The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, India today gave its approval for implementation of project entitled ?prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS? with financial outlay of Rs.342.81 crore awarded by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Round II funding) as additionality over and above the provision for integrated National AIDS Control Programme (NACP).
Using hormonal contraception does not appear to increase women’s overall risk of infection with the AIDS virus, report the authors of a large study commissioned by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.
Results of a new study supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, suggest that young African American adults ? but not young white adults ? are at high risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) even when their relative level of risky behaviors is low.
Bill Clinton, former President of USA, says India is the new epicenter of the global pandemic of HIV. He commented this with British interviewers on the World AIDS Day.
President George W. Bush marked Worlds AIDS Day on Friday by declaring: “The pandemic of HIV/AIDS can be defeated.” Bush’s AIDS initiative, announced in 2003, is the largest international health initiative dedicated to a single disease.
Surveillance for the HIV virus is weak in most of the world and prevention and treatment programmes often fail to reach high-risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers, the World Health Organisation said.
Promises are important on the football pitch and in life. Promises are made to be kept.
While HIV/AIDS is clearly a health problem, the world has come to realize it is also a development problem that threatens human welfare, socio-economic advances, productivity, social cohesion, and even national security.
We are now more than 25 years into this epidemic. People living with HIV and their communities urgently need to see tangible results.
Those of you who are young today can actually stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Forty million people are infected with HIV/AIDS, which makes it the most serious health-related catastrophe of modern times.