Reaffirming India’s commitment to accelerating progress toward ending Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) will observe the national-level commemoration of World AIDS Day 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, in the national capital on Monday.
HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are on the rise in the Western Pacific region, reversing years of progress in the fight against the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
Even as the Government of Tripura issued a clarification on misleading reports of HIV cases in the state, health experts on Wednesday said that it “is just the tip of the iceberg.”
An AIDS awareness programme was organised by NSS unit of Rajganj College in Jalpaiguri to commemorate Red Ribbon Day as symbol of solidarity in the fight against HIV at the college premises on Friday.
We could also save several more from getting HIV infections during the past two decades. But the country of 1.43 billion people in 28 states and 9 union territories spread over 3.3 million square km of land, has its own challenges.
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In May, an international team of experts from the WHO arrived in Pakistan to probe the HIV outbreak.
It is one of the vital obligations of the nation to ensure the creation and subsequent maintenance of conditions conducive to good health as has been cited in the Constitutional directives contained in Articles 38, 39(e), 39 (f), 42, 47 and 48 A in Part IV of the Constitution of India.
By June end, there were 8,20,756 living with HIV and AIDS -- an increase from 7,20,000 since June 2017.
The act also seeks to prohibit discrimination against persons with HIV and AIDS and to provide for confidentiality with regard to their treatment.
