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Raghavan,
T
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?art_ID=20691306
AIDS epidemic possible in Trichy villages: Health dept
T
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[
FRIDAY,
TIRUCHIRAPALLI: HIV has sneaked into Tiruchirapalli (Trichy) district.
In fact, the belt covering 56 km across Musiri, T.
Pet, Namakkal, Thottiyam
and Namakkal towns could be
No coincidence that the area has the
country's highest concentration of truck drivers and cleaners. In Tiruchirapalli, the infection among truck drivers increased
from 2.7 per cent to 5 per cent in just two years, according to National AIDS
Control Organisation (NACO).
According to Assistant Director, Health
Information, A.C. Rajavel, "Each village has
three or four full-blown HIV cases, and Elisa tests confirm this. There could
be 20 `carriers' in each village."
"Every April, we conduct STD (Sexually
Transmitted Diseases) camps, where male attendance is almost zero. They don't
turn up for fear of detection,'' he said.
Rajavel confirms that 7
per cent of the female population in every village has sexually transmitted
diseases or reproductive tract infection. The NACO has maintained that STD with
genital ulcers increase chances of HIV.
"There is also a drop in birth and
infant mortality rates and rise in medically terminated pregnancies. Generally,
villagers don't go for MTP, but last year's 417 abortions are a pointer to high
HIV prevalence,'' he said.
While no hospital conducts the Elisa test,
there is also short supply of condoms. Along the 14-km road between Musiri and Vellalappatti, not a
single shop sells condoms.
Musiri:
Rickshaw-puller Periayaswamy is famous here. Two
years ago, the healthy youth succumbed to AIDS. Even his wife didn't touch his
body, and finally, the Lions Club of Musiri buried
him.
The situation is "very very dangerous", says Thulasidasan,
district chairman for Youth Talent Promotion, Lions Club of Musiri.
"There were two more such deaths -- a young man and his wife. HIV is now
at every doorstep."
Says Thulasidasan:
"A survey of brothels was carried out with Kajamalai
Women's Association. We found that at least 20 visitors were HIV-positive. Sex
workers said they couldn't insist on condoms, or would lose customers."
Dr Jayalakshmi, Musiri Government Hospital, says: "Most cases we deal
with are full-blown, involving men, women and children. We don't have a special
ward, and administer only symptomatic treatment.''
A brisk tramp to Vellalappatti
brought one reality to light -- though AIDS has reached this tiny town, condoms
are yet to arrive.
Villagers in the straggling hamlets said
they go to Musiri for major purchases. A man buying
condoms in Vellalappatti would soon be making news,
so he goes to the anonymity of Musiri. Which is also why no outlet bothers to sell the item here.
NACO says 20,304 cases of AIDS were
reported in the country till March 2001. Of these, Tamil Nadu
reported the highest with 9,714 cases,
It is a hazardous canker in Tiruchirapalli district whose drivers and cleaners frequent
urban areas and bring home a disease until now a curse
of city life.
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Reference
Sudhir, Uma. (
http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?fromtimeline=true&id=9969&callid=0&template=Aids
AIDS
poses grave threat in Andhra Pradesh
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Uma Sudhir
The
coastal belt of Andhra Pradesh is
turning out to be a minefield for
HIV/AIDS infection. In
These
are the official statistics at the city's government hospital for July-August this year. The survey was conducted as part of a project for
control of HIV infection by the National AIDS Control Organisation.
"
With
HIV testing not mandatory in the
country, it is difficult to estimate accurately the prevalence of
the disease. So from 1998 onwards,
every year between August and October, NACO conducts an anonymous survey at
antenatal centres to get an estimate of how
widespread the disease is. Blood samples from pregnant women who come for
check-up are tested for HIV to get an assessment of the prevalence in the
general population.
In
almost all cases, the wife gets the deadly virus from her husband.
"There
is an increase in prevalence among
the younger generation, where the married life is one year, eight months, nine
months. We have even couples married for just six months testing
positive. The age group is between 18 and 24," said Dr Savitha,
Mother-to-child HIV Transmission Project.
With
the increasing number of housewives
testing HIV positive, the myth that
the disease is largely prevalent among the high-risk groups like commercial sex
workers, truck-drivers and homosexuals no longer holds true. Expecting
mothers are considered the best index for AIDS checks on low risk populations.
But
it is not an isolated instance.
Andhra
Pradesh with over two per cent of its population infected with HIV is at double
the national average of one per cent HIV prevalence. Guntur,
a coastal district, is estimated to have over 5 per cent of its population
infected with the deadly virus -- the highest in the country. In high risk
categories like sex workers, 27 per cent are estimated to have the HIV virus.
These
figures have now got the Andhra Pradesh government worried. "What is
causing the maximum concern is that the
rate of growth in Andhra Pradesh is the highest, even more than in
For
Andhra Pradesh, the danger of AIDS is now very real and experts warn that unless it is tackled like an emergency, it could be too
late.
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Personal
Review
… increasing number of housewives testing HIV positive…
Why?
Man’s
cocky sexual behavior?
