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Jharkhand HIV cases: People's Health Organisation calls for harsh penalties on blood, organ trafficking

November 03, 2025 8:41 pm

Recently, six children with thalassemia contracted HIV after blood transfusions at a government run hospital in Jharkhand.

Punjab: In just over 3 years, HIV positive cases jump 2-and-a-half times; Health Minister Balbir Singh says ‘not alarming’

March 31, 2023 7:26 am

Among the new cases 1,847 are women, 19 transgenders while 88 HIV patients are less than 15 years of age. The data put out by Punjab State Aids Control Society on its website has only figures upto 2019-20.

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Woman dies after private clinic ‘wrongly’ diagnoses her as HIV positive

August 28, 2019 5:56 pm

Raising the issue, MLA Mohan Lal Brakta demanded strict action against the private clinic situated in the Rohru subdivision in Shimla district. He also sought adequate compensation for the 22-year-old woman's family.

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Age-related illness risk for people living with HIV, says study

August 17, 2019 12:52 pm

Although the number of people contracting HIV is declining, approximately 1.8 million people are infected every year and HIV remains one of the world's major health issues.

40,855 HIV positive cases in Manipur

July 19, 2014 2:04 pm

This was in spite of incurring an expenditure of Rs 43.39 crore for implementation of Targeted Intervention (TI) programme,

HIV transmission rate has declined in last few yrs

November 26, 2013 3:34 am

District health authorities say the rate dropped from 9.7 per cent in 2007-08 to 4.5 per cent in 2012-13

Rise in number of sex workers leaving brothels hits HIV programmes

July 01, 2012 10:49 am

According to govt statistics,there are an 23.9 lakh people living with HIV/AIDS in 2009.

CII conference on HIV-AIDS focuses on corporate funding to increase scale of programmes

March 03, 2012 3:00 am

Punjab has 56,928 HIV cases,and counting. The state is particularly vulnerable with regard to injecting drug users.

HIV cases in armed forces down to half in 5 yrs

December 07, 2011 2:01 am

Five years ago,HIV was one of the 20 top causes of death in the armed forces,seventh leading cause of death in the Army and the second most prevalent reason of death in the Navy.

Suburbs get 3 ART centres for HIV patients

October 18, 2011 12:13 am

Starting this November,city suburbs will be better equipped to handle HIV cases as three new Anti-Retroviral Therapy centres will be open to the public.