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Thursday, December 03, 2009
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
The predicted has come true
For long we have been telling that in Amritsar many get the virus because of addiction--see the groups presenatations at various international and national fora.The group is ready to help any NGO or SACO,if they want our help.
Also I want to inform that now onwards Bharti Derma Care and research center will provide hands on traing to new pass outs for dermatology,STD including HIv and Leprosy.
Read the following news which can be an eye opener and as always said it is nevevr too late.
AIDS INDIA] Maximum HIV+ drug addicts in Amritsar
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Maximum HIV+ drug addicts in Amritsar
Chitleen K Sethi
Tribune News Service/ Chandigarh, May 29
Amritsar district now has the highest number of HIV positive intravenous drug users (IDUs) in the country. According to the latest figures released by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Amritsar has overshot Churchandpur district of Manipur in this regard.
IDUs are among the high-risk groups contracting HIV. According to Sentinel Surveillance and Estimation Report 2007, released recently by NACO, the national average of HIV prevalence among IDUs is about 7.23 per cent, while in Amritsar this has been found to be as high as 30.4 per cent. In Churchandpur it is about 28 per cent followed by Chennai (27.2 per cent) and Mumbai suburban (24.4 per cent).
The revelation has rung alarm bells in the state, and officials of the Punjab State AIDS Control Society are learnt to have briefed Minister of Health Laxmi Kanta Chawla about the situation. Chawla is an MLA from Amritsar.
The incidence of IDUs in Amritsar is high mainly because of the easy availability of injectable drugs in the border districts of Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur.
Amritsar also has the highest incidence of HIV positive persons in the state. Over 5,400 persons here have tested HIV positive. At Patiala, over 2,000 persons are HIV positive and in Jalandhar the number is over 1,700. Ludhiana has almost a 1,000 persons who are HIV positive followed by Gurdaspur, where over 600 persons have been found to be HIV positive.
According to the state AIDS Control Society, Punjab has over 15,000 HIV positive persons (till April 2009). In all India perspective, this is over 11 per cent of the total HIV positive population in the country.
"The figures, which we provide NACO for the compilation of data, do not include the number of HIV patients in the high-risk groups. That figure will be added to the final count from next year. The number of HIV positive persons is likely to be double than what the figures say right now," said Dr NM Sharma, additional project director of the state AIDS Control Society.
According to the NACO report, the state-wise HIV prevalence among IDUs is highest in Maharashtra at 24.4 per cent followed by Manipur (17.9 per cent), Tamil Nadu (16.8 per cent), Punjab (13.8 per cent), Delhi (10.1 per cent) and Chandigarh (8.6 per cent). Chandigarh the city has almost 450 registered HIV positive persons.
Haryana is suspected to have over 42000 HIV positive persons with the disease most prevalent among truckers, followed by commercial sex workers and intravenous drug users.
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An eFORUM for information and communication on HIV/AIDS and related issues made easily accessible to inform practice and p
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
You can save a life
These are works of HIV patients which the group proposes to auction so that money can be raised to save the life of the patient(s) who did this splendid job even while fighting with the disease
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
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