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Filipinos Hospitalized After Inhaling Toxic Fumes

... Witnesses positively identified the white tanker truck driven by the suspects as the one they saw dumping its contents in the stream before dawn. Aquilates added that police were still determining the liability of the truck's owner. Source-IANS...

Free HIV Treatment to Be Launched for Children

...ing machines installed at strategic locations like truck hubs and red light area. "So far we have installed 13,000 condom-vending machines and plan to add 12,000 more by 2006-07 fiscal end (March 31). By 2007 end we hope to have in place 100,000 vending machines," the minister stated. In addition to t...

Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

...her. This happened in China when a single infected truck driver crossed the border.” Source-Newwise SRM...

Government Initiates A Program To Curb HIV

...at risk comparing to the high-risk categories like truck drivers, MSMs and commercial sex workers and of the total estimated number of HIV positives, which was around 5 million, around 57 per cent belonged to the rural areas and 40% of them were women. The Health Ministry along with the Home Ministry is ...

Anti-HIV drive intensified in Haryana

...ve free counseling. The vulnerable group including truck drivers and sex workers will be encouraged by these counselors to undergo the HIV detection test at a subsidised charge of Rs 10. A spokesperson for the HACS said: 'Pregnant women who could be affected by HIV/AIDS are specially being encouraged ...

Asthma Symptoms Linked to Soot from Diesel Trucks in So. Bronx

... numbers attend schools in close proximity to busy truck routes because of past land-use decisions. The S...ed school children in close proximity to highways, truck routes, industrial land-use areas and other environmental hazards. Modeled concentrations of traffic...

Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS

...rcent. However, the influx of migrant labourers, truck drivers, security personnel as well as tourists co...ger a low prevalence disease. Paramilitary forces, truck drivers and housewives were the major affected groups. Most deaths have occurred among the rural p...

Updated Sleep Apnea Screening Recommended for Commercial Drivers

...ions estimated that nearly one in three commercial truck drivers suffers from mild to severe OSA1. The study found that the risk of having sleep apnea depended on two major factors - age and degree of obesity - with prevalence increasing with both. Population projections by FMCSA indicate the number of old...

HIV Carriers Form an Association to Fight Social Stigma in Jharkhand

...n Jharkhand, two patients - a pregnant woman and a truck driver - were denied treatment when the hospital learnt they were HIV carriers. As per official estimates, there are about a thousand HIV carriers in Jharkhand. About 30 deaths have been reported in the state. Source-IANS...

People Exposed To Lead Likely To Die From Brain Cancer

...ut firefighters, engineers, automobile assemblers, truck drivers, plumbers, welders, and printers or typesetters were all among those individuals with some likelihood of lead exposure, according to the NCI matrix. When Van Wijngaarden applied the matrix to nearly 318,000 people and followed their cancer ...

Anti-AIDS Plan for 1,000 Tamil Nadu Colleges

...ica)." It was not only commercial sex workers or truck drivers who were the high-risk groups, but India's youth as "India has the biggest chunk of young population today (540 million bellow 25 years)", Ramadoss said. "Experts have warned that India may not be able to maintain its eight percent growth i...

India Launches A Massive Campaign Against HIV/AIDS In Rural Areas

...ontrol Organisation, said that migrant workers and truck drivers have been identified as the core group, which take the infection to rural areas. She explained that the programme would train local leaders to help women with Aids, who generally suffer from a great deal of discrimination and isolation. Ms Ra...

AIDS Control Programme to Focus on District Level

...health and family affairs. Migrant labourers and truck drivers who constitute the bulk of the 'bridging population' will be made part of the new programme that will remain effective till 2012. "We have been so far able to sensitise 30 percent users of the national highways and the programme aims to rea...

Gene Therapy Technique for Inherited Heart Problems in The Pipeline

...Chapel Hill, said each viral type is ‘like a FedEx truck that carries a ZIP code that determines where the truck is going to take its payload to.’ ‘Laboratories are engineering new ZIP codes onto these vectors so ...

HIV/AIDS on Rise in Jammu and Kashmir

...e changing. Concentrations of migrant labourers, truck drivers, security personnel and the influx of tourists invariably pose a serious threat. Unofficial sources and independent studies claim the state has nearly 25,000 cases of HIV infection. Unorganised commercial sex, the difficult terrain and soci...

The new urban exercise hazard: pollution!

...ts: 1. Avoidance of running near roads with heavy truck or bus traffic. 2. Best time for workout if early morning or late evening 3. Indoor exercise is better than in the open if these pints are kept in mind the dangers can be avoided....

Meth Addiction On The Rise, US Health Authorities Concerned

...s now being used by college students, athletes and truck drivers. Sadly, the drug is no longer used for its therapeutic benefit. Soldiers who had participated in the World War II are said to have used the drug to improve their alertness. The release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter into specific brain are...

AIDS Claims Two Lives Of Same Family In MP

...ng from the same disease. Both the siblings were truck drivers. The state falls in the low prevalence category for HIV/AIDS, but it could be on the verge of entering the moderate category, fear NGOs involved in spreading AIDS awareness. While states with less than one percent of the population inflic...

Pakistan experiences an increase in Aids cases : WHO

...on, big high risk population such as long distance truck drivers, commercial sex workers, limited safety of blood transfusion. According to WHO/UNAids definition, Pakistan was classified as a low prevalence but high-risk country for the spread of HIV infection. This classification no longer holds good be...

Protective Protein Could Hold The Key In Fight Against Tuberculosis

...ve TB infection can infect hundred others. Highway truck drivers in India are particularly at increased risk of contracting HIV and TB due to irresponsible sexual behavior. This is one of the main reasons for collaboration between the University of Florida and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education a...

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