage season.

20.06.2006 Reciente informe divulgado por las Naciones Unidas reveló que, desde 1981, 25 millones de personas murieron como consecuencia del VIH/Sida y otras 38 millones de personas viven con el virus, aunque muchos ni lo sepan.

20.06.2006 With a view to educate truckers about the prevention of AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) and other STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases), the Population Services International (PSI) in Bhopal has launched an intensive on-ground activity - 'Kaun Banega Sham Sitara' on National Highway Nos. 3 & 7 passing through Madhya Pradesh.

20.06.2006 For the first time in the country, experts from B J Medical College (BJMC) and NARI, in the western Indian state of Pune, have got together to study this threat and undertake cervical cancer screening for HIV-infected women.

15.06.2006 To create more awareness on HIV/AIDS, especially among the youth, UNICEF, in association with voluntary organisations, is training some young people to become peer educators.

15.06.2006 According to recent statistics from the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Clinic in Sri Lanka, there are currently 712 people in Sri Lanka living with HIV/AIDS.

14.06.2006 One fact went unnoticed in the UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic released last month: the figure of estimated AIDS deaths in India was over 4 lakh in 2005.This is the highest in the world—South Africa had an estimated figure of about 3.2 lakh for the same period.

13.06.2006 Sri Lanka's health ministry’s HIV/AIDS Unit has arranged to conduct an effective awareness programme on HIV/AIDS to the newly elected members of the local bodies.

12.06.2006 “Morte per diplomazia”: così Eric Sawyer, attivista sieropositivo americano, ha definito i risultati della II Conferenza dell'Onu sull’Aids conclusa la scorsa settimana a New York. A 5 anni dalla sottoscrizione di un piano globale per far fronte alla pandemia, che nel 2005 ha falcidiato quasi tre milioni di persone, la Conferenza dell’Ungass (la Sessione speciale dell'Onu per l'Aids) ha partorito infatti solo un documento non vincolante. “Scandalosa e mortale”, aveva stigmatizzato Kofi Annan la lentezza con cui i governi stanno affrontando il grande flagello che dagli anni ’80, quando fu scoperto il virus, ha mietuto più di 25 milioni di vittime. Nel mondo oggi quasi 40 milioni di persone soffrono della sindrome da immunodeficienza acquisita, il vero nome dell’Aids, e due terzi dei malati vivono nell’Africa nera. Si fa un gran parlare di Aids. Ma solo un sesto degli impegni sottoscritti nel 2001 con il primo Piano d’azione globale sono stati mantenuti. di Nicoletta Dentico

12.06.2006 La declaración política final surgida de la reunión ha sido interpretada como un fracaso no sólo por las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, sino también por varios gobiernos (en lenguaje diplomático) y por los propios artífices: los responsables de la agencia especializada ONUSIDA y el Secretario General, Kofi Annan.

12.06.2006 Para prevenir y atender la problemática del VIH en contextos socioculturales distintos al occidental se requiere diseñar estrategias diferenciadas, fue una de las conclusiones a la que llegaron los asistentes al Primer Foro Internacional Sobre VIH/sida y Pueblos Indios, que culminó este 3 de junio

09.06.2006 El combate a la discriminación que sufren más de 65 mil personas portadoras del Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana y Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (VIH/Sida), es uno de los principales ejes del proyecto “más derechos, menos discriminación”.

08.06.2006 Un firme desacuerdo con el proceso de revisión y evaluación que se adelantó la semana anterior en Nueva York durante la Reunión de Alto Nivel en Naciones Unidas –UNGASS 2006- manifestó la sociedad civil presente en el certamen.

07.06.2006 Niza Picasso Domínguez, de la Red Mexicana de Personas que viven con VIH/Sida, se pronunció por luchar para que la Declaración de la Sesión Especial sobre Sida de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas (UNGASS) se convierta en un Tratado y adquiera el peso necesario para aplicarlo.

07.06.2006 Fighting AIDS is getting them big business. Shrinking the massive battle against HIV/AIDS to the tiny space of the mobile phone screen, ZMQ Software Systems, which had launched the "Freedom HIV/AIDS" Mobile Games on the awareness of the disease on December 1, 2005 - World AIDS Day -- has become the first Indian company to be honoured by Global Business Coalition.