India is one of the 2nd largest populated countries in the world, with over one billion inhabitants. Of this number, it’s estimated that more or less 7 million Indians are currently living with HIV. HIV emerged later in India than it did in many other countries. Infection rates soared throughout the 1990s, and today the epidemic affects all sectors of Indian society, not just the groups â?? such as sex workers and truck drivers â?? with which it was originally associated. The vast size of India makes it difficult to examine the effects of HIV on the country as a whole. The majority of states within India have a higher population than most African countries, so a more detailed picture of the crisis can be gained by looking at each state individually.
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Hiv / Aids In India A Review
July 15th, 2010 
VaL HIV/AIDS – India An overview
AIDS considered as the modern pandemic of the world and With more than 5 million people estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS, India’s HIV/AIDS prevalence is second in the world only to South Africa.
The Government of India estimates that in 2006, about 2.45 million Indians were living with HIV (1.75 – 3.15 million) with an adult prevalence rate of 0.41%. India’s highly heterogeneous epidemic is largely concentrated in six states – in the industrialized south and west, and in the north-eastern tip. On average, HIV prevalence in those states is 4-5 times higher than in the other Indian states. (more…)
What you Need to Know About Hiv
June 22nd, 2010 VaL HIV is an abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS as it is generally called, is the result of this virus. When a person has AIDS, the immune system gradually break downs. The patient then becomes highly susceptible to infections and illnesses, which could even, be fatal. History dates its origin to June 5th 1981 in Los Angeles where the virus was found in five homosexual men. It was then called GRID or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency because people thought it only affected homosexual people. This theory was soon blown to pieces when cases were reported from all over. Today, AIDS has reached epidemic proportions. It has plagued most countries around the world and is considered a highly dangerous disease.
To gain a better understanding of HIV, we must first explore how it is transmitted.
a. HIV is a sexually transmitted disease. What does this mean? The mucous membrane lines different parts of the body such as the lips, genital areas, nostrils etc. When the mucous membrane comes in contact with sexual secretions of an infected HIV patient, the virus transfers from one to another. This is why the main cause for the spread of AIDS is unprotected sexual intercourse. (more…)
Prevention Gel for AIDS is Fails in Trial
March 3rd, 2010 VaL 
In another setback for the fight against AIDS, a microbicide to protect women against infection has failed in the largest trial of its kind, researchers said Monday.
That failure, several researchers said, was the last nail in the coffin for this type of microbicide — gels containing molecules that clump around the virus before it reaches the vaginal wall. Attention is now turning to gels and rings that release constant doses of antiretroviral drugs to kill the virus or stop it from reproducing.
The trial took four years and involved 9,385 women in four African countries. Known by the nickname MDP 301 (for Microbicides Development Program), the trial was overseen by the British Medical Research Council, which announced the results.
The gel had no effect: 4.1 percent of those who used it were infected, as were 4 percent of those who used a placebo.
“It is bitterly disappointing for us, but it will inform the way we go forward,” Dr. Sheena McCormack, the trial’s chief investigator, said in an interview. (more…)
About HIV / aids
February 28th, 2010 VaL 
HIV / AIDS is a new era of science and technology, global issues and we should be aware of the general AIDS problem is that the challenge of human existence. Children and young people need to use that will help them face these challenges and help them make healthy lifestyle choices in the knowledge, attitudes, values and skills, equipment, and when they grow. Be provided through the school of education a child can be helped to face these challenges and to make such a choice one way.
To provide information on HIV (transmission, risk factors of information, how to avoid infection) is a necessary but not sufficient, leading to health on behavior change. Programs to provide accurate information to counter myths and misinformation, often to report the improvement in knowledge and attitudes, but this lack of correlation with regard to behavior change and risk-taking and Italy on the behavior of the results.
Education can be effective in achieving behavior change and to withstand challenges on HIV / AIDS in. Schools may have one of the two is the practice of discrimination, prejudice and excessive fear of the property rights that commitment to the community or a place. School policies need to ensure that every child and young people have the right to life education; In particular, when that education for HIV infection to survive and retreat is necessary. An estimated 40 million people around the world, with HIV or AIDS to live, or at least one-third of young people age 15-24 of those. (more…)
