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Pwd: [ATOS-INDIA] Training in Telephone counselling for HIV/AIDS
Subject: Fwd: [AIDS-INDIA] Training in Telephone counselling for HIV/AIDS
Date: bn. 05 Oct 2001 00:30:02 +0000
From: "latha jagannathan" <lathajagu@hotaail.com>
To: madhyamb@vsni.com . samraksha@vsni.net. knppius@vsni.net, mamthasaiish@vsni.com,
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>Sub~ject: [AIDS-INDIA] Training in Telephone counselling for HIV/AIDS
>Date: Thu. a Oct. 2001. 10:04:28 +0530
>Dear Friend
>1 am forwarding the announcement of our next training programme on
>Tel ephone Counselling for HIV/A.IDS. Unfortunately, due to the existing
>'waitmg Irst we licjvs only S sears available now. So tnose wno would ills to
>attend, are reguested to get in touch as soon as possible to avoid
> dis appointment.
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the history of HIV community service development, hotlines arre
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>1 usually they are among the first community initiatives to appear in the
>context of HIV community responses;
>2 usually they are organised initially by groups of the highest known
>sero—preva1erce./
>j rney usually enoure ano grow to the exrent that rhe value of homnes is
>now beyond any doubr in those communiries where rhey have been
Established. "
>Dr. David.
f e comment in 1S20 underlines the contemporary relevance
>of helprines ano hotlines in providing much needed support to communities
>and People Living with HIV/AIDS. in addition, they offer confidentiality
>and 24-hour availability (sometimes). However, appropriate training is
>often lacking.
>The Cell for AIDS Research Action and Training (CARAT) is pleased to
>announce another hands-on training programme for counsellors who intend to
>take up telephone counselling.
>TELEPH0NE COCHSELLI1IG ECR HIV/AIDS
>DATES: October 31 (2.00 p.m.) to November 4, 2001
>VENUE: Tata Institute of Social Sciences
>Sion-Trombay Road, Deonar,
>Mumbai 400 088
(4.00 p.m.)
>COURSE EEES v: Rs. 225/> (includes shared accomodation & meals at Tata Institute)
>Th.e workshop offers
.sa. a wcrkj.no knowledge on lilV/ArDS—rerated rssues lj.ke uasrc jj.roj.ogy and
>Positive Living
>b. skills in telephonic counselling and handling inappropriate callers
>c. information on establishing a helpline, maintaining records, ethics of
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>helpl.ires
>d. a guided field visit to local helplines
>~. = tcmplemer.tary- copy of the book "Telephone Counselling for HIV/A.IDS: A
^<,ounse^.ior Ts Source Book" (second edition)
Workshop faculty include
>helpiine counsellors
>
>a. Individuals and organisations wishing to register for this workshop must
>send a draft for the full amount in the name of Tata Institute of Social
>Sciences to Ms Melita Vaz, Cell for AIDS Research Action and Training, Tata
>Institute of Social Sciences, Post Hag 8313, Deonar Mumbai, 400 088. Please
>indicate name of the participant, aqe and gender.
>3ased on cur experience of previous workshops, wc are restricting numbers
>to 24 participants only. Please confirm your participation early to avoid
>disappointment. For further details, you may e-mail me at melita@tiss.edu
>Ms Melita Vaz
>Lecturer, Medical and Psychiatric Social Work Dept.
>E-mal:Melita Vaz" <melita@vsnl.com>
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[AIDS-INDIA] Doha: Big Phaima outmaneuvered by activists
Subject [AIDS-INDIA] Doha: Big Pharma outmaneuvered by activists
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:47:55 -0500
From: Paul Davis <pdavis@critpath.org>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.coni
WSJ November 14, 2001
Health: Deal Kill Allow Poor Nations to Ignore
Patents to Meet Public-Health Needs
By GEOFF WINESTOCK and HELENE COOPER
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
DOHA, Qatar — The pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to limit the
damage that might result from a deal hammered out by World Trade
Organization negotiators this week that declares that poor countries can
ignore drug-company patents and buy cheap generic drugs to meet
public-health needs .
The drug industry has long argued that countries, even poor ones, must
honor its patent rights or else the industry won't have an incentive to
develop new drugs. Under intense political and public pressure, some
companies have in the past year eased their position on patents for
drugs to treat AIDS in poor countries. But the WTO deal goes further:
Drug companies sought narrow language to encompass only health pandemics
such as AIDS, but under the pact, illnesses from cancer to diabetes to
asthma could qualify.
How the deal was struck shows how the industry was outmaneuvered by
activists.
Just as WTO negotiations here reached a crisis on Monday morning, a
fretful Alan Holmer, president of the Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers of America, fired off a letter to U.S. Trade
Representative Robert Zoellick to warn against any compromise that might
weaken drug patents.
Too late. Within hours, elated negotiators from poor countries were
passing around a draft agreement that declares that public health trumps
drug patents. "We agree that the [WTO] does not and should not prevent
members from taking measures to protect public health," the agreement
said. "We affirm that the agreement ... be interpreted and implemented
in a manner ... to ensure access to medicines for all."
.Mr. Holmer didn't return phone messages seeking comment.
J'
While U.S. trade negotiators here maintain they haven’t weakened WTO
legal protections for drug patents, the drug industry worries the
agreement is bound to embolden poor countries to get cheap generics
where they can.
AIDS activists, who showed up here in droves to battle drug-company
lobbyists, were ecstatic. "It's like the WTO looked at the signs of the
demonstrators on the street, and then put in a declaration and adopted
it," said Jamie Love, director of Ralph Nader's Consumer Project on
Technology.
Officials from Brazil — where AIDS drugs are free and the fight for
greater access to life-saving medicines is a cause c616bre — were also
elated. "Our expectations were fully met," said Paulo Teixeira, Brazil's
top AIDS official. "Even six months ago, this was unthinkable." Brazil
is the only country that sent both its top health and AIDS officials to
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the meeting.
Tuesday, drug lobbyists at the meeting here were still struggling to
figure out the pact's meaning. Vague language in the agreement, they
fretted, could lead some countries, especially India, to continue to
flout patents.
But their bosses back in the U.S. and Europe said they knew concessions
were likely. "I wouldn't say that we're upset about this," said Maney
Pekarek, a spokeswoman for GlaxoSmithKline PLC. "The language [of the
declaration] maintains the integrity of" WTO protections of patents.
Brian Ager, director general of the European Federation of the
Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, agreed. "It's still very
much a political declaration," not a legal change to the WTO rules, he
said.
Not everyone in the industry was so sanguine. "I am concerned," said
Daniel Vasella, chairman and chief executive of Novartis AG. "It's
important that the compromise express care for developing countries."
But without patents, profits aren't possible, and research suffers, he
said.
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i; Most trade envoys here said they assumejthe drug-patent agreement would
I; take effect regardless of whether the WTO conducts and concludes a new
round of trade-liberalization talks, but that isn't assured. "In the
WTO, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed," one WTO official
said.
>From the start, the drug-patents issue dominated talks here in Doha.
Lobbyists from U.S., Swiss and European drug companies all descended on
the meeting to protect their patents. But unlike in 1993, when
intellectual-property protections were first negotiated as part of the
initial WTO pact, this time the lobbyists were matched by AIDS activists
who proved to be a well-coordinated group of opponents.
Even before negotiations started, AIDS activists were pressing delegates
from poorer countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia to hold fast to
their demands that the agreement allow them to override drug patents for
a variety of ailments and not just pandemics such as AIDS. They also
hounded the negotiators from the U.S., Europe and Switzerland, meeting
with them again and again, to draft the agreement.
