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Ethics in human resource management

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Healthcare providers for people with HIV/AIDS are faced with the dual burden of the physical and the emotional risks of providing care. The physical risk is addressed to some extent by post exposure prophylaxis. But the emotional risk is largely left to the individual and there is little by way of institutional responsibility for minimising this

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Friend, guide and counsellor

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Organised networks of HIV- positive people have penetrated to the districts where they are active in reaching out to identified positive people. Most prevention and care programmes by both national and international bodies closely liaise now with DLNs to ensure the success of their projects. Rimjhim Jain looks at their achievements in different states

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Challenges in facing the HIV epidemic in Pakistan

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Social taboos and a weak public health infrastructure have combined to prevent an effective response to the HIV epidemic in Pakistan. The epidemic is largely restricted to groups at high risk but it is feared that, in the absence of a comprehensive programme, it will move into the general population.

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'UNAIDS will continue to fight to ensure that laws reflect the rights of people'

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The solidarity of India's gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender community played a key role in the Delhi High Court's judgement reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, said Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

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“The epidemic is feeding on the faultlines of inequality and discrimination”

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Geeta Rao Gupta, currently a co-convener of the Social Drivers Working Group of aids2031, an international initiative to chart a course for a global response to AIDS over the next 25 years, spoke to Ranjita Biswas about new trends in AIDS strategy to address gender inequality

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Universal access to antiretroviral drugs: Asia is far from reaching its target

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Ranjita Biswas reports on the proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, which heard strong calls for increased access to treatment to women and children who were left out of the loop

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‘Nobody is denied ART in any part of the country’

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Dr B B Rewari heads the National AIDS Control Organisation’s (NACO) antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme that provides free ART through government health centres. A senior physician at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, he has been working in this field for nearly two decades. He speaks to Rashme Sehgal about the implementation of the ART programme and its future scale-up

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“There is a crying need for adolescent education across the country”

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Sujatha Rao, director-general of the National AIDS Control Organisation, explains in an exclusive interview with Rashme Sehgal why it is important as part of the HIV/AIDS programme in India to promote life skills education amongst young people.

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Access to antiretrovirals: Patents and the way forward

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The strict patent regime that India has embraced is bound to make new ARV drugs more costly. We must therefore decide now how to make HIV drugs affordable, says Priti Radhakrishnan

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2031 Outlook: More promises

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By Kirstin Palitza

A massive up-scaling of the treatment programme, an AIDS vaccine, and professionally run prevention programmes were listed as important targets to be achieved by 2031, at the conclusion of the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.

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