Hepatitis C: Cure and control, right now!

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Hepatitis C (Hep C) is preventable World Hepatitis Day: 28 July Hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection occurs in an estimated one quarter ...

Prevent TB: IPT works, IPT is safe

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TB is preventable : IPT works! In Lesotho, Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) to prevent latent TB infection from becoming active TB dise...

AIDS: Where Goes the Money?

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JUST how much money are the recipients of AIDS funds putting into programmes that have a real impact on communities affected by the disease...

TB Cough-in/Coffin March: TB on IAC agenda as never before

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( photographs ) : It was one of those defining moments in history of legendary AIDS activism at the International AIDS Conferences when the ...

Why?

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When I question why a public bus over speeds or cars and trucks park wrongly most simply stare... Read more

Stop TB Partnership signs MoU with UNAIDS to improve TB-HIV responses

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Marcos Espinal (L)-  Michel Sidibe  (R) In a historic and a (very) long overdue moment, finally, the Stop TB Partnership signed a memora...

TB-HIV co-infection: Giving ART and Treating TB slow HIV progression

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Dr Gabriel Chamie UCSF GIVE ART TO ALL HIV INFECTED TB PATIENTS REGARDLESS OF CD4 COUNT The message was clear: Putting TB-HIV co-infecte...

Spain should increase investment in tuberculosis R & D

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The Spanish government was encouraged to invest in tuberculosis research and development (R&D) as part of its policy of international co...

Punitive laws limit access to HIV services for MSM and transgender people: UN Study

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John Godwin Listen to audio podcast here The United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) released a study analyzing evidence in Asia...

Make Art, Stop AIDS

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Daniel Goldstein, sculpture and artist There are three sculptures in the hall with session rooms at the XVIII International AIDS Conferen...

Can TB patients say "Rights Here, Right Now"?

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It is beyond doubt that community-led health responses have yielded satisfying results, yet genuine involvement of affected communities in T...

Fund the Global Fund to save lives from AIDS, TB, Malaria: "Here I Am" ambassador

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Since its inception in 2001, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM/ The Global Fund ) has saved approximately 5.7 million li...

Developed countries stop using arm-twisting measures in FTAs

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To listen to AUDIO recording , click here In Guatemala the prices of some drugs went up by 845,000 times The European Union’s actions are...

Red Ribbon Express begins its Journey in Uttar Pradesh

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It was a monumental event as the Red Ribbon Express rolled into Chopan a small district in Sonebhadra UP on July 17, 2010. Received with mu...

Only Rights Can Stop The Wrongs

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9 out 0f 10 MSM/transgender do not receive any prevention, treatment, care or support services Human rights are fundamentally applicable to...

A new TB vaccine could be ready by 2020

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The current tools are not enough to control tuberculosis epidemic. The 2009 World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Control Repo...

Priority is to up collaborative TB-HIV activities

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There is convincing evidence that scaling up collaborative TB-HIV activities, improve TB and HIV programme performances. “In 2008, there wer...

Criminalization of injecting drug users (IDU) fuels HIV epidemic

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The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequ...

Rights Here, Right Now: Where Are They For The Gay?

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The XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC) will take place in Vienna, Austria, (18-23 July 2010). The conference theme, Rights Here, Rig...

A childhood free from tuberculosis (TB)

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a major killer of children in poor countries. Over 250,000 children develop TB and every one minute two children die of...

Turning the Page to a New Era in HIV Prevention Research

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AVAC Report warns promising developments in biomedical HIV prevention could be undermined by current conditions of the global AIDS response...

Another HIV+ woman commits suicide: Will XVIII IAC address stigma?

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Just a week before the world's largest AIDS Conference opens in Vienna, Austria, yet another woman has committed suicide on being told ...

Red Ribbon Express: On track to good health

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It's called the express of hope . After completing a successful run through 100 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu educating and sensi...

Prof Rama Kant awarded FRCSI by Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

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Professor (Dr) Rama Kant was conferred upon the Fellowship by Special Election of the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (F...

Exclusive breastfeeding can save 22.3% infant deaths

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1-7 August 2010: World Breastfeeding Week Statistics state that 270,000 infants born in Uttar Pradesh (UP) die in the first month of their ...

APCOM to tackle HIV among MSM and transgender people in Asia Pacific

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The Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health ( APCOM ) has moved from an interim governance structure to one incorporating a Governing ...

Celebrating Diversity And Inclusiveness In The Age Of Consent

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One year ago, on July 2nd 2009, a Delhi High Court division bench of Chief Justice AP Shah and Justice S Muralidhar said "We declare th...

James Connolly Committed to Accelerating the Development of New Vaccines to Prevent TB

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The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation today announced that James E. Connolly has been named President and Chief Executive Officer. He join...

Kandhamal lesson: A stitch in time saves Nine

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29th June 2010 must be considered an important day in the history of Indian judicial system. Not that some new law was promulgated on that d...

Outrage against delay in pictorial warnings on tobacco products in India

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In a detractive decision of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GOI), the implementation of new pictori...

Jha Commission begins inquiry into fake registries at Alirajpur

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Justice Shravan Shankar Jha Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Madhya Pradesh (MP) High Court in August 2008 to enquire into the mult...

People's Tribunal led by Justice AP Shah calls for review of Narmada Projects

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Tribunal expresses grave concern on severe non-compliance by authorities A Panel of eminent citizens who came together as an Independent Pe...

Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) issues legal notice to MoEF on Narmada Canals issue

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A legal notice was issued by the Narmada Bachao Andolan to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, on the issue of co...