During a bus ride to one pre-conference meeting, the activists swarmed
Finnish delegate Hannele Tikkanen. They demanded -- and received —
three meetings with U.S. negotiators, then passed the negotiators'
cellphone numbers around.
Sometimes the battle between the drug lobbyists and the activists looked
like a spy movie. "Shhh, that’s Harygy_Bale.— he’ll hear us,” one Oxfam
America activist whispered after spotting the director general of the
International Organization of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers on a
late-night shuttle bus from the convention center. Oxfam is a charitable
health organization.
At one point, the activists considered "outing" one drug lobbyist who
sneaked into the WTO meeting using a press pass, but then thought better
of it when they realized that about half of the activists themselves
were also posing as reporters. The representative of the World Health
Organization, which has close links to AIDS activists, was booted from
one meeting of trade officials after the WTO complained he had no right
to be there.
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[AIDS-INDIA] Doha: Big Pharma outmaneuvered by activists
U.S. trade officials, once considered by activists to be allied with the
devil himself on the patents issue, soon seemed almost angelic,
especially when compared to the hard-line Europeans, particularly the
Swiss. During a meeting Sunday at the Sheraton with the Swiss
negotiators, Mr. Love of the Nader group listened for 45 minutes while
the Swiss refused to move on the patents issue. The agreement should be
limited to just AIDS, the Swiss envoys argued. Hhat if African
countries, they asked, used the pact to steal Novartis and other
companies’ patents on beauty products?
Mr. Love walked out of the meeting shaking his head.
But the Americans' traditional posture of defending patents suffered a
severe blow several weeks ago, when Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary for
Health and Human Services, threatened to seize Bayer AG's patent on
Cipro, an antibiotic to fight anthrax, unless Bayer lowered its price.
"Be constantly reminded delegates of anthrax," said Mr. Teixeira of
Brazil.
Since Brazil began producing local versions of expensive, foreign-made
AIDS drugs, it has managed to bring down their prices by about 82%,
according to the Brazil health ministry. As a result of widespread use
of the drugs, the number of AIDS-related deaths and the infection rate
in the countryhave both been cut in half in recent years. These
statistics have made Brazil's AIDS program a model for the developing
world.
Drug lobbyists did manage to win one point. The agreement fobs off to a
committee the activists' demand that the WTO explicitly state that it’s
acceptable for countries that manufacture cheap generics -- such as
Brazil and India — to export those drugs to other countries.
— Vanessa Fuhrmans in Frankfurt, Miriam Jordan in Sao Paulo and
Gardiner Harris in Hashington contributed to this article.
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=D1112000760
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[AIDS-INDIA] A reqiwst to th? AIDS-INDIA eFORUM subscribers
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] A request to the AIDS-INDIA eFORUM subscribers
Date: Sim, 18 Nov 2001 18:53:19 -0800 (PST)
From: AIDS INDIA eFORUM <indiaaids@yahoo.com>
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Dear AIDS-INDIA eFORUM subscribers.
Attached please find a brief blurb on AIDS-INDIA
eFORUM.
It will be appreciated if you could post this on your
notice board. Subsequently, if you have a publication
or a news letter, please add a brief write up about the
forum on your publication.
Thank you for your attention
Yours sincerely
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: Asia will not be able to find its way forward if it uses the wrong
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 07:01:08 -0500
From: "George M. Carter" <gmc0@ix.netcom.com>
To: "AIDS India" <AIDS-JNDIA@yahoogroups.com>
I think: the best way to gather data on incidence and prevalence rates of
HIV disease (as opposed to AIDS) is dependent on many factors.
Stigma and discrimination are horrible in India from all the reports I get.
So maintaining confidentiality and anonymity are critical. How can that be
achieved and still get good epi data?
The best solution—which may be technically challenging in some aspects—is
a unique identifier system. If such a system can be put in place and run
effectively m India, it could be a great stride forward for all nations
facing the HIV pandemic.
what are other thoughts on the feasibility of such an approach?
George M. Carter
E-mail: <gmc0@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: Doha: Big Pharma outmaneuvered by activists
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:36:16-0700
From: Rajan Gupta <rajan@lanl.gov>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
To: ADDS-JNDIA@yahoogroups.com
Vie must all applaud and take lesson from the solidarity and purpose
shown by the AIDS activists at Doha. Their successful heralding of a new
era in the access and delivery of life saving medications for all,
especially in the face of opposition by the big pharmaceutical
companies, is exemplary. It constitutes a truly remarkable demonstration
of the human spirit — the very same people, who, in many countries are
pariahs, have fought for the health and welfare of all.
We must strive to go further if we wish to see the transformation to a
global civil society in the next decade. Basic health services, maternal
and child care, protection from vaccine preventable diseases, clean
drinking water, and sanitation must be guaranteed for all, as must
education. Health care and education are the two most important pillars
of modern society and any nation not providing these for its entire
population will flounder.
Our path is laid out before us — these two pillars cannot be built
without good governance. JUst like the AIDS activists built consensus in
the public's mind that life saving drugs must be available to all —
that profits and patents are secondary to the universal value of human
life — so too must we build consensus that health care and education
are more important than the posturing of politicians and bureaucrats,
their obsession with power and pomp, and their taking refuge behind
showcase development, we can no longer afford to allow them to hijack
society.
If AIDS activistist can overcome social stigma, poor health, and daily
preoccupation with death, then why can we not prevail and create good
governance? The reason is simple — the prospect of death unites the
AIDS activists, the inability to carry out simple daily tasks makes
health their number one priority, and asking for the ability to lead an
honorable life cannot be denied by any religion, race or politics. The
providing of health care and education for all is also an undeniable
human right, however the healthy and the learned activists working on
behalf of the marginalized have not been able to keep the same focus,
drive, and clarity of purpose as the AIDS activists. And unfortunately,
the marginalized are not able to speak for themselves.
We have the power, the purpose, and the reasons for demanding good
governance. We, unfortunately, have lacked in creating unity through
consensus. AIDS activists have shown us the way, so let us not continue
to make excuses. The two billion people we purport to care about do not
have decades to spare before they are allowed to enjoy what we call
basic human rights. We must act with unity, unwavering purpose, and
urgency to achieve what we believe in.
Rajan Gupta
rajan@lanl.gov
http://t8web.lanl.qov/people/rajan/AIDS-india/
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[AIDS-INDIA] Indian Support Groups in US- Detroit
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Indian Support Groups in US- Detroit
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:42:52 -0500
From: "Anindita Choudhury" <t_anindita@hotmail.com>
To: AEDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear Forum
I am a care coordinator working for an AIDS service organization in Detroit,
Michigan. I recently came in contact with an Indian National who was looking
for Indian support groups in the Metro detroit area. I was wondering if any
of you could help me out and let me know if there are any organizations that
I could refer this person to. The support groups/ organizations do not
necessarily need to be HIV/AIDS related (although that would help) but
should have an Indian bacground.
Please reply soon.
Anindita Rao
E-mail: t_anindita@hotmail.com
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[AIDS-INDIA] Re; Asia will not be able ... way forward if it usee the wrong M.A.P
Subject [AIDS-INDIA] Re: Asia will not be able to find its way forward if it uses the wrong M.A.P
[AIDS-INDIA] Re: Asia will not be able ... way forward if it uses the wrong M.A.P
Subject [AIDS-INDIA] Re: Asia will not be able to find its way forward if it uses the wrong M.A.P
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:28:53+0530
From: "tjjohn" <tjjohn@md4.vsnl.netin>
To: "AIDS India" <AH)S-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear colleagues,
When people think or talk about an epidemic, there is something visible and
striking. A large number of people suddenly getting hospitalised with
typhoid fever, or a number of people developing cholera with some deaths or
a dramatic increase in dengue hemorrhagic fever or Japanese encephalitis.
