India faces hard fight to beat AIDS in populous state
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EKA, India  - Sitting on a wooden bench under a   slowly whirring fan, 43-year-old Prempal says he urgently needs   anti-retroviral drugs to fight the HIV illness in his body.
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Indian scientists on Monday began the country's first human clinical trials of a vaccine designed to prevent AIDS.
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The Indian state of West Bengal, battling the country's worst outbreak of deadly bird flu, appealed to the federal government to send "all possible help to defeat" the virus.
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NEW DELHI: Thousands took to the streets across India Wednesday to mark World AIDS Day as the government announced a huge media blitz to make the entire billion-plus population aware of the pandemic in six months.
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With a view to strengthening the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria in the country, the Global Fund, a US-based funding agency, has asked the Indian government to rope in the private sector.
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Activists handed out condoms to passers-by and pamphlets urging people not to inject drugs, challenging conservative social mores in Asia as the region marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday with vows to fight harder to halt the disease&#39;s spread.
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A network of HIV-positive people in India has launched a national campaign against thousands of illegal backstreet clinics and quacks who cheat patients with the promise of curing AIDS.
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Calcutta: Team India captain Sourav Ganguly and his South African counterpart Graeme Smith joined hands with captains of seven other Test playing nations to lend support to the fight against HIV/AIDS on the occasion of World AIDS Day on Wednesday.
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BOMBAY, India  - India, home to the world's second  largest HIV population after South Africa, is set to begin  human trials of a new vaccine against the virus in January, a  research institute said Tuesday.
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India has the world's largest number of HIV-infected people, the head of a top international AIDS-fighting fund said Wednesday, dismissing official figures.    "I don't believe in the official statistics...
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India, home to the world's second-largest HIV population after South Africa, began its first ever human trials of a new vaccine against the deadly virus Monday, the health minister said.
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Pakistani health workers are to travel to India to receive training in treating people infected with HIV/Aids.
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The rate of HIV/AIDS cases in Uganda, a  country widely praised for its fight against the disease, may  be nearly three times as high as official figures suggest,  according to an NGO that works with HIV/AIDS sufferers.
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Guwahati: Almost 280 blood donors in Tripura have been found to be HIV-positive, raising fears that supplies from blood banks in the region could be infected, a government report said.
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India must get on top of its HIV  epidemic by next year or risk seeing it spiral out of control,  the man who controls the richest private anti-AIDS fund in the  country and a senior United Nations official warned.
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At least 278 blood donors in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Tripura were found to be HIV-positive, fuelling fears that blood supplied from blood banks in the region could be infected with the killer virus that causes AIDS.
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India starts its first human trials of an Aids vaccine with 30 volunteers in the western city of Pune.