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HIV woman refused admission
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Monday, May 31, 2010 |
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An HIV-positive woman was forced to give birth to her baby by the roadside after a government-run hospital allegedly refused her admission, reports The Times Of India. |
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Action taken against doctors for humiliating HIV patient
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Sunday, June 21, 2009 |
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The Gujarat government has suspended three officials of the Guru Govind civil hospital in Jamnagar following complaints of inhuman treatment to a HIV-positive patient. The hospital sources said the nurse handling the out-patient department was only told to give a mark to the HIV patient so that proper care was taken by the medical staff in providing her treatment, reports The Hindu. |
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HIV patient humiliated, paraded with a sticker on her forehead
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Saturday, June 20, 2009 |
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A 40-year-old pregnant woman was paraded with a sticker on her forehead saying 'HIV positive' at a local Government hospital. The incident occurred at the hospital where she had gone for blood tests as part of routine check-up. After the blood reports came, the woman alleged doctors and staff members ‘humiliated’ her by sticking a label saying 'HIV positive' on her forehead and paraded her in the hospital, reports Indian Express. |
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HIV AIDS orphans millions in Nigeria
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
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The president of Association for Reproductive And Family Health, Prof. Oladipo Ladipo said that of the 8.5 million orphans in the country, two million of them were orphaned by the dreaded HIV/AIDS. He expressed happiness that the National prevalence Rate of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria has dropped from 5.8 percent in 1998 to about 3.6 percent in 2008. According to him, "this is encouraging, but we should not rest on our oars," writes Abdul Azeez Sanni. |
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Kerala reserves government job for HIV positive
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
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This is a quota that is unlikely to be embroiled in a debate about merit dilution and fairness. Kerala became the first Indian state on Tuesday to reserve a government job for HIV positive candidates, marking a new sensitivity for those afflicted with the killer virus, reports Times of India. |
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Three persons with AIDS killed by kin
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
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A family of a 45-year-old farmer, consisting of his son and wife were killed by their relatives after it was discovered that the family had HIV-AIDS. The relatives presumed them to be outcasts and felt that if they interacted with them, they too will get the infection and thus they murdered all three and burned them, reports Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui from Times of India. |
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Continued stigma against HIV positive people in West Bengal
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
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The litany of woes related to HIV/AIDS continues unabated in the rural fringes of West Bengal. This was proven recently, when a 27-year old woman and her family were ostracised by their neighbours at their village near Kolaghat after she tested HIV positive. According to the family members, the victim, mother of a seven-year-old daughter, was diagnosed to have been infected three months ago and underwent treatment for about 75 days at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, reports the Statesman |
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AIDS patients to get second-line drug free
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Friday, June 27, 2008 |
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The National AIDS Control Board (NACB), has decided to roll out life-saving second-line ART drugs free to HIV patients in Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad from September 2008. The hospitals identified to provide the treatment include Maulana Azad Medical College (Delhi), Gandhi Hospital (Hyderabad), School of Tropical Medicine (Kolkata) and B J Medical College (Ahmedabad). NACB also cleared four states - Manipur, Karnataka, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh - where second-line drugs will be rolled out from December, reports Kounteya Sinha in the Times of India |
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Hiv/Aids Will Undermine Treatment For Other Diseases
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 |
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic has remained the highest-profile public health
challenge, although more people die from curable diseases. Last year the UNAIDS estimate of the number of people living with HIV/AIDS was reduced from 40 million to 33.2 million, writes Thompson Ayodele in Daily Independent
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