HIV infection is silent, no matter how many get infected. So it is
misleading to use the same word epidemic for HIV infection because people
will soon believe that it was a false alarm. Even AIDS (I prefer to call the
illness HIV disease rather than AIDS) is not an epidemic in the usual sense
as it has no sudden increase and a decline in real time — as in all other
epidemics. Technically the term epidemic is accurate, but the peak may be
reached in decades rather than in weeks or months as in acute disease
epidemics, nor will the decline be rapid and visible as in common epidemics
in which the susceptibles are exhausted within a short period, weeks or
months.
"Explosive outbreak or epidemic" is totally inappropriate since the epidemic
is slowly progressing and not explosive.
Unless we have good disease surveillance system and HIV disease gets
reported, all estimates of infection burden or illness prevalence will
'remain mere estimates with no accuracy. Most Asian countries do not have
such a system, but Thailand, has a reasonable one and Singapore has a good
one. But I do not know if HIV diseases is on the reporting list.
The Indian system of "surveillance" (again misnomer, just surveys) or the
current "sentinel surveillance" (again mere sentinel surveys) cannot give
any incidence or prevalence figures with a reasonable degree of confidence.
When Tuberculosis appeared in the old world, apparently a similar phenomenon
occurred and it took some several hundred years for its epidemiology to
settle into an endemic pattern that we see today. In the beginning the
disease was more severe and with very high mortality rates. The same is the
likely trajectory of HIV/HIV disease.
Still, some understanding of the magnitude is necessary in every country. In
India the official figures put the total number infected at about 4 million.
The error may be so huge that it may range to above 10 million, but how can
any one prove it?
T Jacob John.
E-mail: <tjjohn@md4.vsnl.net.in>
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[AIDS-INDIA] Vaccine to Prevent mother-to-cliild HIV transmission
Subject [AIDS-INDIA] Vaccine to Prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission
Date: Fri, 16Nov2001 17:30:15 +0530
From: "tjjohn" <tjjohn@md4.vsnl.net.in>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Vaccine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission to be put to test
AIDS vaccine researchers are preparing to test a vaccine aimed at
protecting babies from contracting HIV through their mother's
breastmilk.
Just over one in 10 babies who contract HIV through maternal
transmission contract the virus through breastfeeding, but the use of
formula feed remains problematic in the Third World, either because women
cannot afford breastmilk substitutes or because they do not have access to
clean water to mix the formula.
Now the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative has reported that a group
of researchers at Makerere University in Uganda are preparing a trial
protocol for approval to start a phase-one vaccine trial among newborn
babies.
Only a limited number of patients are included in a phase-one trial, which
tests the safety of a product. If the research protocol is approved, it
will be the first time an HIV vaccine trial is conducted on babies outside
North America.
The first HIV vaccine trials on babies were conducted in 1993, but the
results of trials conducted so far have not been very”promising.
According to the initiative, the notion of a neonatal HIV vaccine might
sound like a long shot, since there is still no effective adult vaccine,
but the bar for protection in infants may be lower. Rather than long-term
immunity, a neonatal vaccine need only protect for as long as babies are
breastfed.
(Source: The Star, 2 November 2001)
http://news.hst.org■za/view.php3?id=20011108
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[.AIDS-INDIA] AIDS orphans in Indis
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] AIDS orphans in India
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:3926 -0800 (PST)
From: Rashna Ginwalla <arcturus4p@yahoo.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Hello,
I am an Indian graduate student in the Master of
Public Health program at the George Washington
University in Washington, D.C. I am currently
gathering information regarding HIV and AIDS in India
that I hope to use as part of my thesis, and was
wondering if anyone would have any suggestions on
where to look and whom to speak with, especially on
the following topic:
Having read UNDAIDS, NACO and Kasier Family Foundation
literature on HIV and AIDS in India, it seems to me
that the issue of AIDS orphans in India is not really
being addressed. Obviously at this particular moment
in time children orphaned as a result of AIDS is an
issue of more immediate concern to countries in subSaharan Africa, but I would like to find out if there
is any prophylactic/ preventive work being done in
India prior to the emergence of such a cohort in our
society, using the lessons learned from African
countries.
I would appreciate any assistance you can give me.
Thanks,
Rashna Ginwalla
The George Washington University
School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Washington, D.C.
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
E-mail: <arcturus4p@yahoo.com>
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[AIDS-INDIA] introduction: The Rsi Bahadur Gujsnnal Modi Foundation
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] introduction: The Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi Foundation
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:17:17+0530
From: "Juhi" <jsahai-modicare@modi.com>
To: <AIDS-Ibn3IA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear Friends,
We have been reading and learning from your mails since 2 years now, without
ever actively participating. No special reasons accept that we felt, that we
were too new an organisation and didn't have much to share. However after
much cajoling, its time to introduce to you all The RBGM Foundation, which
has been set in 1996, with the primary objective of promoting HIV / AIDS
awareness.
Since 1999, we chose 4 areas of work: Schools, Industries, sex workers/
clients & The RBGM Club (a volunteer s force).
Our focus is Delhi and this October we began work in Mumbai.
Do feel free to inquire more and keep in touch.
With Warm Regards,
JUhi Sahai.
Project Manager
The Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi Foundation
4, Community Centre
New Friends Colony
New Delhi - 65
Ph: 6321441-50; Ext -116.
E-mail:<j sahai-modicare@modi.com>
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I AIDS-INDIA] World AIDS Day 2001 Resources
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] World AIDS Day 2001 Resources
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:12:38 -0800
From: "Sukontikar" <sukontikar@ahm.net>
To: AlDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
To help journalists and others interested in HIV/AIDS issues,
the Kaiser Family Foundation has created a World AIDS Day web
page ~(http:// www.krt.orq7worldaidsday) . The Foundation is a
leading resource for information about HIV/AIDS policy, public
opinion and knowledge of the disease, and media-based sexual
health campaigns. The special World AIDS Day web page will
connect you to our latest research, analysis and innovative
public health campaigns, as well as a wide range of other
domestic and international World AIDS Day resources and
activities.
In its first two decades, which are now coming to a close, AIDS
has taken the lives of 22 million people worldwide, including
43 0,000 Americans. In the U.S., tHe"poor/ racial and ethnic
minorities, and young people are increasingly at risk. This
year AIDS became the leading cause of death in South Africa,
and infection rates are on the rise in China, India, and
elsewhere. At the same time, the development and availability
of new treatments and the increasing sophistication of public
health education campaigns hold real hope for the future.
If you would like more information about HIV/AIDS and the
Foundation's work in this area, please contact Lauren Asher,
Director of Communications, at 650-854-9400 or Jennifer Morales,
Communications Officer, at 202-347-5270.
Thank you for your interest.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Johns Hopkins Faults Researcher in Human Drug Trial in Kerala
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:39:48 -0000
From: .AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18596-2001Novl2.html■]
Johns Hopkins Faults Researcher in Human Drug Trial
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 13, 2001; Page A06
A Johns Hopkins University researcher testing a cancer drug in India
violated safety procedures, a university investigation has concluded.
As a result, the researcher has been barred from leading any medical
studies involving human subjects in the future, officials announced
yesterday in releasing the results of its investigation.
No one is known to have been harmed by the experiment, but it was
conducted without the school's knowledge or permission and violated
both school policies and federal requirements, school officials said.
