HIV-AIDS AWARENESS

UNICEF has announced the launch of a new advertising campaign aimed at dispelling stigma on HIV transmission from parent to child.  The themed advertisements encourage parents to “Give Life” to their unborn babies getting tested for HIV early in pregnancy to access effective interventions currently provided for free in public health care facilities to help reduce the risk of HIV transmission...

The Railway Age dawned in India in 1853, with the first train to run from Bombay to Thana, a distance of 21 miles. Over 150 years later, the extensive Indian railway network covering almost 70,000 miles is transporting more than passengers and cargo across the continent. Now it is also a vital conduit for raising AIDS awareness. On World AIDS Day 2007, Sonia Ghandi, one of India's ...

Red Ribbon Expess, carrying messages to promote public awareness about HIV/AIDS, arrived on Saturday to a warm welcome by people from various walks of life. The specially designed train, which has travelled approximately 4,000 km across the country covering 13 states, arrived at Secunderabad station. Representatives of NGOs working in the area of HIV awareness, people living with ...

Getting infected with HIV that causes AIDS will no longer automatically exclude people from getting a health insurance cover. There are 2.5 million people living with HIV in India. Since they are not covered by any health insurance scheme, they have to pay from their pocket for the treatment of frequent opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis and pneumonia that their low immunity exposes ...

Access Bank Plc last week in Kaduna, at the Fifth Chukker Polo Resort, showed how a determined responsible lifestyle will lead to an ultimate triumph over the pandemic, HIV/AIDS, when its team at the on-going Emir of Katsina Charity Shield Polo Tournament defeated their Barbedos opponents by 12 goals to 8, despite a 2- goal handicap advantage given to them.The Access Bank team, which comprised ...

BDV-672933-BDVThree years ago, Janine married Gary, her high school sweetheart. Gary was handsome, charming, successful, and an excellent father to Janine's teenage children from a previous marriage. They bought a beautiful brand new home in the suburbs and Janine thought she was living the American dream. That is until the day she listened to Gary's voice messages and heard another man calling ...

HIV is an abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS as it is generally called, is the result of this virus. When a person has AIDS, the immune system gradually break downs. The patient then becomes highly susceptible to infections and illnesses, which could even, be fatal. History dates its origin to June 5th 1981 in Los Angeles where the virus was ...

In 1981, scientists in the United States and France first recognized the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which was later discovered to be caused by a virus called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). HIV breaks down the body's immunity to infections leading to AIDS. The virus can lie hidden in the body for up to 10 years without producing any obvious symptoms or before developing ...

HIV has many different strands or forms making it almost impossible to find an efficient answer for vaccination. Over in other countries (Asia and Africa to name a few) where there is prostitution, scientists have discovered that prostitutes have become immune to the virus in a couple different ways. Scientists have discovered that the immune system of prostitutes has found a way to fight the ...

Now a day AIDS is increasing all over the world in an enormous position. No country could face it successfully. It turns very unique position in some countries of Africa like Uganda, Gayer, Cambodia, and Sub Sahara region etc. East Asian some countries are also affected by this. In South Asian country like India is the second largest country in the world for HIV/ AIDS. There are 5.1 million ...

Women are in nature more vulnerable than men to HIV infection. “Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation” have found that male to female transmission appears to be 2 to 4 times more efficient than female to male transmission, in part because semen contains a far higher concentration of HIV than vaginal fluid. Adolescent girls are predominantly vulnerable. Their immature cervixes and low vaginal ...

Worldwide, rates of sexually transmitted infections among young people are soaring: one-third of the 340 million new STIs each year occur in people under 25 years of age. Each year, more than one in every 20 adolescents contracts a curable STI. More than half of all new HIV infections occur in people between the ages of 15 to 24 years. The sexual health needs for adolescent girls are generally ...

The view of poor & developing countries, In generally we found that women & adolescent girls are more vulnerable to HIV infection on each sexual encounter because of the biological nature of the process and the vulnerability of the reproductive tract tissues to the virus, especially in adolescent girls. For example, young women are generally disadvantaged by gender disparities. In terms ...

