To check the spread of AIDS, the Haryana AIDS Control Society will establish two blood component separation units at Hisar and Faridabad during the current financial year. A spokesman of the society said the blood bank at PGIMS, Rohtak, would be upgraded as a model blood bank, besides establishing two blood banks at Jhajjar and [...]
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2608 AIDS cases (1465 male and 1143 female) have been reported in Nagaland between 1994 to October 2008, according to an available source. The most effected age-group is the 25-34 years old, at 47.01 per cent and transmission through the sexual route standing at 91.1 per cent.
Much has been accomplished with active political leadership and [...]
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Karnataka is so highly prone to AIDS that the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) now thinks a one-year post-graduate fellowship programme on HIV/AIDS is desperately needed. The course is for doctors in both private and government hospitals. The programme, approved by the university syndicate and acadenic council, will most likely begin next year. The [...]
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A bid to set up a community care centre for HIV-positive people here has been temporarily shelved following objections from nearby residents who wrongly believe that the virus might spread to them also. The West Bengal State AIDS Prevention and Control Society planned to set up the 10-bed community care centre for the HIV-affected at Amherst [...]
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