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Source: Lives in Focus - August 29, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: admin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

IV drug abuse blamed for rising HIV infection rate in parts of IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CHENNAI, INDIA–David, 37, injects heroin daily–a schedule that has never varied for the past 15 years. Despite perpetually running short on cash to buy his fix, he has never been desperate enough, he says, to share needles. click image for audio slideshow “I know how HIV goes from one body to another,” David says. “I’ve seen many friends get sick and die like that.” Still, David admits that when he finally faces the dire choice between buying a new needle or heroin, his addiction will overcome his fear of HIV. David remains HIV negative but his dependence on heroin puts hi...
Source: Lives in Focus - August 29, 2008 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: sandeep.junnarkar Tags: Audio Photographs Source Type: blogs

ARV production is an Indian government responsibilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Human Rights Watch recently invited Lives in Focus to collaborate on a Web log in conjunction with the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada from Aug. 13-18. One of the speakers, Anand Grover, the co-founder of the Mumbai Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, delivered a speech on the second day of the conference titled “Human rights and Social Vulnerabilities,” in which he expressed concern about the availability of inexpensive generic drugs in five to ten years with India’s agreement to comply with the Agreement on Trade -Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) regarding produ...
Source: Lives in Focus - August 15, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Audio Source Type: blogs

Making a big decisionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Troy Cunningham Troy Cunningham did not intend to spend too much energy in his temporary job as an HIV/AIDS awareness counselor in the late 90s. He had taken one year off to study for his medical entrance exams and was told this job entailed light work and plenty of time to study. He brought his books with him, but what he saw grabbed his full attention. Back in medical school, he independently studied what he could about HIV/AIDS because there were no official courses on the disease. Now at 35, he heads the medical staff at the Freedom Foundation in Hyderabad and helps the center make its most critical decision. Li...
Source: Lives in Focus - July 23, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Audio Source Type: blogs

Making a big decisionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Troy Cunningham Troy Cunningham did not intend to spend too much energy in his temporary job as an HIV/AIDS awareness counselor in the late 90s. He had taken one year off to study for his medical entrance exams and was told this job entailed light work and plenty of time to study. He brought his books with him, but what he saw grabbed his full attention. Back in medical school, he independently studied what he could about HIV/AIDS because there were no official courses on the disease. Now at 35, he heads the medical staff at the Freedom Foundation in Hyderabad and helps the center make its most critical decision. L...
Source: Lives in Focus - July 23, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Junnarkar Tags: Audio Source Type: blogs

HIV contaminated bloodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
click image for video Raj Shekhar was 30-years-old when he needed a blood transfusion after an accident. That transfusion, more than the accident itself, changed his life unexpectedly. Nearly a year later, he tested HIV positive when he was hospitalized after experiencing massive chest pains. Instead of being admitted to the operating room, he says, his doctor refused to perform the required surgery. His wife abandoned him soon after. Raj is among the approximately five to ten percent of the global HIV+ population that was infected through contaminated blood five years ago. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated ...
Source: Lives in Focus - June 16, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Video Source Type: blogs

What did marriage bring me?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Shabana Shabana, 20, realized she was HIV+ after her husband’s health began rapidly deteriorating. A Muslim woman, she now serves as a counselor trying to educate those in her community about the dangers of HIV/AIDS and how it spreads. Lives in Focus has profiled her in a video interview and talked to her mother about how she handled her daughter’s situation. But perhaps the most poignant glimpse into Shabana’s delicate psyche came at the end of the interview when she asked if she could pose a question. Listen to her in Hindi. With English voiceovers. Related Previous Postings: A mother’s love (Podc...
Source: Lives in Focus - June 7, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Audio Source Type: blogs

The Age of AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
click for video preview Lives in Focus editors highly recommend a new documentary titled “The Age of AIDS” which is produced by Frontline, one of the world’s best television news magazine programs. The four-hour documentary is a must-see if you want a deeper understanding of this disease. The program describes itself thus: After 25 years of political denial, social stigma, scientific breakthroughs, bitter policy battles and inadequate prevention campaigns, HIV/AIDS continues to spread rapidly throughout much of the world. Through interviews with AIDS researchers, world leaders, activists, and patients, FRONTLINE i...
Source: Lives in Focus - May 31, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Video Source Type: blogs

Working in the Middle East and HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nirmala Kumari worked as a domestic worker in the Middle East for nearly ten years. She earned a good salary—especially when compared to Indian standards for the same work. She wired most of her earnings to her husband every month to help care for their two sons and saved some for a ticket back to India every two years. click image for audio slideshow While she was thousands of miles away for those long years, her husband visited prostitutes using the very money Nirmala sent home. Nirmala is one of hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women who work in the Gulf as menial laborers doing the jobs native Arabs r...
Source: Lives in Focus - May 26, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Audio Source Type: blogs

Elderly mothers bear AIDS burdenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In countries with a high prevalence of AIDS, the epidemic decimates the young to middle-aged adult population—the backbone of the labor that supports both the national economy and the family. click image for slideshow In the absence of men and women of working-age, older relatives often resume the burden of being breadwinners and caretakers. More often than not, this task falls on elderly women. A study published in 2002 by HelpAge International, a U.K.-based non-profit that champions older people worldwide, noted the following: One outcome in countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence is an increase in the number ...
Source: Lives in Focus - April 25, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Photographs Source Type: blogs

Elderly mothers bear AIDS burdenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In countries with a high prevalence of AIDS, the epidemic decimates the young to middle-aged adult population—the backbone of the labor that supports both the national economy and the family. Slideshow: Elderly Mother Bears AIDS Burden In the absence of men and women of working-age, older relatives often resume the burden of being breadwinners and caretakers. More often than not, this task falls on elderly women. A study published in 2002 by HelpAge International, a U.K.-based non-profit that champions older people worldwide, noted the following: One outcome in countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence is an incre...
Source: Lives in Focus - April 25, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Junnarkar Tags: Photographs Source Type: blogs

Despite setbacks, Bikhshapati is full of lifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
click image for video When I first asked Bikhshapati his age, he didn’t understand my question. I asked again, “Are you five? Six?” He answered in English but seeing the confusion on my face, he reached down and scrawled the number “12″ in the sand. I was shocked. For a moment I suspected he wrote the wrong number. His doctor told me later that Bikhshapati looks half his age because of the ravages of HIV. Although he is on anti-retro viral drugs, his body constantly struggles against the virus. On many occasions over the past few years, he has fallen deathly ill. He has missed school so oft...
Source: Lives in Focus - April 18, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Video Source Type: blogs

A glimmer of hope: HIV infection drop in South IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. K. Venu, chief of Hyderabad’s Government General Chest Hospital, treats an unrelenting stream of patients who come to the hospital for Tuberculosis treatment only to find that they have AIDS. In India, TB is the most lethal opportunistic infection preying on those weakened by AIDS. click image for video Despite the human toll he witnessed over the past decade, Dr. Venu remains optimistic about controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS. He might have reason to be hopeful. A study published March 30, 2006 in the British medical journal, The Lancet, provides a glimmer of hope. The research, conducted by a joint In...
Source: Lives in Focus - April 6, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Sandeep Tags: Video Source Type: blogs