Refer
the article: Hax, Carolyn. (
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Reference
Yadav, Priya. (
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?art_id=2000814350
Entire
families in HIV trap
PRIYA
YADAV
TIMES
NEWS NETWORK [
SATURDAY,
An
isolation room in PGI’s Advanced Paediatric
Centre is almost constantly occupied by an HIVpositive child. The story of twoyear-old
Ashish is no different from that of many other
children who occupied the room before him. With both young parents
suspected HIV-positive, one child already dead, the other suffering from AIDS
and another one on its way, the fatal virus is a death knell for the entire
family.
Ashish
has been admitted to APC for the past almost a month with severe brain damage. For his father, 30-year-old Sushil
Sharma (name changed) and mother26-year-old Geeta
(name changed) the news of the family being HIV-positive is a bolt from the blue. The family learnt of their medical status three weeks ago, when they
admitted their son to PGI. ‘‘Twice in the past has he been given his parents’ blood. Both times,
the blood sample had passed ELISA test.
But only when we reached PGI were we told that the blood is HIV positive.
Subsequently, our blood has also been screened and is suspected positive,’’
said Ashish’s father, a science teacher in Shimla.
His
wife, a staff nurse at a government
hospital in Shimla, has been in a stupor ever since the tragic news was
broken to her. ‘‘Sleep and food are
the last things on our mind. When our
first child died of bronchitis, we never thought he could be HIV-positive. The
baby, who has not yet entered the world, is also doomed,’’ he says breaking down.
‘‘Nobody
thinks even for a single moment that they could be HIV positive,’’ laments a
doctor. The number of people proving
HIV positive is on the rise. In 1998,
6,003 people were screened and 279 were found HIV positive. In 1999, although
only 4,537 were screened, 326 were found positive, while in 2000, 4,620 were
screened and 346 found positive. In 2001, 4,153 people had been screened till
October 31 and 364 yielded positive results.
The
tragedy striking families is only becoming grimmer as the maximum number of people falling prey to the disease, primarily through
sexual transmission, are in the most productive years of their lives, that is, 30
to 44 years of age.
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AIDS awareness-- ha ha ha. (
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?art_id=1977128966
AIDS
awareness-- ha ha ha
TIMES
NEWS NETWORK [
SUNDAY,
Addressing
a motley mix of professionals medicos, nurses, students and officials on the
occasion of World AIDS Day, the minister began with a dig on the wild west
which was struggling to find a cure
for AIDS while Charak Rishi had already hit upon the antidote. Only the sage gave it
a different name— ojya kshaya, a disease which led to depletion in bodily energy. The
difference then was that the disease only
struck the maharajas as against the common man now. “With the
passage of time, AIDS has crossed the class barrier and now we can see the farm hands, construction workers or
even truck drivers suffering from it,”
he declared.
Charak’s
antidote was a concoction made from four magic Indian herb— Tulsi, Neem, Shilajeet and Makardhwaj,
Shastri continued. The first two led to decrease in libido while Shilajeet and Makardhwaj reacted in
exactly opposite manner. “Now it is
for our researchers to probe how the sage struck the balance and
what quantities in which forms were used. The
efforts will definitely yield positive results,” he said adding, “UP thereby has an opportunity in
creating history by grabbing the opportunity.”
Vocabulary.
libido n. pl. libidos
1. The psychic and emotional energy associated with
instinctual biological drives.
libido
n :
(psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual
urge or desire
And
while the researchers toil in the labs to rediscover the magic potion, the youth will do well to follow Brahmacharya to keep the affliction away, advised Shastri before
sharing with audience a naughty joke on a politician’s visit to a
By
following faithfully the Indian value system,
In
his address, Bachittar Singh, project director
UPSACS, said that UP had a total number of 483 AIDS cases which was a matter of
great concern. The areas of major concern still remained certain pockets in
eastern UP with its migrant labour segment and also
the towns along the national highways, he said. However, UPSACS with the help
of NGOs had been able to create HIV awareness which along with the supply of safe blood will help the situation, he added.
The
government, he further pointed out, had resolved to set up 24 HIV testing
centre in the state and the facility will soon be available in remote parts of
the state also. On the occasion at the NBRI lawns 89 men and two women gave
their blood samples for HIV tests. On the stalls as many as 10 STD patients
were also treated.
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AIDS continues 'devastating'
sweep. (
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/01/aids.day/index.html
AIDS continues 'devastating'
sweep
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The virus that causes AIDS is continuing to spread worldwide
at a dramatic pace, with eastern
Europe particularly hard hit, the
United Nations has warned.
The U.N. report, released to
coincide with World AIDS Day on Saturday that aims to raise global awareness of the disease, revealed that 75,000 new infections of the virus that
causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome had been reported in
The U.N. also warned that AIDS was continuing to spread worldwide at a dramatic pace,
with 40 million children and adults infected by HIV, an increase of four
million from last year.
Dr Peter Piot,
executive director of the U.N. programme on HIV/AIDS,
UNAIDS, warned: "HIV is spreading rapidly throughout the entire Eastern
European region.
"It is unequivocally the
most devastating disease we have ever faced and it will get worse before it gets better."
