Activist Groups' Plea to Indian Prime Minister: 'Rollout Second-Line AIDS Treatment!'

...edical Parliamentarians Forum (IMPF), World Vision, Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC), Amnesty International, Positive Lives Foundation - Goa (PLF), manipur Network of Positive People, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), Naz Foundation International - India, as well as other groups have joined togethe...

Imphal Hosts Cycle Rally to Spread Drug Abuse Awareness

...ral important places. Organised by the All manipur Anti-Drug Association (AMADA), the rally was flagg... Meitei, the AMADA Organizing Secretary, said: "In manipur there is a huge problem of drugs. All manipur Anti-Drug Association wants to ban all these (drug...

Australia Contributes Additional Funds for HIV Prevention in North-East

...dditional funding for HIV/AIDS and drugs prevention in Nagaland, Meghalaya, manipur and Mizoram. The project, "Prevention of Drugs and HIV/AIDS in In...tiatives include the SHALOM project (a three-year long project initiated in manipur between 1994-97 for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS); the India-Aust...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

... Separatists in manipur are literally holding the state to ransom with bus...ded Rs.10 million ($247,000) as 'tax' from the All manipur Medical Representative Association and the All manipur Pharmaceutical and Druggists Association. ...

Kolkata's Birla Hospital to Foray into Bangladesh

...ech facilities like cardiology, radiology, pharmacy, tele-medicine and OPD," said Chatterjee. Other diagnostic centers would come up in Orissa, Assam, manipur and West Bengal. "We are also setting up chain of hospitals in West Bengal - at Haldia, Siliguri, Rajarhat and a new one in Kolkata," Chatterje...

Linkage Between HIV and TB

...S Control Organization will be launching a month-long campaign in six high-prevalent states, namely Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, manipur and Nagaland //focussing on the linkage between HIV and TB. The campaign will be conducted through the mass media including electronic and print. It i...

High Incidence of AIDS in Six States

...prevalence among antenatal mothers has been observed to be more than one percent. These States are Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, manipur and Nagaland. National AIDS Control Programme has adopted a Rights based approach and thus no children of affected families will be denied the r...

As these women box on, do they risk becoming mothers?

..., by which time she will be 26. Even if the women's boxing is included in the 2012 Olympics in London, there is no guarantee that the woman from manipur will remain injury-free and in the same physical condition as she is now, plus selection will also play a major part. Doctors say the constant b...

Hundreds dying in northeast from AIDS

...ery expensive," said Dipak Singh, president of the manipur Network of Positive People (MNPP). Two MNPP ...e people not having access to treatment. "In manipur we provide free ART through our roll out centres t...s nearly 23,000," said Promod Kumar Singh, head of manipur government's AIDS Control Society. Manipur l...

Equal Opportunities For HIV-Positive Women Urged

...nd 6,224 non-HIV households spread over the rural and urban areas of six high prevalence states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, manipur and Nagaland. Of the 2,386 positive cases nearly 44 percent were women. The present study reiterates the general perception that women are dispro...