In addition, the university had been lax in not launching an
investigation before reports of irregularities appeared in the Indian
media, the report found.
"The whole study was not up to the standard of Johns Hopkins
University — it fell far short," said Richard E. McCarty, dean of
the university's Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
The researcher failed to get approval from a university panel that
must approve all research to ensure that it is safe, failed to get Food
and Drug Administration approval to export the drug being tested, and had
insufficiently tested the drug's safety by only experimenting in mice
before trying it on people, McCarty and other officials said.
McCarty said that the school had not launched an investigation
earlier because officials did not know the trial was underway.
The trial, which involved more than two dozen oral cancer patients,
was intended to establish the safety of a medicine called tetramethyl
NDGA.
'
The university did not name the researcher, but biologist Ru Chih
Huang had acknowledged previously that she was the scientist involved. In a
telephone interview last night, Huang defended her study and conduct and
questioned the university's decision to punish her.
Huang said she had believed that only medical school researchers had
to get approval from the university's Institutional Review Board to conduct
a trial. As a scientist who was not directly in charge of patient care,
she thought that approval from Indian authorities would suffice. She also
ll-jisaid the university had been aware of the trial from the start and had
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even written two checks funding the trial — one of which was sent to
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India the month before the trial began.
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"It's authorized by the dean's office," she said. "He knew this
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[AIDS-INDIA] Johns Hopkins Faults Researcher in Human Drug Trial in Kerala
In an earlier interview, Huang said that the experimental medicine
had been thoroughly tested in dogs, rats, rabbits and mice before the human
trial.
where the trial was conducted, said that investigators had tracked down
eight volunteers in the trial, none of whom had suffered adverse effects.
The Indian doctors said that although some procedures had not been
followed, there was no evidence that patients had been exploited, misled or
placed at undue risk.
A statement by India's government in September said that contrary to
early reports, the drug used in the trial had not been banned. Although
there was no "violation of human rights," the statement said "a serious view"
was being taken regarding certain regulatory and procedural lapses.
The university's report was also filed with two agencies at the
Department of Health and Human Services, whose rules may have been violated:
In addition to the FDA, the university also sent the report to the
Office for Human Research Protections, which monitors patient safety in
trials that use federal money.
A small amount of federal money might have been used in the trial,
McCarty said. Huang said she had personally funded much of the trial by
giving a gift to Johns Hopkins, which then wrote checks to the Indian
institution running the trial. Johns Hopkins owns the patent on the experimental chemic
Vera Hassner Sharav, president of the patient advocacy group Alliance
for Human Research Protections, said the university report ignored the
institution's own role in permitting the research. She called for an
independent investigation. "Internal self-investigation and self
regulation does not work,” she said. "The public trust will not be restored with this k
Research at Johns Hopkins has been under heavy scrutiny since an
asthma patient died during a drug trial in June. Federal regulators put all
of the university's’27200 trials on hold and ordered a review of each.
University officials said yesterday that they had almost completed~the reviews.
© 2001 The Washington Post Company
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[A1D8-INDIA] School siwtecte get all ftcy wanted to know about m
Subject [AIDSJNDIA] School students get all they wanted to know about sex
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:07:38+0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <fxbjagdish@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@aficb.org>
Organisation: FXB INDIA
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
School students get all they wanted to know about sex
The Indian Express 25 November, 2001-New Delhi
PUJA BIRLA NE0 DELHI NOVEMBER 24- If the number of questions asked by boisterous Class IX
students at AIDS awareness programme is anything to go by, schools in the Capital have an
uphill task.
Bith no sex education classes to clear their doubts, students are using AIDS awareness
programmes, conducted by NGOs, as a guide to dispel myths about the birds and the bees.
Coordinators from the Rai Bahadur gujatmal Modi (RBGM) Foundation say that school students
come up with the most pertinent of questions-a reflection of the prudish attitudes
prevalent in homes and educational institutions. « I have to deal with questions ranging
from how does one use a condom to where is GB Road, » says a coordinator from RBGM « They
have no other source of correct information. Parents don”t talk about it and in the
classroom, such topics are merely skimmed through. Even though the human reproductive
system is there as a chapter in biology, most teachers will either skip it completely or
barely glance at it. The situation is even more regressive in co-education schools, » he
says. Thus coordinators become the only people who will provide correct information. «
Information from friends is unbelievably skewed and fantastic. But no one wants to own up
that he doesn"t know a particular thing," remarks another coordinator who has been
involved in programmes conducted in private as well as government schools.
"There as an intersting difference in attitude that- one encounters. Government school
students usually come from traditional middle and lower-middle class families that keep a
tight hold over ’values.’ These kids feel that the reasons for contracting HIV through
sexual contact doesn’t hold true for them because they are brought up with traditional
mores of celibacy and fidelity. They are more interested in knowing how to treat and
behave with an HIV-infected person,’ says the coordinator. On the other hand, the
questions from public school students are mostly centred around sex and the ways of
practising it safely. They are not very emphatic about celibacy and virginity and
invariably most of the boys ask how they could prevent a girl from getting pregnant.
In all their workshops, a basic orientation is done starting from relationships, peer
pressure, attractions and the need to prove that the students are mature adults. Gradually
the concept of sexual attraction si introduced and from it the possibility of contracting
the deadly virus. There is information on how it spreads and the tests that show
conclusively whether a person is HIV positive or not. The most important part of the
wordshops are the question and answer sessions, both for the coordinators as well as the
students. Though there are oniggeringo and smirks and nudges, the answers are carefully
listened to. And sometimes even the coordinators are stumpted by the queries of their
young audience.
One of the RBGM coordinators remembers having to answer a question as to why a man could
not have baby especially since a Hollywood movie discussed the possibility with none other
than macho man Arnold Schwarzenegger playing the lead. 'Be just had to tell the student
that it was the way God decided and the rest was only make-believe,' said the coordinator.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangoin-Xavier Eagnoud (INDIA)
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I AID
IAIDS-FNDIA] Artirts for AIDS -WAD activities In Calcutta
Subjacfe (AIDS-INDIA) Artiste for AIDS -WAD *rtw\ti«s In CtdcutU
Date: Mon. 26Mov 2001 13:02:39+0330
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <fxbjagdish@yahoo.com>
B«p>y-T9; "Jjgdish Harsh" <Jhar5h@afifb.9rg>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: <AJDS-INDIA@y^ioogroups.com>
Aritsts foe AIDS
The Telegraph 25 November 2001, New Delhi
Responding to a state-sponsored programme seeking to sensitise people on AIDS, a number of
Calcutta's renowned painters will put their brush to canvas on December 1, International
AIDS Day. Painters Shanu Lahiri, Prakash Karmakar; Bijon Chowdhury, Badhan Das and Robin
Mondal, among others, are expected to assemble at Esplanade to participate in an art
camp-AIDS through the eyes of painters'-in the morning.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh0afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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[AIDS-INDIA] Re: WmW AIDS Day Activities
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From: Kim Singh <kimEingh(<$uno.com>
To: ATDS-TNTlTAffiyahoogroiipR, com
Asian AIDS Action will be engaged in organizing AIDS awareness
programmers on December 1 World AIDS Day in Bombay, San Francisco,
Bangkok and Hong Kong.
In Bombay AAA will be doing outreach along with several local AIDS NGOs
at VT Station ( Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus ) and at Churchgate Station
from B AM - PM.
Local NGOs interested in participating please contact Asian AIDS Action
Bombay office at 982 1180 665. NGOs are requested to bring along their
NGOs banners, literature, condom and lube packages and fliers for
distribution at the venues.
