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Most HIV/AIDS Patients do not Disclose Status: Report

...country do not disclose their status at workplaces fearing discrimination, a United Nations study has said. // "Seventy-four per cent of the employees have not disclosed their HIV-positive status at their workplace. Of the remaining 26 per cent who have disclosed their status, 10.3 per cent have reported f...

Seroxat Heart Abnormalities Risk Doubted

...ht have unnecessarily terminated their pregnancies fearing that the drug could affect their babies. Researchers at the University of Ulm studied 119 women treated with Seroxat for six years between 1999 and 2005. They then compared the pregnancies of these women with 645 women who did not use the drug. O...

Bird Flu Threat:Stringent Poultry Import Measures In Zanzibar

...nt too had reinforced its ban on poultry imports, fearing the risks involved. The deadly H5N1 strain has been reported in several African countries. The poultry industry in Asia and several european countries has been severely hit by the disease, which claimed dozens of human lives....

Myanmar To Lift Ban On Poultry As Bird Flu Under Control

...surveillance along its porous border with Myanmar, fearing the disease could come across in smuggled poultry despite a ban on imports. Officials in the Thai capital Bangkok said that the city would be hosting a regional bird flu meeting next month where assisting Myanmar will be a top priority. Thailand has ...

Misconceptions Put AIDS Patients In Tight-Spot

...towards her, she did not go to her parents either, fearing "they too will throw me out of home". Celina now lives alone in a rented home and is employed with a Delhi-based self-help group that works for the betterment of HIV positive people. A humanities graduate, she manages to earn enough to sustain herse...

HIV Positive Girls Face Boycott

... The villagers barred them from attending school fearing that they might spread the disease. The children have been ostracized by other villagers as well. AIDS has killed 459 people in Orissa between January 2002 and September 2005. Edited (IANS)...

Food labels to include information on trans fats in US

... made companies to remove it from their own foods, fearing that consumers may not eat trans fatty products once they know their content. Frito-Lay and Kraft, among food companies, have dramatically reduced the number of products they sell that contain trans fats. Food activists are calling for labeling in ...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

...y all three are huddling in a corner of the house, fearing his fury. Scenario 2: Madhya Pradesh, India: Rani, a domestic worker who supports her two children and an alcoholic husband, is knocking on the door of her mistress at 2 am, with a bleeding head and a broken arm. Her husband, who saw her talk to a ...

Chinese City Suspends Water Supply Fearing Pollution

...water supply to its 3.8 million-strong population, fearing possibility of contamination by chemical spillage.// The city government in Harbin, northeastern China, Tuesday "made a U-turn by admitting that fears of water contamination in Songhua river... were behind the city's four-day water supply cut", the ...

HIV-positive Parents Require More Counseling

...heir children. About a third of the group reported fearing at least a little that they might transmit the disease to their child, and nearly 20 percent feared transmission a lot. About 42 percent had at least a little fear of getting an infection from their child through intimate contact like kissing and hug...

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