The over all HIV/AIDS epidemics situation is low in Bangladesh. But it is increasing very high in some heterogeneous group who are actually vulnerable of HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS spread out very quickly in all over the population. There are many ways in Bangladesh to HIV/AIDS increasing issue. The cause of poverty, gender discrimination, low prevalence of health facility, lack of reproductively ...

Although Bangladesh continues to be a low prevalence area, it is surrounded by high prevalence countries (High prevalence of HIV/AIDS in neighboring India). We however must not adopt a complacent attitude in respect as our country has all the determinants for an explosive outbreak of HIV/AIDS epidemic. Curses of poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, proximity of Bangladesh to the so-called 'Golden ...

Bangladesh, with a population of 136 million, had about 13,000 adults and children living with HIV infection at the end 2002, according to UNAIDS estimates. However, only 248 HIV cases have actually been reported. Significant underreporting of cases occurs because of the country's limited voluntary testing and counseling capacity and the social stigma, which leads to the fear of being identified ...

HIV/AIDS: COMPLEMENTARY MANAGEMENT VIA IMMUNE-ENHANCEMENT Latest technology complementary and supportive products are achieving remarkable results. A leading firm of clinical consultants who have been contracting to Medical Aid Funds to manage approximately 6 500 persons living with HIV/AIDS on an ongoing basis for many years, reports as follows: "We are contracted to render HIV disease ...

AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome it causes a destruction of the immune system. It is the most advanced stage of the HIV virus (HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus). AIDS is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the presence of a positive HIV antibody test and one or more of the illnesses known as opportunistic infections. The HIV virus...

At present, there is no scientifically proved cure for HIV /AIDS. Globally, the number of infected HIV /AIDS patients is increasing at an alarming rate; with a current estimate of 33.2 million people who are living with HIV 1. Hence, there is a dire need to search for a safe, effective and economical treatment for HIV /AIDS. In a retrospective study in 55 patients, Ayurvedic treatment has proved...

Autum Aquino of Bangor, whose early advocacy for AIDS awareness and education brought her national recognition, died unexpectedly Thursday at Eastern Maine Medical Center. Aquino was exposed to human immunodeficiency virus in her mother’s womb and diagnosed with the infection when she was 2 years old. After the deaths of her parents, she was raised by relatives in Hampden. She was just 23 when ...

From the time that HIV/AIDS was identified (during the early 1980s) till date, there is no definite treatment that can completely cure a person of an HIV infection. The medicines usually prescribed by the doctors only offer symptomatic relief from the opportunistic infections associated with the disease.All over the globe, medical research is in progress to develop that 'wonder drug' which can ...

HIV is an abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS as it is generally called, is the result of this virus. When a person has AIDS, the immune system gradually break downs. The patient then becomes highly susceptible to infections and illnesses, which could even, be fatal. History dates its origin to June 5th 1981 in Los Angeles where the virus was ...

After more than 10 years of researching better treatments for HIV patients, a new drug had been found in UK to lengthen the life expectancy of the victims. The recent introduction of Pfizer's drug Celsentri (Maraviroc) is truly helpful for the patients as it guards the entrance of the immune system and blocks the HIV, which in turn delays the process of developing into AIDS.Although the drug is ...

It is three decades since the discovery of the HIV virus but we are still lacking information about HIV / AIDS. According to UN AIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. Although there is no foolproof cure or vaccine for HIV virus, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) will ensure that medicines are available at an affordable ...

AIDS. The very sound of the word scares some, and makes other cringe. How did we let it get so far? There is no cure for very few diseases, and aids is one of them. Yet we still have unprotected sex, and we still share dirty needles. Come on! Granted, HIV/AIDS will never be a thing of the past, but we can do better in making the condition less common.HIV/AIDS kills. In 2004, it was responsible ...

Continued democratic reforms, human rights and economic opportunities will take center stage when President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visit Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana and Liberia on an official tour of Africa. The president last visited the continent in 2003, and will return to review U.S.-assisted economic development projects and programs to control and prevention of malaria and HIV/...

The two-day media workshop, organized by the School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA) in association with Guwahati Press Club for mid career journalists of Assam has come to a successful end today evening. The workshop was aimed at strengthening media professionalism and the NGO-media interface in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for HIV/AIDS coverage. It witnessed the ...