(CNS): The 4th Open Forum Conference was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 18th and 19th August to address key issues in developing new drugs for tuberculosis, which kills nearly 2 million people every year and is becoming increasingly resistant to the current drugs. The conference, with a special focus on Africa, brought together regulators, [...]

By Shaikh Sharik Mumbai (ANI): Actress Deepika Padukone has said dieting should not be about starving, or stopping oneself from eating, but about eating what suits the body. Launching of a book and a DVD called ”Jaldi Fit” by fitness expert Namita Jain, on Wednesday in Mumbai, she said: “Understand what suits your body and [...]

(CNS): Despite of AIDS programmes prioritising men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) and transgender people as high risk communities, not only the existing services are reaching appalling low numbers of MSM and trangender people, but also the funding for programmes targeting these communities is shockingly, namesake. “Funding for programmes that address sexual health needs of MSM people in Asia [...]

K N Srinivasan writes: The very expansion of the abbreviation NIEPMD-National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities clearly spells out the role of the institute. NIEPMD established in 2005 under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is located at Muttukadu about 30 kilometers from Chennai in Kancheepuram District and is doing a yeoman [...]

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a study analyzing evidence in Asia-Pacific on how punitive and discriminatory laws and human rights violations limit access to HIV prevention and care services for men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) and transgender people. The study report “Legal environments, human rights and HIV responses among men who have sex with men and [...]

(CNS): The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences. Injection drug use (IDU) is one of the main modes of HIV transmission in parts of Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. “Apart from medical harms associated with drug use, all other harms [...]

(CNS): Tuberculosis (TB) is a major killer of children in poor countries. Over 250,000 children develop TB and every one minute two children die of TB worldwide. It has been estimated that as many as one third of the world’s population is infected with TB, and an estimated 20-50% of children who live in households [...]

(CNS): Just a week before the world’s largest AIDS Conference opens in Vienna, Austria, yet another woman has committed suicide on being told of her HIV positive status. The XVIII International AIDS Conference (XVIII IAC) will open next week on the theme of “Rights Here, Rights Now.” Wish if this yet another death due to [...]

(CNS): The World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2010, is a critical point in the 2010: Year of the Lung campaign, according to the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). Studies show that 50% of all deaths from lung disease are linked to tobacco use. “Strengthening tobacco control is the single most [...]

(CNS): “Use of lubricants may put individuals at higher risk” said Professor (Dr) Ian McGowan, co-chair of the International Microbicides Conference (M2010) in Pittsburgh, USA at a press conference. “One of the M2010 themes is the growing realization that there is a significant issue of HIV acquisition through rectal sex not only for men who [...]

(CNS): The theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is “Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women.”  It is designed to draw particular attention to the harmful effects of tobacco marketing towards women and girls. Controlling the epidemic of tobacco among women is an important part of any comprehensive tobacco [...]

Globally, men who have sex with men (MSMs) and transgenders have a higher rate of HIV incidence, due to appalling attention towards their health needs. In the words of Shivananda Khan, who was conferred upon the prestigious Order of The British Empire (OBE) by the British Queen, for his services to HIV/AIDS prevention and among [...]

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (MW):  Editors Note: There is a photo and a video associated with this press release. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today kicked off its World Diabetes Day campaign under the slogan “Let’s take control of diabetes. Now.” Led by the International Diabetes Federation and its member associations, World Diabetes Day is celebrated every [...]

(CNS): Are the tobacco control laws, as envisaged in the COTPA (Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003) and the Ban on Smoking in Public Places being enforced and followed in the city of Lucknow? And are the citizens any wiser about the hazards of smoking and tobacco consumption? To find the ground reality, some [...]