Persons living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Capital will soon be allowed free travel on Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses. In a meeting with the Delhi State AIDS Council (DSACS), the state Health minister announced measures that would be ‘practical and helpful’ for PLHIV.
The state will also approach the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to extend the free-ride facility to PLHIV. “HIV/AIDS patients and their attendants will be allowed free travel in DTC buses to antiretroviral treatment (ART) centres and hospitals for check-up and treatment. The patient will be provided with BPL cards for this purpose. We are also in the process of ensuring that the patients get to avail free tests without having to spend money on diagnostics for opportunistic infections. We will also speak to DMRC officials about allowing free Metro travel for PLHIV,” Kiran Walia, state Health minister, said.
by Express News Service (www.indianexpress.com)
Persons living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Capital will soon be allowed free travel on Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses. In a meeting with the Delhi State AIDS Council (DSACS), the state Health minister announced measures that would be ‘practical and helpful’ for PLHIV. The state will also approach the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) [...]
On Dec 1, 2009 at the Nokio theatre in NYC, Alicia Keys hosted a ‘One Night Only’ concert to benefit her non-profit organization ‘Keep a Child Alive’. Watch the rebroadcast of Alicia Key’s performance from NYC’s Nokia Theatre on World AIDS Day 12.01.09.
Keep a Child Alive is a non profit organization founded by Leigh Blake and Alicia Keys herself, that is dedicated to providing providing life-saving anti-retrovirus treatment, care and support services to children and families whose live has been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India, by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.
Written by Prudence Chauke (www.jamati.com)
On Dec 1, 2009 at the Nokio theatre in NYC, Alicia Keys hosted a ‘One Night Only’ concert to benefit her non-profit organization ‘Keep a Child Alive’. Watch the rebroadcast of Alicia Key’s performance from NYC’s Nokia Theatre on World AIDS Day 12.01.09. Keep a Child Alive is a non profit organization founded by Leigh [...]
Over the weekend, Rod 2.0 updated the growing international backlash against Uganda’s latest and most extreme, anti-gay proposal: The proposed offense of “aggravated homosexuality” where an HIV-positive gay men has sex with another man. The penalty would be death. The prime ministers of Britain and Canada have formally protested the proposal.
Last year, the small East African nation received some $287 million in funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Several members of Congress, including Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), want the Obama Administration to withhold funding for AIDS programs in Uganda unless legislators abandon the extreme legislation. Sorry but we don’t tell countries how to legislate, PEPFAR Chief Coordinator Eric Goosby tells Newsweek.
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The short answer: No. Over the weekend, Rod 2.0 updated the growing international backlash against Uganda’s latest and most extreme, anti-gay proposal: The proposed offense of “aggravated homosexuality” where an HIV-positive gay men has sex with another man. The penalty would be death. The prime ministers of Britain and Canada have formally protested the proposal. [...]
Uganda is in the spotlight over two proposed laws which activists say will hold back the fight against HIV/Aids and violate human rights. In a letter dated October 30, to President Museveni, the chairperson of the Champions for an HIV-free Generation (an African elder statesmen’s forum) and former president of Botswana, Festus Mogae, wrote that the draft HIV/Aids Prevention and Control Bill 2008 and the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill could have a chilling effect on HIV/Aids prevention efforts.
Mogae’s message
“Your Excellency, we respectfully express our concern at the provisions referenced in these two Bills and fear that passage of such legislation, which deviates from international best practice and recommendations, could lead to increased stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/Aids and the groups most vulnerable to the epidemic,” Mr Mogae wrote.
In the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Mr Mogae’s organisation is particularly concerned about a proposal that would see a person convicted of the offence of homosexuality imprisoned for life and a death penalty imposed for those having gay sex with anyone under the age of 18, or when the accused is HIV-positive.
Ndorwa West MP David Bahati who introduced the Bill, has defended it saying the proposed law is intended to protect future generations. “Homosexuality is not a human right. It is a foreign behaviour imported and promoted by people using the poverty in our country to expound bad behaviour. We are determined to protect what is right for Uganda and not what is convenient for some people,” Mr Bahati said.
Uganda is in the spotlight over two proposed laws which activists say will hold back the fight against HIV/Aids and violate human rights. In a letter dated October 30, to President Museveni, the chairperson of the Champions for an HIV-free Generation (an African elder statesmen’s forum) and former president of Botswana, Festus Mogae, wrote that [...]