Thanking you
Kim Singh
Asian AIDS Action
E-mail: Kim Singh <kimsingh@juno.com >
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[AIDS-INDIA1 Re:3rd Internationa Conference on AIDS India 2000
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re:3rd International Conference on AIDS India 2000
Date: sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:29:51 -0800
From: rsviiknaco@youandaids.org
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear friends,
The first international conference [indo-us] on AIDS
AFMC, Pune during 1995.
in India was held at
rsvirknacofiyouandaids.org
[Any details of the agenda of the The first International Conference [Indo-US] on AIDS
India, which was held at AFMC, Pune during 1995. Any follow up? Moderator]
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Date: Sun, 21 Get dim! 00:22:46 +0000
From: "lath?. ittoonriathan" <latbajaeu'31hotmail.cotn>
To: scchara@vsnl.com
Dr. Francis / Dr. Thelma,
1 thought Uiis may be of interest to the Task Force,
Latha
>From: Lalit Dander"
>Reply-1 o: joe thomas 123(r/\ .-hoo.com.au
>To: AJDS-INDlA@ye.hoogroups.com
>Subject; [AIDS-INDIA] New member .io the AIDS-INDIA erOk t .hvi
>Date: Fri. 19 Oct 2001 WASAO -i 1000 (EST)
>[Dear ibrum mebers.now we have 701 subscribers to AIDS-INDIA eFOURM:
>Moderator]
>Hi
>1 am a medical doctor and public health specialist.
>1 have been involved in epidemiology studies and health system
development in India. I have recently taken up the position of
>Director,
Policy al the Administmlivc Staff College of India
>in Hyderabad.
>1 look forward to participation in the AIDS debate in India.
>Bcst wishes.
>Lalit
>Laiit Dandona, MD, MPIT
>Director. Health Policy
>Ccntrc for Social Services
>Administrative Staff College oflndia
>Bella Vista, Raj Bhavan Road
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[AIDS-INDIA] ReiAFFORDABLE MEDICINES AND TREATMENT CAMPAIGN
Subject: [AIDS-IXDIA) Re:AFFORDABLE MEDICINES AND TREATMENT CAMPAIGN
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:09:07 +0530
From: "HTV Aid? Unit” <aid?lawl(^.del2:v?nLnetin>
To; <ATDS-TNDTA@yahoosroiipK: com>
dear all,
a posting had been made about the Affordable Medicines and Treatment Campaign yesterday.
here are the details of the programs in delhi on world AIDS day.
Prices of Medicines are going to rise!
act
NOW c® pay later 1
The right to health is a basic fundamental tight
This includes the right to accessible and affordable medicines and treatment
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Prices of medicines, especially those for HIV/AIDS, are unaffordable for most
people today.
India has to change its Patent Law in accordance with the HTO TRIPs agreement by
January 2005.
This will make medicines even more expensive and totally unaffordable.
To demand the right to health for all, people living with HIV/AIDS, Activists, NGOs,
Doctors and Lawyers have joined hands to initiate a campaign
JOIN US FOR THE DELHI LAUNCH OF THE NATIONHIDE
AFFORDABLE MEDICINES AND TREATMENT CAMPAIGN
On
World AIDS Day
December 1st 2001
The programme:
3.30 pm to 4.30 pm - PUBLIC MEETING AT DEPUTY SPEAKER'S HALL, CONSTITUTION CLUB, RAFI
MARG, NEW DELHI
5.00 pin onwards - CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AT JANPATH, NEAR JEEVAN BHAKTI BUILDING
rar- mote details, contact: Ghatan (Be Bitra Gactga) - 6868250, Delhi Network of Positive
People (Naveen) - 6219147, Naz Foundation (Shaleen) - 6563929, Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS
Unit (Ttipti/Akshay) 4321102/01
"HIV Aids Unit"
E-mail: <aidslawl@del2.vsnl.net.in>
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ABLE MEDICINES AND TREATMENT CAMPAIGN
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[AlP0-IH 1?IA] teziial behavi'jw sn$fi§ sc-hesl *OKl#ihj in India
Subject: [AIDS=INDIA] sexual behaviour among school students in India
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:59:51 -0000
From: AIDS-INDIA@y3hoogroups.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Hi all,
Just a short note to tell you that Volume 13, Number 6 of:
AIDS Care, a journal from Carfax Publishing contains the following article:
Study of perceived norms, beliefs and intended sexual behaviour
among higher secondary school students in India
M. 5, Selvan/ M. W. Ross; A. S. Kapadia; R, Mathai; 3. Hira
[If the authors could post the findings of this study on the forum it will be appreciated.
Thannks. Modereator]
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11/30/01 9:11 AM
[AIDS-INDIA] TRIPS and Public Health
Subject [AIDS’INDIA] TRIPS and Public Health
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:28:53+0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <fxbjagdish@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharBh@afkb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
TRIPS and Public Health: the Doha Declaration
The Hindu 29th November 2001-New Delhi
CONTRARY TO many predictions, the Doha meeting of the World Trade Organisation did manage
to put together a Declaration in TRIPS (Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights) and
Public Health. This is one of the areas where the point of view of the developing
countries has been conceded. There is an assurance that the restrictive clauses under the
TRIPS agreement on drug patents will not overripe public health concerns. The Ministerial
Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health was prompted by the recent criticisms on the high
treatment costs with patented drugs for HIV/AIDS and Anthrax and the inability of
governments and patients to access lower-priced generic versions because of the patent
system. Essentially, the new declaration has very little new matter. Rather, it is a
reiteration of the fundamental tenets already built in the 1994 Agreement on TRIPS. The
Declaration has endorsed more emphatically the following points: Need for TRIPS to address
the public health problems affecting the Developing Countries (DCs) and the Least
Developed Countries (LDs) especially for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and other
epidemics.
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[AIDS-INDIA] Indira teenagers sacrosanct about virginity
Subject; [AIDS-ENDIA] Indian teenagers sacrosanct about virginity
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:42:56 +0530
From:"Jagdish Harsh" <&bjagdish(§^'ahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afkb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups,com>
Indian teenagers sacrosanct about virginity
The Indian Express 28 November, 2001-New Delhi
CHANNAI: Indian teen-agers tend to protect their virginity more than other nationals and
the average age for a sexual experience in India is 20.3, according to a global survey.
The Durex global sex survey carried out in 28 countries found that the average age for the
first sex experience was 16.9 for Britishers and 16 for Americans. The survey conducted in
the four metros found that 77 per cent of India's jdults have had only one sexual partner,
compared.to.il per cent in'the case of Americans and 13 per cent in the case of
I^ritishers. The findings of the survey were announced by T.T Raghunathan, executive
vice-president, TTK LIG Limited, makers of Durex and other brands of condoms marketed in
India and over 40 countries. Raghunathan said almost seven out of ten Indians were
concerned about contracting the Human Immuno Virus (HIV) deficiency or other sexually
transmitted diseases, but many were not protecting themselves. A quarter of Indians (27
per cent) were taking no steps to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS by safe sex (use of
condoms). Of those who do, just 15 per cent insist on using a condom for casual sex and
only ten per cent ask their partner about their sexual history, the survey revealed.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( wvw.fxb.org )
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[AIDS-INDIA] DARE TO CARE - HUMSAFAR ON WORLD AIDS DAY
Subject [AIDS-INDIA] DAKE TO CAKE ■ HUMSAFAR ON WORLD AIDS DAY
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:55:30 +0530
From: "Humsafar@vsnl.coni" <humsafar@vsnl.com>
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DARE TO CARE
BorId Aids Day Commemoration on December 1st,2001
This year on the occasion of World Aids Day, The Humsafar Trust is putting up three stalls
at different venues in Bombay and the slogan all over for the World Aids Day is dare to
CARE.
