World No Tobacco Day - a critical point in the Year of the Lung

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31 May is World No Tobacco Day The World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2010, is a critical point in the 2010: Year of the Lung campaign , accordin...

Lubricants' use may put individuals at higher risk of HIV

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To listen to the audio podcast of this interaction, click here " Use of lubricants may put individuals at higher risk " said Pro...

We Need A Lifetime Of No Tobacco, And Not Merely A Day

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The World No Tobacco day is once again upon us to remind us politely that health is a concern of everyone. From personal physical fitness t...

Say Yes To Life: Say No To Tobacco

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World No Tobacco Day is on 31 May 2010 The theme of this year's World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is " Gender and tobacco with an emphasi...

Omololu Falobi Award to Charles Shagi from Tanzania

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To listen to the audio podcast of 2010 Omololu Falobi Award ceremony (at the M2010 closing ceremony) click here "Omololu Falobi liv...

Not just a handmaiden: Critical role of social science in HIV Prevention Research

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To listen to the audio podcast , click here It is well understood that both the efficacy and effectiveness of HIV Prevention research trial...

Using ARVs to Prevent HIV Could Result in Drug Resistance

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Their scientific methods may have been quite different, but their conclusions were not. In asking whether drug resistance could be a problem...

Microbicides that do more than gel

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A flexible ring containing two anti-HIV drugs showed in laboratory tests that it can deliver therapeutic levels of both drugs for up to 30 d...

Pregnancy Doubles HIV Risk in Men; First Trial of a Microbicide in Pregnant Women

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Young women of reproductive-age are among those at greatest risk of acquiring HIV, and several studies have suggested that during pregnan...

State of the ART of microbicides

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To listen to the audio podcast of Prof Robin Shattock click here The microbicides field has undoubtedly moved and shifted a lot in the pa...

Prerna Sabha in memory of Ashishbhai at Badwani on May 26th

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PRERNA SABHA: 26TH MAY, RAJGHAT, NARMADA BANK As we all still try to come to terms with the devastating news of the untimely and unfortunat...

Jabalpur High Court acts on complaint of Justice Jha Commission on non-provision of funds by MP Govt

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A Division Bench of Justice Shri K K Lahoti and Justice Shri Ajit Singh, issued notices to the Principal Secretary, General Administration D...

Shabana Azmi joins Sathenagar slum-dwellers' demand for justice

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MUMBAI'S POOR MARCH TO HIRANANDANI GARDENS: EXPOSE REAL ENCROACHERS As the indefatigable Satyagraha of thousands of Mumbai’s slum-dwell...

Homophobia Is A Human Rights Issue

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"In order to prevent and control HIV we must protect and promote the human rights of the homosexuals - the most vulnerable and typical...

Speak The Unspeakable and Do The Unthinkable

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The age old issue dealing with the problems of people with alternate sexuality was discussed threadbare, on the occasion of International Da...

An AIDS Vaccine is Possible: HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (18th May)

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HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, 18th May Approximately 7500 people newly infected with HIV every day. In this scenario, the development of an AI...

Punitive and Discriminatory Laws limit access to HIV prevention and care services for MSM

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More than 90 percent of men having sex with men in the Asia Pacific region do not have access to HIV prevention and care services. HIV preva...

Mumbai's slum-dwellers embark on Visthapan Virodhi Yatra

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The agitation for Right to housing and land for the poor, continues with increased support from various organisations, at Anna Bhau Sathe Na...

Climate of state-sponsored homophobia ups HIV rates: amfAR announces grants

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The International Day Against Homophobia ( IDAHO ) on 17th of May, provides yet another opportunity to talk about the wave of discriminatio...

Sexuality-related stigma impedes access to existing services

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Globally, men who have sex with men (MSMs) and transgenders have a higher rate of HIV incidence, due to appalling attention towards their he...

International Day Against Homophobia: Protect the right to life with dignity of LGBT community

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17th of May is International Day Against Homophobia Well, why do we need to celebrate such a day? "Homophobia is expressed in ways whic...

Leading NGOs applaud decision to tackle non-communicable diseases

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United Nations (UN) NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE SUMMIT TO FOCUS ON LONG-TERM KILLER DISEASES THAT THREATEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN LOW- AND MIDD...

Media Nest focusses on tobacco control

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"Both the use and acceptance of tobacco usage is on the increase. This is indeed a very alarming sign for society. The Indian anti-toba...

Tobacco Laws And Their Implementation – The Horror of Reality

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[To see CNS photo gallery of this event, click here ] Are the tobacco control laws, as envisaged in the COTPA (Cigarettes and Other Tob...

Weak implementation of tobacco control laws in Lucknow: Loreto College Students

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[To see CNS photo gallery of this event, click here ] Are the tobacco control laws, as envisaged in the COT PA (Cigarettes and Other Tobac...

Governments in South-East Asia detain thousands in abusive drug detention centres

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A new report " Detention as Treatment: Detention of Methamphetamine Users in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand " released last week doc...

Deconstruct stereotypes: Let men and women be good human beings

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Give me a handful of energetic youth and I will transform India , had said Vivekanand, who recognised the potential of youth power and had ...

Victory for access to medicines as Valaganciclovir patent is overturned

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International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the decision by the Indian Patent Office to set asi...

Too little attention given to AIDS Orphans and vulnerable children

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World AIDS Orphans Day: May 7 More than 15 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS – equivalent to the number of p...

Involve men to check violence against women

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The need to involve men to check violence against women has recently emerged as a strong tool for effective handling of the issue. Understan...

Supreme Court accepts right to rehabilitation of Narmada canal affected

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In an interim order passed today in the Special Leave Petition in appeal against the judgement of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh High Cour...

Modi's SSP Politics misleading: No final permission to raise dam height yet

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MODI's SARDAR SAROVAR POLITICS shall neither benefit Gujarat nor Narmada Valley The politics around Narmada only continues to get worse...

Environmental Expert Committee submits its report indicting government of Madhya Pradesh

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Devendra Pandey Committee has submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) its 3rd interim report, especially on the Command A...