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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Shares World Bank, Global Fund Concerns Over Alleged Corruption at India's NACO

Call on the Prime Minister to Restore the People's Faith in the Government AIDS System NEW DELHI, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and AHF/India Cares today announced its strong support for a Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis ...

Court Issues Order NACO On Gay Issue

New Delhi. The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and the Delhi government on a public interest litigation seeking legal// sanction to homosexuality. The litigation sought sanction through a repeal of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IP...

Our figures in consonance with UNAIDS estimates : NACO

Seeking to put at rest the "controversy" over the number of HIV/AIDS patients in the country, the National AIDS Control Organisation today said its figures of 5.2 million// patients was in consonance with the UNAIDS estimates for the 15-49 age group. "NACO figures on HIV/AIDS patients are for ...

The Female Health Company / HLL Lifecare Limited Receive National AIDS Control Organization of India Order for 1.5 Million FC2 Female Condoms

...yyappan, Chairman and Managing Director, HLL Lifecare Limited stated, "This naco led FC Social Marketing initiative will enable millions of vulnerable women...ted infections. We are extremely happy to supply the Female Condoms for the naco supported program from our commercial manufacturing facility set up at Koch...

NACO Bows to Activists' Pressure on AIDS Treatment in India, Says AHF

... naco to Finally Announce Second-Line AIDS Treatment Pro...Prime Minister, urging him to intercede and direct naco to rollout second-line treatment in India. The app...Thursday November 15, 2007. "We are pleased that naco will finally begin providing second-line treatment...

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

... naco Centers Report 100,000 Patients on First-line ART;...that it has reached a crucial treatment benchmark: naco is providing first-line ART to slightly more than ...NACO-supported ART centers throughout the country. naco officials previously announced that 100,000 patien...

'AHF/India Cares' Provides Second-line AIDS Drugs to Activists in India

... Unavailable at naco ART Centers, Group Provides Patients Free Second-l...those patients needing second-line AIDS treatment, naco does not provide such potentially lifesaving AIDS ...d their first-line antiretroviral treatment at the naco ART centers. "I am pleased that AHF/India Cares ...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...all set to expose the scam after having obtained permission from the bank to go public with the findings about "the bogus HIV testing kits supplied by naco and used by hospitals across India," Saha said. Saha and other members of the World Bank team discovered that that there was "fraud" in distri...

Toll Free National Drug Helpline Launched

...rting over 350 de-addiction centres and over 40 counseling centres all over the country. Capacity of 200 centres have been augmented with support from naco to effectively deal with drug-driven HIV and AIDS. However, a complex societal problem that drug abuse has become today, it requires a larger partners...

Indian Doctors Refuse to Help HIV-positive Woman Deliver: Report

...sed shock at the report and said it would be investigated. "In this particular case we have recommended stringent action against the doctors," naco chief Sujatha Rao told the channel. "Even if they were to touch contaminated blood, they are not in danger." The report was the latest...