Global AIDS - India

Global Strategies for HIV Prevention

Comments compiled on a recent media article on the HIVNET 012 Uganda study

A Major Breakthrough for children living with HIV

UNICEF hails cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces death rates among children with HIV.

Stigma & Discrimination

An updated report from the Freedom Foundation

The excellent work of the Nrityanjali Academy

The Nrityanjali Academy is a non-profit voluntary organisation working in the field of STD/HIV/AIDS for the past eight years in the Slums and Villages of Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Rangareddy villages.

Stigma & Discrimination
The Bad News & The Good News

The following item was posted onto the AIDS-INDIA e forum Sept 22, 2004
Subject: Re: Who will help an Australian agency to help? Re: Indian tribal village boycott

India Surpasses S. Africa In AIDS Cases
- Rajesh Mahapatra

Groundbreaking Thai/Australian Partnership Initiative

Clinical Trials Announced Into Efficacy of Limes (or lemons) as Nature’s Microbicide to Combat HIV/AIDS!

Agreement on Eve of XV International AIDS
Conference in Bangkok

Mechai Viravaidya

Prof. Roger V.Short A.M.

Thailand government is to fund clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of lime juice - first as a contraceptive and then as nature's own microbicide to combat HIV/AIDS.

The so-called Manoi (Lime) Trial was given the go-ahead nod at a top level meeting at the Thai Ministry of Health in Bangkok on May 4, 2004.

Circumcision, condoms and lemon juice

“In Press, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 2004”
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic: New Ways of Preventing Infection in Men - Professor R. V. Short FAA, FRS

A special cause for Rotary International?

A dramatically moving invitation is being offered to Rotary International to take up the battle against global HIV/AIDS as its next special cause following on its magnificent efforts to beat world polio.

The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated and AIDS Information Services fully endorses the invitation.

India's Bishops seek mandatory HIV tests before marriage

India's Roman Catholic bishops have asked the federal government to make HIV and AIDS tests compulsory before granting marriage licenses to help prevent the spread of the deadly disease.

India's HIV positive children to get free drugs

HIV-positive children will get free drugs. Sushma makes a promise which will cost ministry thrice its budget.

India! -610,000 new HIV cases in 2002
Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report

India recorded about 610,000 new HIV cases last year, as the virus spreads into the general population mainly through sex between married men and sex workers, according to a study released Thursday.

A New & Vital book

Strategic & Planning Concepts for India's Response to HIV/AIDS - By Rajendra Jani

The book will be relevant & useful to all those interested in joining the battle against HIV/AIDS. Policy influencers, decision makers & project managers all will find something relevant in the book with direct applicability. Thus, the book is targeted at donors, State AIDS control societies, NGOs & all other stakeholders participating in India's response to HIV.

Uncircumcised Indian men have 8 times higher HIV risk

According to a study of 2298 Indian men presented on Thursday at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America by Dr Steven Reynolds of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, uncircumcised men have an 8 fold higher risk of becoming infected with HIV compared to circumcised men.

Within a few days of receiving our request, President Kalam kindly sent us this photograph of himself with the children and their grandfather, for which we are very grateful.

It sends a powerful message as to how stigma on a national scale may be alleviated by so boldly involving such targetted children in HIV/AIDS Awareness campaigns.

We commend the President's action and the courage of those children and their families to all nations struggling to cope with discrimination which is so much responsible for the ongoing global spread of the disease.

The Australian AIDS Fund has sent special messages to the President of India and India's Union Minister for Health.

For the history of our earlier involvement - Click Here

The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated, a Melbourne-based AIDS care charity and agency of Catholic Social Services Victoria, has expressed its outrage to the President of India over the reported stoning to death of an HIV-infected widow in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, whose husband had died of AIDS.

Ineffective HIV Strategies in India

World Population Day

As the world marks World Population Day, the International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS commemorates the loss of over 1 million women around the world, who died with AIDS during this last year.

AIDS in India, Reaction to Stoning Death

HIV Woman in India Stoned to death

A woman was stoned to death because her neighbors thought they would get AIDS from her! A widow whose husband had died of AIDS was stoned to death after a series of incidents involving her and her neighbors.

Indian Children with HIV

The impact of the HIV epidemic on children has been complex and diverse. The stigma and discrimination faced by persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs) is compounded in the case of children.

Police abuse in Kerala

India in Dire straits

The epidemic of HIV/AIDS in India is following the same pattern as that of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s, and it could become just as devastating unless preventive action is taken now.