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  NACO launches mobile app for HIV awareness

  India | September 26, 2015 12:29 IST

  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

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  India visit inspired Paris Hilton to help orphans

  Hollywood | August 08, 2015 8:11 IST

  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

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  How APJ Abdul Kalam saved HIV affected siblings

  India | July 29, 2015 13:45 IST

  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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  AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS

  World | July 15, 2015 0:04 IST

  Geneva: The AIDS epidemic can end by 2030, the UN said today, highlighting the global response that has averted 30 million new HIV infections worldwide in the last 15 years including in India, which ranks

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  North Korea Claims It Has Found Cure For MERS, Ebola, SARS And AIDS

  World | June 23, 2015 18:43 IST

  Seoul, South Korea (AP):  North Korea says it has succeeded where the greatest minds in science have failed.The authoritarian, impoverished nation better known for pursuing a nuclear program despite global criticism announced Friday it has

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  Story of a man living 4 years of happy married life with HIV+ wife

  India | May 25, 2015 13:20 IST

  Jalandhar: 23rd May might be a common day for all of us but for Rajat and Geet, it carries an altogether different meaning. It was a memorable day for both of them. Four years back,

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  India to host 5th meeting of SAARC Health Ministers today

  India | April 08, 2015 9:00 IST

  New Delhi: India is all set to host the fifth meeting of Health Ministers belonging to SAARC countries today to deliberate on key issues, including HIV/AIDS, prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and to strengthen

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  HIV spreads like 'computer worms'

  India | April 03, 2015 18:39 IST

  A recent study has revealed that HIV spreads throughout the body in a way similar to some computer worm hence early treatment may be the key to treat AIDS.The spread of HIV through the body

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  Cipla to launch generic Hepatitis C drug 'Hepcvir' in India

  March 25, 2015 16:27 IST

  Drug major Cipla today announced the launch of generic drug Sofosbuvir for treating chronic Hepatitis C under the brand name 'Hepcvir', in India."Following the non-exclusive licensing agreement signed with Gilead Sciences in September last year

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  Anti-herpes drug may help treat HIV: Study

  World | March 15, 2015 16:35 IST

  Washington: A common herpes drug can reduce the levels of HIV infection, a new study has found.The finding rebuts earlier scientific assumptions that Valacyclovir (Valtrex) required the presence of the other infection to benefit patients

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  IIT graduate murders family fearing AIDS infection, later tests negative

  India | March 13, 2015 11:19 IST

  New Delhi: A 39-year old IITian from Betul in Madhya Pradesh killed his wife and kids ablaze in a car fearing of being infected by HIV virus.He also made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide

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  Her baby was crying for milk, but she didn't feed him!

  Life | February 19, 2015 16:16 IST

  A mother-child bond is sealed with first breast-feed, but what if someone chooses to deny it?Women are blessed to be born with 'maternal instinct', a thing which no other thing could ever replace in someone's'

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  HC notice to centre, Delhi government on inmates' condition

  India | February 11, 2015 14:20 IST

  New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments on the deplorable conditions of undertrial prisoners, including women, in Tihar Jail here.A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini

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  Social media and behavioural psychology can help fight AIDS

  December 30, 2014 7:51 IST

  New Delhi: Social media such as Twitter and Facebook can be a valuable tool in the fight against HIV, a new study has found.Researchers demonstrated social media can prompt high-risk populations to request at-home testing

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  NGO intervenes after Himachal school bars HIV+ woman from cooking

  India | December 19, 2014 13:53 IST

  Shimla: An HIV positive woman employed as a cook in a government school in Himachal's Kangra district was barred from cooking until an NGO persuaded the authorities to take her back."For three days I was

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  More than 70 percent of HIV-AIDS patients not diagnosed

  India | December 16, 2014 11:48 IST

  Kolkata: More than 70 percent of people suffering from HIV-AIDS are not diagnosed and are not aware that they are suffering from the dreaded disease.  I S Gilada, president of AIDS society of India, said

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  Over 900 new HIV cases in Pakistan

  World | November 28, 2014 12:07 IST

  Islamabad: At least 994 new HIV/AIDS cases have been detected across Sindh province in Pakistan this year, according to a media report."These numbers could be alarming for everyone, but this reflects the efficiency of our

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  India faces shortage of crucial HIV drug

  India | October 02, 2014 11:16 IST

  New Delhi: Many of the 2.1 million HIV-affected patients in India could be in for difficulties with the government facing shortage of a critical medicine which is distributed free.Tenofovir/lamivudine tablets may run out of stock,

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  Woman's body is a temple, says Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, social media outraged

  Politics | August 29, 2014 12:36 IST

  New Delhi: Union Health Minister seems to have developed a knack for getting into controversy through his remarks. This time he is finding himself in the firing line over her description of a woman's body

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  Manohar Parrikar shares meal with HIV+ children

  India | August 17, 2014 11:36 IST

  Panaji: At a time when the nation debated a controversial demand for a special ‘bikini beach' in Goa, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was fulfilling a promise lost in the hullabaloo of the two-piece bathing accessory.Parrikar