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Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS

...k groups at 0.06 percent. However, the influx of migrant labourers, truck drivers, security personnel as we...on of the Targeted Intervention (TI) programme for migrant labourers in a systematic manner, which for example is the second highest risk group in Jammu and Ka...

Remove Stigma to Defeat HIV/AIDS in India, says UN Envoy

...w the age of 25." According to the UN envoy, Asian migrant workers are highly vulnerable to HIV with most of ...Nearly 10 percent of the people in Philippines are migrant workers of whom nearly 60 percent are women working as domestic help and doing odd jobs in the Gulf ...

Migrant Bihar Labourers Bring Dengue Home

...Most of the suspected dengue cases reported are of migrant labourers who arrived from dengue-hit places like Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Diwali and Chath festivals. In some cases, businessmen, doctors, officials and students of the state returning home after visiting Delhi ...

Dengue Outbreak Feared in Nepal

... city. One of the three, Kaluram Chaudhuri, is a migrant Nepali worker from Bardiya district in far western Nepal who had returned home from Rajasthan in India about a week ago. The 25-year-old had come to the hospital for treatment after a bout of fever. Of the three others who went to the Kohalpur Teac...

Delhi children to receive anti-polio drops Sunday

... measures to eradicate the disease. She said the migrant population that arrives in Delhi every day to look for jobs could also be responsible for polio cases in the national capital. "In view of low nutrition level of children in our country, repetition of the anti-polio dose for more than five times be...

India warned of Impending AIDS Disaster

...ly confined within a sexual triangle of poor, male migrant workers, the prostitutes they visit, and their wives back home. It is mainly for this reason that the Gates Foundation spends much of its efforts telling the first two groups to use condoms. Broun said that it was essential that India aims to get 80...

Number of TB Cases Continuing Challenge for Thai Government

...ration because of economic growth and an influx of migrant workers are factors fueling the spread of TB, according to the Nation. Daranee Viryakijja, a TB expert, said 15% of new TB cases occurred among HIV-positive people. Somchai also said many people with TB do not complete treatment because they move ...

Tuberculosis : Growing Number of TB Cases Continuing Challenge for Thai Government

...ration because of economic growth and an influx of migrant workers are factors fueling the spread of TB, according to the Nation. Daranee Viryakijja, a TB expert, said 15% of new TB cases occurred among HIV-positive people. Somchai also said many people with TB do not complete treatment because they move to ...

China Takes a Progressive Step Towards AIDS Prevention

...te enterprises that employ a large number of rural migrant workers to join our program and urge them to fully implement HIV guidelines. Our goal is that all workers with HIV/AIDS are well protected. They can get jobs, keep jobs and have access to AIDS prevention services, such as education, treatment and vol...

China Gearing Up for Bird Flu Season

Higher temperatures than normal mean migrant birds will be outstaying their welcome in north and central China//. The country’s vice agriculture minister Yin Chengjie has called for tougher measures on bird flu prevention, especially in the wake of the new lunar year. At this time, there ...

Russia Launches Five-Year Plan To Combat Diseases, Including TB, HIV/AIDS

...ster Mikhail Zurabov on Thursday said one-tenth of migrant workers in Russia are living with TB, HIV/AIDS or hepatitis because of inadequate health checks. Russian and international medical experts have said that the government has not taken action to address the country's health crisis and that it has denie...

HIV Awareness Increases as Condoms are Distributed in Gujarat Theatres Screening Porn Films

... vulnerable groups. The city has a large number of migrant laborers who come to the city to work in its diamo...r's association and when we realised that a lot of migrant labourers were coming to these cinemas to watch porn films, we got in touch with these cinemas." A...

Coca Cola To Distribute HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Prevention Playing Cards Among Chinese Migrant Workers

...S, tuberculosis and malaria prevention to Chinese migrant workers in July, Xinhua/People's Daily reports. The cards will be distributed among migrant workers employed at construction sites and railway stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hang...

Students Protest Against Introduction of Sex Education in Schools

...ough sexual intercourse, one key reason being that migrant workers in cities visit prostitutes and infect their wives when they return home. According to analysts, an estimated 5.7 million Indians have been infected by HIV/AIDS a figure experts say may increase to over 20 million by 2010 and sex education ...

A School Teachers Crusade to Promote Sex Education

...ue to sexual intercourse, one key reason being the migrant workers visiting prostitutes at various places, and then infecting their wives at home. Proponents of the ban on sex-education have objected to sex-education being imparted to students. Many parents feel sex-education should not become pornogra...

Ontario Court Awards Compensation To Paralyzed Worker

A polish migrant in Canada has termed as thrilling and relieving, after four tough years a court victory that entitles him to a compensation of 130, 000 US dollars. Ryszard Kolbuc won a lawsuit challenging his insurer Ace Ina Insurer ,when they refused to pay ...

Female Reproductive Function Influenced by Childhood Environment

...evant not only to Bangladeshi groups, but to other migrant groups and populations in transition worldwide. Th...ncrease in progesterone levels that we document in migrant women may result, for example, in higher breast cancer risks in subsequent generations of this commu...

Ostracized HIV Victim of Bihar Commits Suicide

...lk properly," said a villager. Like millions of migrant workers who leave home in search of better prospects, he too had gone to Kolkata two years ago to earn a livelihood. While he contracted the virus in Kolkata, his wife got it from him, health officials said. According to official figures, 1,100 pe...

Huge Rise in AIDS Cases Among Nepal Housewives

...f Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among migrant labourers, intravenous drug users and sex workers...nly India and the Middle East. "You have all these migrant men leaving home in search of work and remaining away for periods of one to three years. "They have ...

Bird Flu Antibodies Found in Migrant Birds in Siberia

Scientists have discovered bird flu antibodies in migrant birds in five Siberian regions, a spokesman for a veterinary regulator said here Tuesday . "Out of over 4,000 samples taken in the area this year, samples from 50 wild birds were found to contain genetic material of the A-H5 virus and antibodies in...

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