Conditions Of The HIV/AIDS Patients In The Mizo Society

The article is a plea on behalf of the HIV positive people of Mizo society to treat them as normal people during their lifetime and after death. Malsawmdawnga who is the president of Mizoram People Living With AIDS// Society (MPLAS) gave a press talk stating that even as the world is changing for t...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...ell our kids not to smoke". In the tribal mizo society, consumption of tobacco is rampant among c...R.Ralte, Officer on Special Duty (Health)said: "In mizo society, there is not much taboo associated with t...nces used in tobacco, the impact is being seen the mizo society". Ralte said more awareness campai...

Bamboo Seed: Viagra and Food for Mizos

.... Now nutrient-rich bamboo seeds are going straight from the jungle to the mizo menu and even the bedroom! In Mizoram, bamboo seeds that appear aft...the 3rd Battalion of Mizoram Police, and his friends prepared a traditional mizo stew called Bai from bamboo seeds, many appreciated it. 'It tastes...

Smoking Out Rats from Fields to Mizoram’s Dining Table

...he persuades her grandchildren to serve it up for her guests. But the mizo government is getting worried. With rodents appearing in paddy fields... rodents across the state. After rats, frogs are the other staples in mizo menu. Tadpoles, baby frogs, which are humorously dubbed as 'GI Joes', and t...

Mizoram Women Under the Grip of Tobacco

...ures of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) shows more than 22 percent mizo women smoked against a national average of only 2.5 percent, said Jane R. R...o products, a unique tobacco smoke-infused water is consumed extensively by mizo women. The product, called 'Tuibur', is made locally by passing smoke...

Strange Burial Practice Followed for People Affected by HIV/AIDS

...am AIDS Control Society. But many people living with the virus and anti-AIDS campaigners in the region says such practices were still on in the mizo tribal society. "Such is the reaction that that when a person dies of HIV/AIDS, we invariably find attendance of the locals in the cemeteries ve...

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