Aids
- Middle East
Over 100 expats with AIDS deported from Kuwait
Kuwait City: Kuwait has deported more than 100 expatriates who have been diagnosed with AIDS after an epidemiological investigation. The deportation step came to ensure control over the spread of the virus.…
- World
Nigeria reports 15,000 AIDS-related deaths annually: Official
Abuja: Nigeria records at least 15,000 deaths related to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) every year despite efforts by the government to curb the spread of the deadly disease in the most populous…
- India
AIDS Society of India urges government to include HIV self-testing in policies
New Delhi: The AIDS Society of India (ASI) on Friday urged the government to include HIV self-testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medicine, taken to prevent from HIV, in its policies and programmes…
- India
Effective treatment of all HIV patients key to end AIDS in India: ASICON
New Delhi: Treating all HIV-positive patients properly to suppress the virus can reduce the transmission of the deadly virus and help India to end AIDS, said Mumbai-based epidemiologist Ishwar Gilada. “We can…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: GHMC to distribute over Rs 3 crore worth aids, artificial limbs to disabled
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) will soon be uptaking free distribution of Rs 3.86 crore worth of selected aids, appliances, and artificial limbs to 3,619 specially-abled and senior citizens. 30…
- Middle East
Saudis donation exceed SAR251 million to help Turkey, Syria earthquake survivors
Riyadh: The value of donations from the Saudi Arabia popular campaign for relief to those affected by the Turkey-Syria earthquakes has reached 251 million Saudi riyals (Rs 5,52,14,07,813) on Saturday, February 11.…
- Telangana
Telangana: 47 in every 10000 infected with HIV-AIDS
Hyderabad: Despite various awareness campaigns 47 people out of 10,000 people in the state are infected by HIV-AIDS. The Telangana State AIDS Control Society is out to raise awareness among the people…
- Middle East
Lebanon calls on int’l community to aid Syrian refugees home return
Beirut: Around 500,000 Syrian refugees have registered for their voluntary return from Lebanon to their homeland, and Beirut has called on the international community and donors to facilitate their forthcoming return. Abbas…
- Bollywood
Salman Khan has daughter in London?
Mumbai: In all 15 of its seasons, Salman Khan’s captive reality show Bigg Boss has seen several contestants, each with their own unique personality that has contributed to the controversial nature of…
- Opinions
AIDS Virus co-discoverer Montagnier visited Hyderabad in 1987; he was enamoured by Golconda Fort
M Somasekhar The setting was the Bala Hisar Pavilion atop the Golconda Fort. The year was November 1987. The highest point of the fort was alive with the baritone voice of well-known…
