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Articles 13321 through 13420 of 20587:
- Big Pharma’S Bitter Pills (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Dec 02, 2005)
When my two-year old daughter started bumping into furniture and tripping over her toes, I was puzzled; she had been walking for a year with reasonable co-ordination.
- Pm Sets 2008 Deadline For Aids Healthcare Revamp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Restructuring of the healthcare system to ensure a comprehensive package of services to the community and to HIV infected persons. This, according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will be his government’s goal in the next two years.
- Clean Politics Is Our Birthright (Indian Express, J.S. BINDRA, Dec 02, 2005)
In your editorial of October 17, you have made some very charitable comments on Sonia Gandhi’s code of conduct. Her prescription is like giving aspirin to a cancer patient. The hypocrisy and humbug that mark our politicians today is breathtaking;
- Aids Treatment Programme Way Off Target (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Study shows that people with HIV/AIDS have limited access to drugs
- Kalam Outlines Crucial Research Areas To Foster Growth (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
President seeks the help of scientists to help solve the issues
Proteomics much more challenging than figuring out the human genome
Urgent need to track multiple parameters and predict earthquakes
- Pm Promises Aids Package In 2 Years (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday promised to restructure the health care delivery system within the next two years so that a package comprising medicine and healthcare could reach scores of HIV/AIDS patients.
- Not By Medicines Alone Parties Must Put Aids On The Agenda (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 02, 2005)
On the occasion of the World AIDS Day, the government has announced its decision to launch, early next year, the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP)-III, with a pronounced rural thrust. It’s a welcome move — there are more HIV/AIDS patients in rural ar
- Tn: Madurai Selected For 'Phase Three Aids Control Programme' (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Madurai district of Tamil Nadu has been selected for the launch of the 'Phase three' of the National AIDS Control Programme.
- Intensive Aids Awareness Campaign Gets Under Way (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
265 voluntary counselling and testing centres in the Nilgiris
- An All-Star Line-Up For An "Aids-Free India" (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Dec 02, 2005)
Bollywood stars Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty and Sharmila Tagore and cricket star Kapil Dev took time off their busy schedules to share the stage with political leaders and policymakers here in the Capital on Thursday to stand up . . .
- Kalam Suggests A Network Of Rivers In Tamil Nadu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
"The Cauvery could be linked with the Vaigai, Palar and Tamiraparani"
- Call To Join Crusade Against Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
A wing has been constructed in Tirunelveli to deal with HIV positive people
- Steps To Prevent Mother-To-Child Hiv Transmission: Health Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Sustained campaign in all districts to create awareness among pregnant women
- Aids Awareness Camps To Be Held In 58 Places (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Do not humiliate or neglect HIV patients, says Collector
- Stars Join Leaders In Aids Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Education, awareness only vaccination against the disease: Sonia
Change in outlook towards the disease stressed
People who despise HIV-positive persons need not view my films, says Salman
We only need to be careful: Kapil Dev
- Treat Aids Patients With Sensitivity: Jayakumar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Inaugurates automatic condom vending machine in city Inaugurates automatic condom vending machine in city
- Barnala Commends Hard Work Put In By Aids Agencies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Urges health institutions to come out with concrete plans to step up action against AIDS
- ‘Afghanistan Sitting On Hiv Time Bomb’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Afghanistan has recorded only three deaths from AIDS but is sitting on a ticking “time bomb” of HIV with thousands of people injecting drugs, the United Nations and a think tank warned Thursday.
- United States Inks 5-Year Afghanistan Grants (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
The US government signed an agreement here Thursday committing itself to grants over five years for development in war-ravaged Afghanistan that could amount to about five billion dollars.
- Afghan Prosperity — Still A Dream For Most (Daily Times, SAYED SALAHUDDIN, Dec 02, 2005)
A problem for President Hamid Karzai, a year after he formed a new government following a sweeping election victory, is that people’s expectations have been raised, but not met
- Bihar Redeems Its Pledge (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 02, 2005)
The recent Assembly elections in Bihar will be treated as a milestone in the history of Indian democracy. Though all elections are important in one way or the other, Bihar elections were a cut above the rest. First, they ended the 15-year . . .