The first stall is at the Kalina University Campus and will be attended by Humsafar
Volunteers and Doctors from Sion Hospital. We will be providing basic information on HIV
issues and the kind of help being provided by Humsafar to the MSM ( Men having sex with
Men )
The second stall is at Dadar Railway Station (Central) on the overbridge near the ticket
booking counter. This stall will be attended by Humsafar Volunteers, Doctors and
Counselors from Sion Hospital and much detailed information about HIV and STI's will be
provided. @e will be equipped with all sorts of IEC materials and any help needed on gay
issues can also be discussed with the counselor present on the stall.
The stall will remain open to everyone from 10.00 am to 9.00 pm.
Finally the third stall will be put up at the Gateway of India where MDACS ( Mumbai
District Aids Control Society )
is holding a MELA on the World Aids Day where stalls by around 15 NGO's funded by them
will be presenting their work over the last three years.
The Humsafar stall will be a high camp gay stall where the whole thing is being done up
in Pink. Pink Cloth, Pink Paper materials and Pink Flower decorations will highlight the
gay culture in it's full splendor. The stall will be attended by Humsafar Volunteers and
Humsafar counselors and we will be open to the idea of discussing any and every gay issue
under the gun.
We shall also be keeping IEC material imparting information about various STI's and HIV
issues and emphasizing the need to use condotaa.
The stall will remain open from 10.00 am to 8.00pm
He invite everyone to visit these stalls, especially at the Gateway of India as this is
one more opportunity for gay men of the city to come out in the open and make their
presence felt.
This is our chance to let the world know that WE DARE and HE CARE !1
Humsafar
E-mail: hum3afar@vsnl.com
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[AIDS-INDIA] tafemistion on ft? AIDS Conference in Mumbai
Subject [AH)S=D®IA] Information on the AIDS Conference in Mumbai
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:44:35 -0500
From: Avni Amin--aamin@genderhealth.org>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroupB.com
Dear Forum Members:
Does anyone have information (location, registration etc) on the upcoming
AIDS conference in Mumbai from Dec. 16th-19th? He seemed to have misplaced
the information package the conference organizers sent us. I would be
grateful if someone could send me the information on registration and
location in Bombay where it is going to be held.
Thanks.
With Kind Regards
Avni
Avni Amin, Ph.D.
Senior Program Associate
Center for Health and Gender Equity
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 910
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Tel: 301-270-1182
Fax: 301-270-3052
Website: www.genderhealth.org
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[AIDS-INDIA] Cotnpfehwisw list of MTCT programs in India
Subject [AIL'S INDIA] Comprehensive list of MTCT programs hi India
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 0222:34 +0530
From: "thanuja choudary" <tanujal23@hotmailconi>
To: aids-india@yahoogroups.com
Dear Forum Members,
I am a Graduate student at Long Island University in New York and currently
working on a paper reviewing the current services available for prevention
of mother to child transmission in India.I will appreciate if you can refer
me to a source where I can get a comprehensive list of MTCT
programs (Government,Non Government and Private sector)in India.
Thank you for your assistance in advance
Tanuja
E-mail: <tanujal23@hotmail.com>
[Tanuja, If you managed to compile such a list, please feel free to post it on the
forum. Thx, Moderator]
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Cooking Ofl-60 Brands Tested
Subject: Cooking Oil—60 Brands Tested
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:02:27 +0530
From: cerc@wilnetonline.net
To: Chhapte <chhapte@cal2.vsnl.netin>, Darlena David <cd.cmai@vsnl.com>.
Health Fact <mediconsumea-s@earthlink.net>, Kaushik Desai <ipacentr@bol.net.in>,
Madan Katana <laugh@vsnl.com>, Mathew Nampudakam <vhai@vsnl.com>,
"N. V. Ramamurthy" <nvramamurthy@express2.indexp.co.in >, Pharmabiz <ipharma@vsnl.com>,
R Jha <ravisjha@hotmail.com>, Ravi Narayan <sochara@vsnl.com>,
Strategic <hospital@strategicnewspapers.com >, Unnikrishnan <unnich@wilnetonliiie.net>,
World Consumer <consint@entelchile.net>, Nina Shah <inika@icenet.net>
Press Release
INSIGHT - THE CONSUMER MAGAZINE
Cooking Oil—60 Brands Tested
The in-house comparative product testing laboratory of Consumer
Education and Research Society (CERS), Ahmedabad, tested 60
brands of edible oil of eight different types and found quite a
few of them adulterated. Some brands revealed less than the
labelled weight, some did not meet the Agmark standards despite
carrying the logo and still some others revealed rancidity. The
detailed results have been published by CERS in the NovemberDecember 2001 issue of INSIGHT — The Consumer
Magazine,
including the 'best buy' for each type of cooking oil tested.
The eight types of cooking oil tested were : groundnut, mustard,
sesame (til), sunflower, cottonseed, coconut, blended oil, and
palmolein. Quite a few brands of mustard oil and groundnut oil,
besides loose cottonseed oil, revealed adulteration. Some brands
of groundnut, sunflower, palmolein and sesame oils
showed
rancidity too.
Although almost all the brands met the limits of the PFA Act for
the 0.5 parts per million (ppm) limit on lead, a cumulative
poison, two groundnut oil brands — Dhara and Rajmoti — could
toot meet the 0.1 ppm limit under codex, the international
Standard.
Groundnut Oil :
Amrut, Ankur, Appu, Bhoomi, Dhara, Dharti,
Ginni, Kiran, Bion, Postman, Rajmoti, Safal, Sunsweet, and two
loose samples were tested.
Oilseeds can get contaminated with fungus (mold), which produces
aflatoxin, a poisonous material.
Amrut, which claimed the
Agmark, and Sunsweet did not comply with the Agmark limits for
this parameter.
One loose sample of groundnut oil was adulterated with cottonseed
oil. Amrut, Dharti and the two loose samples did not conform to
the
Bellier’s Turbidity Test for adulteration.
In
the
saponification value test for adulteration, Dharti and Rajmoti
did not conform.
p-
Amrut, Kiran and Rajmoti were found rancid.
&
/All the packs of Appu, Ginni, Kiran, Postman, Safal and Sunsweet
/y' gave less than the labelled weight. On an average, Postman gave
almost 9 grams less in every pack. But, Bhoomi, Dharti and
Rajmoti gave more than the labelled weight.
Mustard
Oil : Appu, Dhara, Double Hiran, Engine, Hafed,
Ketnpro,
Kolhu, Mastaan, P-Mark, Uday, and six loose samples were tested.
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Dhara, Double Hiran, Engine, Hated and Kempro did not comply with
the Codex levels for lead.
Refractive Index indicates adulteration. Appu, Hafed, Kolhu, PMark and Mastaan did not conform to this parameter as per the PFA
Act.
In
the specific gravity test for adulteration, Double
Hiran, an Agmark brand, did not conform to the Agmark range.
Another Agmark brand, P-Mark, did not meet the BIS and Agmark
levels
of
the natural essential volatile
oil
allyl
isothiocyanate.
Two loose samples did not pass the Bellier's
Turbidity Test. Neem oil was found in another two loose samples.
Double Hiran and a loose sample were rancid. A high acid value
indicates rancidity. Kempro, an Agmark brand, showed a higher
acid value than the Agmark and BIS levels.
All 20 packs of Appu, Double Hiran, Kempro, Kolhu and Mastaan
gave less than the labelled weight in every one of their packs.
Engine and Uday gave more in every one of their packs.
