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The Brain behind Facial Recognition

...ey data, leading to the prediction that human face discrimination is based on a sparse population code of sharply tu...nterexample to theories that posit that human face discrimination necessarily relies on face-specific processes." In a preview of the paper in the same issue of Neu...

AIDS testing gets support from Bill Clinton

...According to Clinton, countries where there was no discrimination against people with the illness and where anti-AIDS drugs were available should now consider universal testing. As told to journalists he said, "I think there needs to be a total rethinking of this testing position in the AIDS community and a real...

Satyam Stops Conducting HIV Tests On Employees To Prevent Discrimination

In order to prevent discrimination against the people suffering from AIDS, Satyam Com...ucting the HIV/AIDS test to protect employees from discrimination at workplace, A.S. Murthy, Satyam's director and senior vice-president (human resources), told IANS....

Korea: No Discrimination against Those with AIDS/HIV in the Workplace

...soon enforce legal regulations against any sort of discrimination against people with AIDS and HIV. // The Health an...n, leave of absence and the like. Penalties for discrimination will include a year’s imprisonment or a fine equivalent to US$3,000. This is certainly some reprieve...

Equal Rights for HIV Infected Workers

...ficiency will get better respect and absolutely no discrimination at workplaces. // Employers will have to face lega... and AIDS patients with a motive to remove all the discrimination against them. Regulations such as sick leave will be adhered to in a similar manner to HIV/AIDS pat...

Misconceptions Put AIDS Patients In Tight-Spot

...re thousands of women who have been suffering from discrimination and all due to ignorance." Her life can be an inspiration to India's 5.1 million HIV/AIDS patients, 40 percent of whom are women. "After realising my health problem, I became more conscious of my illness and took care of my health," said Celina w...

Betterment Of Health In Case Of Gay And Lesbian Civil Partnerships

... and other issues. The civil unions show reduced discrimination against gay and lesbian couples thereby making their relationships more stable. Their families recognize such relationships and a social framework of recognition are created. In such cases there is less exchange of partners, less sexual risk, less ...

Gay men cannot donate sperm

...ot happy with the decision and does not accept the discrimination against him and does not accept the fact that Gay ...seases. Even critics feel that this act will cause discrimination against Gay man and feel that HIV diagnostic methods are highly developed and proper testing would e...

Understanding “The Brain

...al parts. It takes a longer time to recognize fine discrimination such as individual faces. This delay is due to the fact that time is required by the brain to assemble each and every signal and give shape to the object. Further research has to be done on the understanding the other complex mechanisms of the brai...

Record Number of Countries Contributed to UNFPA in 2005

...universal access to reproductive health and ending discrimination against women-as they resolved to do during the World Summit.' At the World Summit in September 2005, leaders agreed to integrate access to reproductive health into national strategies designed to end poverty, reduce maternal death, promote gender ...

Many Indian Doctors Live In Poverty

...igrating to the UK. Most of them are faced with discrimination and unemployment rather than hospitals welcoming them, which is what they expected. All of them had gone through the professional and linguistic assessment board (Plab) test in the UK. Their own nations stand deprived of their skills and face a short...

AIDS bias successfully overcome by Indian Muslims in South Africa

...s in South Africa who displayed stigmatization and discrimination against AIDS victims, are now becoming open minded about supporting HIV/AIDS patients despite their traditional religious beliefs. // This was clear when a number of Muslim organisations joined the local branch of the Muslim AIDS Programme (MAP), a...

India preferred for AIDS treatment

... are preferring treatment in India to avoid social discrimination and to avoid others in their place to know that they are suffering from HIV infection.// Reports have found that about 100 patients every year come to India from Sri Lanka to get treatment for AIDS. Most of the people who come to India for their ...

Smokers May Be Denied Heart Surgery

...ctive upon the patient. There will however be no discrimination if the disease had been brought about by the patient himself. The age of the patient will also be taken into account by the doctors. The guidance of NICE will be quoted by three trusts in East Suffolk which refused to give hip or knee transplants to ...

UNAIDS Chief Appeals for Projects to Battle AIDS/HIV

...indrance in controlling the epidemic. 'Stigma and discrimination all over the world has been a major obstacle in HIV prevention and treatment and we need to tackle it upfront,' Piot said. 'Instead of billboards warning against AIDS, a warm embrace by the chief minister or an elected representative to a person li...

Concerted Effort Imperative For Elimination Of Tropical Diseases: WHO

...y rates, and those affected are victims of stigma, discrimination and human rights abuses. The combined disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost to these diseases is over 11 million per year, WHO stated. WHO records show that over 70 % of the global leprosy cases, 50 % of the persons globally affected by clin...

AIDS awareness education for school children’

...bout transmission of HIV and to prevent any social discrimination of children’s affected by AIDS. The Ministry said, "We have included HIV/AIDS education in the new curriculum framework for teacher training and has asked the NCERT to look into how the new system could be incorporated in the study curriculum." ...

A Joint Venture by Golfers And Military Forces To Combat AIDS

...ave a capacity to demolish the walls of stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV simply by shaking their hands, involving them in sports events, and raising mass awareness. -(IANS)...

Religious Leaders condemn determination of sex in hospitals

...Sri Ravi Shankar to raise an uniform voice against discrimination based on gender and concern was shared regarding a sharp decline in girl child//. All the religious leaders were present in the meeting and they were not happy with the use of recent hospital equipments for scanning and determination of sex which h...

More collaborations and strengthening of India’s AIDS control body require

...fis added that, "We have to remove the stigma, the discrimination and the denial to accept that people infected with HIV/AIDS can lead normal and long life with treatment and care”. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

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