- Line Up Before Pm, Sonia Tells Cms (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has asked the chief ministers of Karnataka and Maharashtra to meet the prime minister and discuss the boundary dispute and the recent dissolution of the Belgaum municipal corporation.
- Those Aren't Netaji's Ashes In Renkoji (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Dec 02, 2005)
The Justice MK Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (JMCI), which presented its final report to the UPA Government in early-November, has conclusively established that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not die in an air crash at Taiwan's Taihoku airport . . .
- Those Aren't Netaji's Ashes In Renkoji (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Dec 02, 2005)
The Justice MK Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (JMCI), which presented its final report to the UPA Government in early-November, has conclusively established that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not die in an air crash at Taiwan's Taihoku . . .
- Australia Pledges $7.4 M To Fight Aids In India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Australia’s government marked World AIDS Day today by announcing a $ 7.4 million aid programme to help battle the deadly disease in India.
- She Is Hiv+ But Faces No Stigma (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
For Amarjot Kaur, resident of a village in Fatehgarh Sahib, a mention of her HIV status invites a simple resignation to the dictates of destiny. Like any other HIV Positive, she narrates how the virus was passed on to her by her husband, a truck driver,
- Germany: Angela Merkel Faces Tough Challenges (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 02, 2005)
After cumbersome negotiations over several weeks, Angela Merkel got elected on the November 22, 2005, as the first woman Chancellor in Germany’s history with the votes of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) as well as . . .
- The Day After (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 02, 2005)
Ever since Health Ministers' Conference in London in January 1988, December 1 has been observed as World AIDS Day. The global struggle against the killer virus turned 18 this year, almost universally recognised as the age of consent, when adolescents move
- Not Very Slick (Economist, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
It was, insisted a top provincial official, a “white lie”. But government attempts to suppress news of an 80km (50 mile) toxic chemical slick creeping along a big river in north-eastern China have unleashed a torrent of criticism by the country's . . .
- If You Can't Shoot The Messenger, Lock Him Up (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 01, 2005)
President Bush's alleged threat to bombAl Jazeerashouldn't surprise us. Ever since the NATO attack on Yugoslavia, the U.S. has looked at the media it can't control as the "enemy."
- Freedom Unlimitted, Disaster Indescribable (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 01, 2005)
We can call it a sexual Glasnost. A world where buggery, bestiality, adultery, incest and all such diabolic deeds of a human being have made even devil blush with himself.
- Aids Day To Be Observed Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Candles were lit in a symbolic gesture for awareness against HIV/AIDS in Fort Kochi on Wednesday. Several organisations joined in the mass education held at the Vasco da gama Square on the eve of AIDS Day.
- Rallies, Walk To Mark Aids Day (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Various programmes are being organised in the city in connection with the observation of World AIDS Day on Thursday.
- 153 Test Positive For Hiv In Chitradurga (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
District administration to observe World AIDS Day today
- `Hype About Aids Creating Fear Psychosis' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
'While many have lost their jobs, there are instances where HIV infected people have been denied their share of property'
- Incidence Of Hiv, Aids Increasing, Says Official (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Of the 6,128 persons who took the test in the three VCTCs in the district, 1,287 tested HIV positive
- People With Hiv To Get Insurance (Hindu, Divya Ramamurthi, Dec 01, 2005)
Three kinds of policies have been planned to be offered from next year
The policies will be launched in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu in January
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have high prevalence of HIV/AIDS cases
- Congress Includes Job Guarantee In Panchayat Poll Manifesto (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Party promises host of schemes and facilities for people in rural areas, launches poll campaign
Other features
Better infrastructure for rural areas
Food and shelter for all
Compulsory education of children
- Subsidised Drugs Sought For Hiv Patients (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Also calls for making HIV test compulsory before marriage to contain spread of disease
There are 1,09,349 AIDS cases in India, of which 11,819 alone are in Andhra Pradesh
Work of voluntary counselling and testing centres needs to be augmented
- Management Gurus To Guide Aids Mission (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
For guiding the Rs-1 billion third phase of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP-III) beginning next year, the Centre plans to rope in top management gurus including experts from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.
- China Develops Aids Drug (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
China has developed its first AIDS drug with independent intellectual property right, the producers announced here on Wednesday.
