IBN Live, 8 July 2014

New Delhi: Mandatory testing for HIV/AIDS in India may scare "away a large number of suspected cases from getting detected and treated", the government opined on Tuesday even as it stated that the country has an estimated 7.77 lakh HIV/AIDS patients.

"Considerable thought has been given to the issue. The government feels that there is no public health rationale for mandatory testing of a person for HIV/AIDS."

"On the other hand, such an approach could be counter- productive as it may scare away a large number of suspected cases from getting detected and treated," Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday told Rajya Sabha in a written reply.

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Tempo.Co, 8 Juli 2014

TEMPO.CO, Cilacap - Sejumlah 67 orang bekas buruh migran asal Cilacap, Jawa Tengah, terdeteksi menderita HIV/AIDS. Mereka dipulangkan dari negara tujuan setelah menjalani pemeriksaan.

"Kami imbau agar sebelum berangkat buruh migran melakukan tes kesehatan di klinik Voluntary Counseling Tes (VCT) Rumah Sakit Umum Daerah (RSUD) Cilacap," kata Manajer Kasus VCT RSUD Cilacap, Rubino Sriadji, Selasa 8 Juli 2014.

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Tribun News, 8 Juli 2014

TRIBUNNEWS.COM,YOGYA - Jumlah kasus HIV/AIDS di Kota Yogyakarta meningkat dan semakin mengkawatirkan.

Hingga Maret 2014, tercatat ada 714 kasus terjadi di Kota Yogyakarta, jumlah tersebut meningkat 5,4 persen dari jumlah kasus akhir tahun lalu yang mencapai 677 kasus.

Dari jumlah tersebut, penyebab paling banyak masih disebabkan karena perilaku seks heteroseksual sebesar 56 persen.

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the Times of India, 7 July 2014

TRICHY: With the number of HIV positive cases increasing, awareness about health complications of unsafe sex needs to be created among the younger generation, according to the district AIDS prevention control unit (DAPCU), which is planning to launch a programme to sensitise migrant workers.

About 1,000 female sex workers (FSM) are in the city while the total number of HIV positive cases is 13,500 in the district. The Tamil Nadu AIDS control society (Tansacs) educates them about the mandatory use of condoms to prevent them from AIDS. But many FSMs do not force the partners to use condoms leading to the increasing number of HIV cases.

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Leadership, 7 July 2014

The fear of HIV/AIDS, that debilitating disease, remains the beginning of wisdom for everyone. A recent report that HIV infection was on the increase in the country was not well received. But in this interview with WINIFRED OGBEBO, the director-general, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Prof. John Idoko debunks such claim, while giving reports of the activities of the agency

A recent report in one of the newspapers said HIV infection is on the increase. How true is this?

Let me start by telling you how some of these figures are arrived at. What has happened is that through our ante natal surveillance report of 2010, UNAID has used that and many other agencies, like CDC etc to model how many new infections there are in Nigeria, basically also, using the population. As you know, one of the things that has happened is that Nigeria's population continues to rise on an annual basis. So if you are using that and putting other issues like number of people on treatment and all that, you tend to get a figure for something like Nigeria which population is expanding at a very rapid rate to continue to grow up.

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