In an interview published in
a Russian newspaper on Saturday, Piot said millions
in
"All will depend on which position the leadership of the
country takes," Piot told the newspaper Vremya.
European Union trade chief
Pascal Lamy said the EU was determined to do all in
its power to make sure that safe, affordable drugs were available to all who
need them in the struggle to combat HIV-AIDS and other killer diseases.
Ukraine's Health Minister, Vitaliy Moskalenko, said that
three government anti-AIDS programmes between 1992
and 2000 slowed the epidemic, while the current 2001-2003 program may even stop
it, according to the Interfax news agency.
The current programme in
Piot praised Ukraine's achievements but warned that the
situation may worsen among the youth, Interfax
reported.
The United Nations estimates
that the number of victims in
The Christian agency World
Vision called on Saturday for the church to take a more realistic attitude to
the use of condoms in an attempt to slow the global spread of the disease.
And in
There are more than two million HIV-positive people in
Across
Unknowing infection
In
Gays and prostitutes
"will not come forward to be tested, educated and to be treated, because
there are laws against them,"
Del Prado told The Associated Press.
The
In the
The study involved more than
30,000 people in the
In
Heterosexual spread
Meanwhile in
The HIVDynamics
Monitor study detailing more than 2,000 HIV patients in
In
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Reference
Bill
Gates spreading panic on AIDS in
Bill
Gates spreading panic on AIDS in
Health
Minister Shatrughan Sinha
on Saturday accused
Microsoft
founder Gates, the world's richest man, was due on Monday in
US
Ambassador Robert Blackwill, meanwhile, said in a
speech Wednesday in Chennai that
Asked
about the two men's comments, Health Minister Shatrughan
Sinha said: "I don't think anyone should
contribute to spreading panic among the general public."
"We
are aware of the situation and it does concern me personally," he said.
Reports
said the minister may show his anger at the vocal international concern over
But
the
"This
would cause a human tragedy of historic proportions," Blackwill said. "HIV/AIDS destroys lives and families, but it affects much more than health policy. It can have a major impact on a nation's economic and
national security. This cannot be
allowed to happen in
Health
Minister Sinha responded: "What do we achieve by
saying in public that we will have 25 million people with AIDS in the coming
years?"
"Every
year we update the information on the HIV/AIDS scene in the country. And we are
surprised by the figures being cited freely."
Anti-AIDS
activists say the disease is
spreading in
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Vocabulary
promiscuous
adj.
Having
casual sexual relations frequently with different partners; indiscriminate in
the choice of sexual partners.
prude
n.
One
who is excessively concerned with being or appearing to be proper, modest, or righteous.
Personal
Review
Family name.
Prestige before others. Especially
for the old generation. The new generation, more
western-style. Because of prestige, topics of vulgarity like steps to be
adopted for safe sex etc. are not even discussed for the welfare of the young
generation. In spite of “good name”, when children of the
family go “way-ward”, such action are suppressed, “hush-hush”. Family name to be protected.
Because
of western style of life for the young generation,
young
people are increasingly promiscuous
pre-marital
sex, extra-marital sex, multiple partners, immorality are common.
The old
generation holds on to their family name doing “nothing”. Talk and talk for
family values, ethics by the old generation, who in the young generation will
listen to? “Morality? That is for old people of
ancient generation” – the comments of a young woman doing oral sex for money in
an Indian city.
The
young generation goes ahead with western life-style.
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'Brush out AIDS' begins. (
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/comp/articleshow?art_id=5999981
'Brush
out AIDS' begins
PTI[
SATURDAY,
In an effort to spread awareness about the dreaded
disease, 23 artists and sculptors have come together for a three-day camp
called "Brush out AIDS."
Through
their paintings and sculptures, the young artists will try to depict the pain,
anguish and loneliness of the AIDS patients, shunned by society.
The
camp is jointly organised by the State AIDS Control
society and
Kerala
has 861 AIDS patients, and 20,000 HIV infected, he
said.
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Reference
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?art_id=1757543556
TIMES
NEWS NETWORK [
SATURDAY,
The
industrial area of Shapar-Veraval on the outskirts of
the city and areas around the LPG filling station near Moti
Khavdi near
AIDS
prevention club president Arun Dave, quoting a report
from Junagadh said during the last 22 months, as many as 72 cases were
reported from the town.
Dave
said that rapid industrialisation
of the region was contributing to rapid spread of AIDS. The
worst-affected were workers hailing from outside
Dave
lamented that efforts to create an awareness among the drivers did not have the desired
impact as they stay away from home for a long period. Besides, they
are averse to following the concept of 'safe sex'. As a result
the disease was spreading at a rapid pace.
Dr
Suresh Joshipura, who has done pioneering work in the
fight against AIDS, said that the most alarming aspect of the spread of the
disease was the fact that almost 70
per cent of the new patients were in the 20 to 26 age group.
In
Junagadh, the AIDS spread was more through blood
donation.
The
industrial and port areas of Veraval and the
industrial area of Manavadar have also witnessed a
high rate of AIDS cases.
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