- Bjp Workers On Rampage Protesting Mla’S Killing (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Angry BJP workers on Wednesday went on a rampage setting ablaze three railway stations, a power sub-station and several houses in eastern Uttar Pradesh protesting the killing of BJP legislator Krishnanand Rai.
- World Bank Steps Up Global Anti-Aids Program (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Money is available, treatment is better and much of the mystery is gone from prevention, treatment and care of AIDS. Yet more people will become infected with the HIV virus and die from the disease itself in 2005 than in any previous year, the World Bank
- Australia To Help India Fight Aids (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Australia's government marked World AIDS Day on Thursday by announcing USD 7.4 million aid program to help battle the deadly disease in India.
- Law Fails To Curb Foeticide (Tribune, Amandeep Aggarwal, Dec 01, 2005)
More than 10 years have passed after the enactment of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Treatment (PNDT) Act, but the purpose has still not been served because people who want to get sex determination of a foetus done are getting it done.
- Pakistan Courting Israel (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Dec 01, 2005)
Just on the eve of its nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, Pakistan summoned India’s High Commissioner Satish Chandra and alleged that Israeli F-16 aircraft based in Chennai were preparing to strike at its nuclear installations.
- Party Encounter (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
There seems no easy way of return to glory. For Ms Uma Bharti, the exultation of victory by a three-fourth mandate in Madhya Pradesh is now most firmly in the past.
- Aids Undermines Development (Tribune, Ishwar Chandra Dhyani, Dec 01, 2005)
AIDS reverses the gains of development, undermines the foundations for development and targets the most vulnerable.
- Quake Survivors Plead For Help In Indian Kashmir (Reuters, Sheikh Mushtaq, Dec 01, 2005)
Sarwar Jan and her eight shivering children collect a handful of twigs to light a fire in their little tin shed as it snows heavily outside.
- Aids Stalks Indian Highways (Hindustan Times, Margie Mason, Dec 01, 2005)
Zalisz Ahmed paid US$1 and lost his virginity on the side of the road to one of India's countless young truck-stop prostitutes. He's had unprotected sex with many others since and says he's never heard of AIDS.
- Health Minister Says Concerned About Aids Awareness (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Dec 01, 2005)
India's health minister expressed concern on Wednesday about AIDS awareness, monitoring and treatment, saying the latest official count in India could have fallen short of the real number of infections.
- Lurking In The Mainstream (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
The discomfiture that followed Sir Mark Moody-Stuart’s announcement that the IT industry, including call centres, may be susceptible to the spread of HIV makes its own unfortunate statement.
- Stopping Aids (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 01, 2005)
The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) theme for 2005 to 2010, “Stop Aids: Keep the Promise,” is a trenchant reminder to all concerned – governments, institutions, international organisations, NGOs and, indeed, all men and women – that the world has not done . . .
- Steps To Fight Aids At Highway Dhabas (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
The Health Ministry has approached the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the hotel sector to explore if they would cooperate in making condoms available at all highways ‘dhabas’ (roadside eateries) and men’s rest rooms.
- Walking A Year, In War With Aids (Telegraph, CP Bhambhri, Dec 01, 2005)
Ajay Panwar gave up a year of college in the hills of Mussoorie to walk the nation’s highways, past deserts, coastlines and forests.
- Still Vulnerable To Disease And Death (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 01, 2005)
Extracts from the Human Development Report 2005
- Wb Steps Up Global Anti-Aids Programme (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Money is available, treatment is better and much of the mystery is gone from prevention, treatment and care of AIDS.
- Australia Pledges $7.4 Mn To Fight Aids In India (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Australia's government marked World AIDS Day on Thursday by announcing a $7.4 million aid programme to help battle the deadly disease in India.
- Brazil Bucks Aids Trend, But Blacks Are Hard-Hit (Reuters, Andrew Hay, Dec 01, 2005)
Bucking a global rise in HIV infection, Brazil reported a slight fall on Wednesday in the spread of the virus last year but blamed racism for a marked increase in the proportion of AIDS cases among blacks.
- Campaign Against Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
The health authorities in the district will observe World AIDS Day on Thursday with a variety of programmes. An awareness rally will be taken out from the Collectorate premises on Thursday morning. District Collector M. Sivasankar will flag off the rally.
