Zee News, 1 September 2014

Kolkata: Number of HIV infections in India will increase if the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) is closed and its activities merged with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), activists and experts said Monday.

Sixty participants representing communities of drug users, male-to-female transgenders, men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSWs) and people living with HIV (PLHIV) from West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar gathered at the "AIDS Momentum 2022' consultative meet here.

Experts argued that in 2003 the BJP-led NDA-1 government had taken the monumental step to make anti-retroviral drugs free for patients in six states when Sushma Swaraj was the health minister.

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New Vission, 1 September 2014

KAMPALA - The Uganda AIDS Commission has established a committee that will scrutinize and clear all anti-HIV/AIDS campaign messages before they are disseminated to the public.

The 18-member committee is headed by Noeline Kaleeba, the founder of TASO.

Other members include Dr. Elizabeth Madraa, Robert Mwesigwa, Erik Friedly, Daudi Ochieng, Robinah Ssempebwa, and Pius Mwinganisa.

Also on the committee are; Sam Enginyu, Beatrice Bisangwa, James Yesiga, Stella Kentutsi, Paul Mukasa, Majorie Kyomuhendo, Patrick Muinda, Edward Mugyimba, Gloria Nantulya, Ssubi Kiwanuka, Agnes Biribonwa and Dr. Chris Oleke.

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Hindustan Times, 2 September 2014

The Himachal Pradesh government on Tuesday issued a notification, making it mandatory for all educational institutions in the state to provide admission to children perceived to be or actually infected with HIV/AIDS.

The notification makes it compulsory for both the private and government institutions to admit children infected with HIV/AIDS. The main objective of the notification is to ensure that such children are not deprived of their legitimate right to education under the Right of Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

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Blog AIDS Gov, 2 September 2014

If your grandmother were to ask you for your Twitter handle or your grandfather wanted to become your Facebook friend, how would you respond? If you posted or tweeted messages related to HIV or AIDS awareness, education or testing among older adults, would you be willing to share that information with your grandparents?

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Eureka Street, 1 September 2014

Over the past few years, the rhetorical response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic has become progressively stronger. At the AIDS 2014 conference held in Melbourne in July, UNAIDS director Michel Sidibé announced the strategic goal of 'Ending HIV by 2030'. The overflowing plenary session heard bold new targets for testing and treatment, as well as stigma reduction. Global targets can be used to benchmark countries – but measuring a reduction in stigma is harder than it sounds.

At a subsequent session, the cavernous chamber was almost empty as a sparse crowd listened to an expert panel on 'evidence based stigma reduction'. As one of my colleagues asked, 'what's the international standard unit for one stigma?'

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