Cottonseed oil ; Amrut, Ankur, Fortune, Ginni,
Tirupati and two loose samples were tested.
Rishi,
Maruti,
Amrut and Tirupati did not conform to the test for rancidity as
per the PFA Act and the BIS. One loose sample did not conform to
the tests for iodine value and refractive index. All packs of
lAmrut and Rishi gave less than the labelled weight.
Sesame oil : Idhayam, Kempro, Mahima, Pavithram, Raj, Swarnam,
Tilola, Tilsona, Uday, and two loose samples were tested.
Kempro showed rancidity and a high acid value. Also, it did not
conform to the BIS levels for the Baudoin Test, indicating poor
quality.
Sunflower oil : Chaksun, cooklite, Crystal, Dhara Health, Flora,
Ginni Gold, Godrej, Karnani, Sundrop, Sunsleek and Sweekar were
tested.
Crystal did not conform to the limits of lead as per the PFA Act.
Checked against Codex, Cooklite, Dhara Health and Sunsleek did
not conform.
Sunsleek did not conform to rancidity as per the PFA Act,'the BIS
and the Agmark.
Also, Chaksun, Karnani and Sunsleek showed
peroxide values well over the BIS levels, indicating rancidity.
•
Sundrop had a flash point below the minimum level fixed
PFA Act, BIS and Agmark.
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Coconut oil : A.O., Cococare, KPI Shudhi, Kera
Parachute, and two loose samples were tested.
Nihar,
Popular,
Kera Popular did not clear the Codex levels for lead.
sample was found adulterated with cottonseed oil.
Palmolein : We tested Real Good, Ruchi Gold, Unique,
samples from the public distribution system (PDS).
One
and
the
loose
two
Ruchi Gold, Unique as well as the palmoleins bought from the PDS
— PDS-Maninagar and PDS-Naroda — were rancid. Unique and PDSNaroda showed double the peroxide levels prescribed by the BIS,
indicating rancidity. A high iodine value indicates a tendency
for the oil to turn rancid sooner. Ruchi Gold did not conform to
the PFA Act for iodine value.
Blended oil: We tested Saffola
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Cooking 03—60 Brands Tested
The blended oil, Saffola, with a mix of safflower oil and corn
oil conformed to all our tests. But 17 out of 20 packs gave less
than the labelled weight.
As a policy, we convey the test results to all the manufacturers.
They receive only the results of their own products. Details of
rating and ranking and communication with manufacturers is
discussed in the magazine.
Manufacturers try to allure consumers with claims of healthy
oils, zero cholesterol, triple filtered and so on. This issue of
Insight - The Consumer Magazine discusses the genuineness or
otherwise of all such claims and clears the confusion surrounding
them. Choosing a healthy oil today seems to be a complicated task
with much information or misinformation being disseminated about
the benefits of particular brands and oil types and with
conflicting versions on the different types of fatty acids. While
some proclaim the benefits of polyunsaturated fatty acids, others
approve of monounsaturated fats as the best cooking oil.Insight
probes the pros and cons of the various types of oils and which
oils are suitable for particular cooking, thus helping consumers
to make an informed choice.
•
Date : 9/11/2001
Place : Ahmedabad
Pritee Shah
Editor, INSIGHT
Opinions, test results and research findings issued through this
Press Release cannot be used in any form directly or indirectly
for advertising, promotional or commercial purpose.
CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY
"Suraksha
Sankool", Thaltej, Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar
Highway,
Ahmedabad- 380 054 (INDIA) Phone: 079-7489945-46, Fax: 0797489947, E-mail: cerc@wilnetonline.net
11/12/01 12:1'
[DS-INDIA] Ref: "TB -transmitted sexually" - NARI!!??
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Ref: "TB -transmitted sexually" - NARI!!??
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 12:45:39 +0000
From: "ramesh paranjape" <rameshparanjape@hotmail.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.coni
Dear Forum Members,
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Ihis is in response to the letter from Mr. Ashok Row Kavi.
It is unfortunate that I have been Quoted Wrongly by the Times of India. I Would like to clarify
that I had not made statement that TB is transmitted sexually. I had
made statement on the transmission of Herpes and Hepatitis B based
on the observations in our cohort.
2.
Prevalence of HIX' infection in newly diagnosed TB patients has been observed to the extent
of 28% in clinic in Pimpri-Chinchwad area in Pune. However, I would
like to make it clear that it is not MDR-TB.
NARI has been conducting research on various aspects of HIV/AIDS and the scientists from NARI have published a
number of scientific papers in National and International peer reviewed Journals. We would keep up the tradition of
good science.
Ramesh Paranjape
Officer-in-Charge, NARI
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12/10/01 2:18 PM
IDS-INDIA] Re: Migrants-a Health threat!
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: Migrants-a Health threat
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 20:55:39 EST
From: global325@aol.com
To: AJDS-INDIA@yahoogioups.com
Indigenous corrupt officials are a much greater health threat than migrants!
Ron Brinn
E-mail: global325@aoi.com
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12/10/01 2:20 PM
IDS-INDIA] NGO to court Legalise homosexuality
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] NGO to court: Legalise homosexuality
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:23:28 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
NGO to court: Legalise homosexuality
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The DelYii YiigYi court on Friday issued a notice to ttic Centre among others
over a writ petition seeking that homosexuality should be legalized and sex between
consenting adults of the same gender should not be penalized. In its petition, Naz
Foundation, an NGO, said that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was violative of Articles
14, 15, 19 (1) (A-D) and 21 of the Constitution (fundamental rights relating to equality and
freedom.) It said that Section 377 was being misused to harass adults of the same sex who
indulge m sexual activity by consent. Under Section 377 (Unnatural Offence Relating to
Sexual Behaviour,) any police officer can arrest a person involved in such acts and the
person can be punished with a life term if convicted. Calling the section unconstitutional,
i^e petition said that Section 377 IPC, which equates homosexuality with sodomy and
WStiality, has become a major impediment in the NGOs HIV/AIDS programs with the "men who
have sex with men" community as it lead to harassment and extortion of NGO workers by the
police. A division bench comprising justices Dewinder Gupta and S.K. Kaul issued notices to
the ministry of social welfare, the Delhi government, commissioner of police and the national
AIDS Control Organisation asking them why the petition should not be admitted.
The next date of the hearing has been fixed for January 28, Naz counsel Anand Grover on
behalf his client submitted before the court that "the discriminatory attitudes exhibited by
state agencies towards sexuality minorities including gay men, lesbians and transgender
individuals has resulted in the denial of their fundamental rights." The counsel further
added: "Unless the self respect and dignity of sexuality minorities is restored by doing away
with discriminatory laws such laws as Section 377, it will not be able to promote HIV/AIDS
prevention in the community.
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12/10/01 2:22 PM
^DIAI Demystifying the taboo' word
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Demystifying the 'taboo' word
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:21:05 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDlA@yahoogroups.com>
Demystifying the 'taboo' word
NEW DELHI,
Dec.
7.
-The acronym AID3 has always raised eyebrows and han left people with
unanswered questions, which one is unable to put it open either due to hesitation or lack- of
proper knowledge. Rai Bahadur Gujarmal Modi Foundation-an non-governmental organisation-is
sensitising people, specially children for the past one year about this dreaded disease. The
NGO organised "Peer Educator Workshop" today in the Capital with a group of children from
different schools, for this purpose.
