ST tag eludes Adivasis OUR CORRESPONDENT Guwahati, Nov. 30: Five Assam-based...
Guwahati, Nov. 30: Five Assam-based Adivasi militant groups in ceasefire today expressed unhappiness over the tardy progress in according Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to 80 lakh Adivasis living in the...
View ArticleSpeech by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the session of the...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) I hereby welcome the participants of the session of the Civil Society Forum. I think that it is a very good initiative. The fact that...
View ArticleCroatia votes on whether to ban gay marriages
Comment () Tweet By ELDAR EMRIC, Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatians on Sunday are voting in a referendum that could ban gay marriages after conservative groups, backed by the Roman...
View ArticleAids: So close to a cure
From a crowded office at Vancouver's St. Paul's hospital, Dr. Julio Montaner likes to track his progress, and the progress of the disease that for 30 years has been the focus of his life. Keeping track...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day 2013: Focus on Adolescents (Government of the Republic of...
(Source: Government of the Republic of Mauritius) Description GIS - 02 December, 2013: Although we are in the Information Age with advanced technological gadgets, some adolescents still lack access to...
View ArticleREGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE (UNOG - United Nations...
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the...
View ArticleAnti-gang bill may seriously impact music industry - Artistes should lobby...
Curtis Campbell, Gleaner Writer Tourism State Minister Damion Crawford believes the move to create a law which will force local artistes to refrain from creating music with content that is deemed as...
View ArticleSyrian Army goes all-in to take back strategic highway
An offensive by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to restore full control of the Qalamoun area north of Damascus is fully under way, with fierce fighting and shelling reported for the past...
View ArticlePositive impact
ANYONE is vulnerable and needs information, especially those who think that they cannot be infected. For over 30 years, the HIV and AIDS pandemic killed more than 30 million people. Treatments are...
View ArticleAids workers turn matchmakers with good success
NAGPUR: Guidelines from National AIDS Control IOrganization (NACO) say that the officials at the government's counselling centres must provide psycho-social support to all patients. The ART...
View ArticleIndia should shift focus to migrants in AIDS fight: UN
India has been "fairly successful" in fighting AIDS by targeting key affected populations such as intravenous drug users, transgendered people, sex workers and homosexuals, but it's focus must broaden...
View ArticleMore than 30 years on, slow-motion AIDS catastrophe continues
November 29, 2013 -- Updated 1302 GMT (2102 HKT) AIDS activists light a group of candles placed in the shape of a red ribbon during an event marking World AIDS Day. Editor's note: Simon Watney is an...
View ArticleIn Florida, Puerto Ricans want equality back home
Puerto Rican attorney Iara Rodriguez waved campaign signs and cheered at the 2012 Democratic Convention as President Barack Obama was nominated. But the delegate's euphoria faded when she returned home...
View ArticleUnited Nations warns China of need to tackle HIV risks for women
China could follow the dangerous path of several African countries where more women than men fall prey to the Aids epidemic if the country fails to enact powerful measures to tackle the problem,...
View ArticleThe Formula for Getting to Zero? Testing, Treating... and Talking
Illinois recently became the 16th state to legally recognize the marriages of same-sex couples. Much has changed for LGBT equality in the short 10 years since Massachusetts became the first state to...
View ArticleOn this World AIDS Day, I Celebrate Black Gay Men
I was nine years old when I first heard the word AIDS. My friend and I were playing on a dirty mattress outside of my housing project building. My friend's mother must have seen us from her 5th floor...
View ArticleYoung Women and HIV in Guyana: Asserting their Right to Protect Themselves...
(Source: UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund) Throughout the world, the vast majority of people who are HIV-positive - 80 per cent - contracted the virus through unprotected sex - that is, by not...
View ArticleTask Force marks World AIDS Day with a call for greater focus on combating...
(Source: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) Media Contact: Mark Daley Director of Communications (Office) 202.639.6325 (Cell) 202.379.8318 mdaley@thetasktorce.org Pedro Julio Serrano Media and Public...
View ArticlePUDEMO Statement on World AIDS Day 2013 (COSATU - The Congress of South...
(Source: COSATU - The Congress of South African Trade Unions) PUDEMO tatement on World AIDS Day 2013 1 December 2013 Once again we join the people of the world in commemorating one of the most...
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