How AIR Madras reached out to public with innovative programming

Studio-bound broadcasting, of which we get a goodly share in India, tends to lose touch with the listener as well as navel-gaze. When AIR Madras decided some weeks ago to start a social experiment of its own, it could not …

Day after TOI report on eviction of HIV+ children, landlord takes them back

TNN Nov 11, 2011, 06.36AM IST

JAIPUR: Taking a strong view of the TOI report on HIV positive children asked to vacate a rented accommodation by the landlord, officials of the district administration and the medical and health department on …

Landlord evicts 19 HIV+ kids

Says Action Taken Due To Pressure from Neighbours

Nov 10,2011- Jaipur: A group of 19 HIV positive children, most of whom have lost their parents to the disease or have been thrown out of their homes by close relatives, have …

Can we find cure to these scourges?

Vatsala Vedantam

Eradication of HIV must be the priority, if we are to eradicate TB as well in the country.

It is a strange contradiction that while India celebrates being home to the world’s leading corporate giants and wealthiest persons, …

Finding Balance

Shruti Nambiar
Posted: Mon Oct 31 2011, 00:59 hrs

Santulan de-addiction centre has been running a successful dabba service operated by recovering addicts. It will soon open a free clinic to provide them counselling and medication

Javed Pathan was a …

Interesting Article about the History of HIV/AIDS

Chimp to Man to History Books: The Path of AIDS

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: October 17, 2011

Our story begins sometime close to 1921, somewhere between the Sanaga River in Cameroon and the Congo River in the former …

Maharashtra launches multi-pronged drive to curb HIV-AIDS

Pune, September 17, 2011

A staggering number of around one lakh HIV-AIDS positive people are availing the anti-retro viral therapy (ART) in government medical facilities of Maharashtra, which is the number two state in the country in prevalence of the …

Non-hijra transgenders struggle for identity

Published: Sunday, Sep 18, 2011, 10:00 IST
By Gee Ameena Suleiman | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

Hijra isn’t the only transgender identity. There are others, such as female-to-male transgenders, who don’t draw attention to themselves, and struggle to find …

Overcoming barriers through technology

Can technology help surmount the major barriers to effective learning of HIV/AIDS — cultural and sociological?

This question took founder and CEO of TeachAIDS Piya Sorcar, …