- It’S Only The First Round (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Dec 01, 2005)
No matter which way the numbers are stacked, there is only one clear winner in the long-drawn Bihar Sudoku: a Sikh gentleman generally resident in Delhi who barely intervened in the turmoil of India’s most turbulent state except to give . . . .
- Aids Fight To Shift Focus (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
NACP-III to target rural areas
Intensive planning for third phase of NACP
Ministries to be asked to earmark funds
Coverage under Anti-Retroviral Therapy to be increased
- `Communication Skill In English Essential For Successful Career' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Madan Thangavelu of Cambridge University delivered a guest lecture on `Engineering in Biology' at VPMM Engineering College for Women, Krishnankoil, recently.
- Central Team To Submit Floods Report Next Week (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Commends State Government for its timely action
- Societal Support For Aids Patients Crucial, Says Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has called for generating awareness to prevent the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in her message to the State on the occasion of World AIDS Day on December 1.
- Aids Treatment Programme Way Off Target (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Study shows that people with HIV/AIDS have limited access to drugs
- Us Delegation Satisfied With Indo-Pak Dialogue On Kashmir (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 01, 2005)
A visiting US Congressional delegation said on Wednesday that it was satisfied that Pakistan and India were seriously addressing the Kashmir issue.
- ‘India Ruined Sikh Holy Places, Pakistan Taking Care’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Elahi promises ‘pleasant changes’ to Sikhs next year
* Wagah-Nankana dual carriageway under construction
- Aids Day On December 1: 70,000 Aids Victims In Pakistan, 2,300 Registered (Daily Times, Ali Waqar, Dec 01, 2005)
95 percent of 45 million AIDS victims from underdeveloped countries
* About half of new victims are young people
- On How Balance-Sheets Weather Global Financial Storms (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 01, 2005)
The Bank for International Settlements "fosters cooperation among central banks and other agencies in pursuit of monetary and financial stability," informs www.bis.org.
- Different `Reserves' And Deepwater Economics (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 01, 2005)
Till March 2003, there was no accounting literature on the oil and gas industry, notes Ernst & Young (E&Y) in a chapter included in Oil & Gas Exploration and Production in India: A Reference Book, from Infraline (www.infraline.com), . . .
- Barreling On (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Dec 01, 2005)
The economy continues to outpace forecasters, none of whom predicted either the 8.1 per cent GDP growth achieved in the first quarter, nor the 8 per cent now reported by the Central Statistical Organisation for the second (July-September) quarter.
- Keeping Drugs Affordable (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 01, 2005)
The Government Plan to peg prices of drugs supplied to the hospitals sector at 50 per cent of the MRP (maximum retail price) may not be the best, but is certainly the closest the Centre has got to addressing the issue of affordability of medicines.
- Dialogue With The ‘Other’ (Deccan Herald, Valson Thampu , Dec 01, 2005)
Enlarging one’s circle of influence is often mistaken for a breakthrough in inter-religious goodwill
- I Prefer Dead Relatives (Indian Express, Kathryn Hughes, Dec 01, 2005)
One of the more convenient side-effects of the explosion of interest in family history is that you need never again be stumped for what to give your nearest and dearest for Christmas. Instead of a lacklustre pair of socks or bottle of whisky, . . .
- Hiv Cases On The Rise In Shimoga (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
District brought under high-risk zones in State
911 cases reported in district from 1987 to February 2005
Voluntary testing centre set up at McGann Hospital
HIV-affected people to be provided treatment and legal advice
- Beneath The Glitter Of Democracy (Dawn, Jonathan Freedland, Dec 01, 2005)
Think of it as the Sinatra test. On Sunday, assorted liberal, democratic and opposition groups will take on the might of Vladimir Putin in elections for the Moscow city parliament.
- Bush Vows "Victory" In Iraq (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Democrats ask the President to spell out his optimism in detail
- Complex Rehabilitation Task (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Dec 01, 2005)
The government has raised the total compensation for those whose households were destroyed by the Oct 8 earthquake in Azad Kashmir and the NWFP from 20 billion rupees to 80 billion rupees.
- Iict Signs Pact With Swiss Firm On Drugs Research (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) here and Switzerland-based Evolva, a leading biotechnology drug discovery company, on Wednesday signed a five-year agreement to collaborate in medicinal chemistry and cell biology.
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