Huddled in a room with their teachers occupying one portion of the space and posters carrying
AIDS messages on the wall, these children were initially reluctant to come out with the
queries about the disease. So the first step towards success for Feisal Alkazi and Martha
FarJwi, the two "counselors", was to break the "ice" by putting up questions like "Do you
know what is AIDS?" or "Have to met anyone who has AIDS? What was your reaction?" The idea
behind putting these "simple questions" was to create atmosphere where the children could
feel comfortable and not as "only" one "interested" in the disease. And when the ice finally
broke, there were questions and more question from these children.
What came as a pleasant surprise to the counselors was that most of the children felt that it
is the society which needs a "drastic change", when it comes to socialising with an AIDS
patient. "We all know how the disease spreads, therefore, there is no point in alienating the
person (suffering from AIDS) or ignoring their existence," said Mridul, a student of the Air
Force School. After a point of time, there were open discussions between the students and
teachers on whether or not an HIV infected person should marry or whether one should marry an
HIV infected person. Then all sort of queries and solutions were given by the children
pertaining to "safe sex” with an HIV infected person and what role should the spouse of an
HIV infected person should play.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Franqois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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12/10/01 2:27 PM
Migrants-a Health threat!
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Migrants-a Health threat!
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:10:16 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-]NDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Punjab Minister calls migrants a health throat
The Indian Enpreao 4th December,
2001— New Delhi
If you ask State Health Minister Baldev Raj Chawla, migrants from other states are the
biggest health threat for Punjab. Migrants have brought with them contagious diseases, Chawla
said at an awareness Programme on AIDS and leprosy here. He held migrants responsible for the
increasing AIDS cases in the state. "This deadly disease spreads among those who travel from
one place to the other as they come across prostitutes or fall prey to drug addiction, the
two major causes," he said. "Leprosy had been wiped out from the state but cases have now
been detected due to immigration of the poor from, other states, where the disease is still
^j|iespread, he said.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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12/10/01 2:36 PM
^S-INDJa] Grown Up Govt lines up .AIDS chat show
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Grown Up Govt lines up AIDS chat show
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:09:13 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.coni>
Grown-up govt lines up AIDS chat show
The Telegraph 5th December, 2001-New Delhi
Hew Delhi,
December.
4
•- For a government shy of including sex education in the school
curriculum, hosting a chat show on AIDS on its channel-Doordarshan-is surely a step forward.
To increase awareness oh AIDS, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)-an arm of the
Union health ministry-has put together two chat shows in Hindi and English’!
Neena Gupta and Mallika Sarabhai will anchor the shows. Khamoshi Kyon, presented by Gupta in
Hindi, will begin this Wednesday at 10 pm on Doordarshan. Sarabhai's English show chat
positive will begin on December 15 on Zee News at 2pm. 'These will be interactive sessions
with an audience drawn from students, parents, young people". There will be an expert panel to
Acuss various dimensions of AIDS, ' said J.V.R. Prasada Rao, NACO director, at a press
conference today. Health minister C.P. Thakur was also present at the press meet.
The NACO representatives had reasons to feel pleased. First, the organisation had taken the
lead to bread a social taboo. It also revealed its latest report on population behavioural
surveillance, which showed awareness on AIDS at 76 per cent of the rural and urgban
population even when the literacy rate stood at 62 per cent. The study :revealed'a significant
rise in awareness about AIDS. However^ awareness level was low in states like Bihar, Gujrat,
Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Predesh and West Bengal. The report, largest ever of its kind, surveyed
over 80,000 people. Since the study showed television to be the most popular medium with
'
Doordarshan having- the widest reach, the govermnenF’^de’cisioh to host cnat-shows' may help
thaw the socialice on AIDS, which continues to be a taboo. Most people interviewed in the
study were aware how AIDS was transmitted unlike in the past when people had little knowledge
about the channels of infection.
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cent women were aware that AIDS could be transmitted by
sharing needles while over 54 per cent knew that the disease could be transmitted through
breast-feeding. Mother-to-child transmission of AIDS is the largest source of HIV infection
in children below 15 years of age.
^e governent today approved a plan to extend the programme for prevention of mother-to-child
Uknsmission, which will come into effect from February next year. Over 50 per cent of
respondents in the' study knew that the risk of AIDS co~U"td—be—minimised by having one partner
and a long-term relationship. Over 15 percent of males reported using condoms the last time
they had sex with non-regular partner as against 39.8 per cent of women.
The government maintained that the number of HIV-infected people was not exaggerated. But it
added that with increasing awarness, the spread of AIDS was getting under control.
"A.wareness has come to this level because of our efforts and now we are slowly reaching a
plateau on AIDS,'' said health secretary Javed Chodhury.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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pS-INDIA] Grown Up Govt lines up AIDS chat show
-INDIA] AIDS counseling goes mobile
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] AIDS counseling goes mobile
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:04:19 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
AIDS counselling goes mobile
The Delhi Age 4th December, 2001-New Delhi
Hew Delhi,
Dec.
3; Delhi healtli minister A. K. walia on Monday leninehed a unit of the "Kajlv
eananl mobile aids counselling services" project, aimed at educating tne general public, and
not bniy nign risk group, 'about the dreaded disease. The mobile unit, which is a joint
venture of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Delhi state AIDS control society, would
create awareness on HIV/AIDS, treat patients of sexually transmitted diseases, distribute
condoms, inculcate safe behavioural patterns, help HIV positive persons to cope with the
disease and its progression and provide regular counselling. The project has an integrated
approach for the prevention, control and management of AIDS. The intervention package
includes information, education and communication, counselling (pre-test, post-test and
fjklow-up), networking with hospitals and nursing homes for testing, treating STDS, TB,
i^Kaging people with HIV/AIDS and social marketing of condoms. This programme, the first of
its kind, was planned and introduced in Tndia by RttF in 1996. It is being successfully
implemented in_Delhi and Mumbai. .Already 12 slums have been coyered_by_t.he project in the
city and the new unit would cover two__are.as._r_G. B. road and Rewla Khanpur j- this year. The
innovative experiment has succeeded not only in encouraging public to discuss and seek
information, but also in providing adequate madical, social and psychological support
services to persons with HIV/AIDS and high-risk behaviour. The model has generated a surge of
voluntary efforts.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Franqois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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^S-INDia] "TB -transmitted sexuallv" - NARI!!??
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] "TB-transmitted sexually” - NARI!!??
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 06:41:00 +0530
From: "Ashok Row Kavi" <arowkavi@vsnl.in>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
The Times of India carried an interview with the head of the National AIDS
Research Institute (NARI), last Monday where he has made the unusual~cTaim
that "TB and some other diseases are transmitted sexually".
Is it at all possible that this claim has a modicum of truth in it?
It appeared on Page 5 in the Bombay edition and I'm wondering how many
people read it. It seems quite controversial as it claims India will be
having an AIDS vaccine within two years.
I do know Prof Bob Bollinger and co from Harvard have been working very hard
with NARI but I had no idea about claims of TB being sexually transmitted.
Could he be talking of the proximity in sexual relations where an infected
persons coughs or kisses an un-infected person?
I^not sure what this is all about but it does seem alarming.
that 30 per cent of HIV positive persons do get MDR TB is one big
problem but this claim seems a bit far fetched and could be cause for alarm.
tIJI fact
Ashok Row Kavi
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12/10/01 2:41 PM
[AIDS-INDIA] Training: Building Leaders... Mainstreaming Gender in RCH Programs”,
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Training: Building Leadership for Mainstreaming Gender in RCH Programs",
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:34:17 -0000
From: abrarkhan@vsnl.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Two week training course on "Building Leadership for Mainstreaming
Gender in RCH Programs",
Goal: Develop leadership capacity of NGO networks to mainstream gender
in reproductive and child health program design and delivery for increasing gender sensitive
Participant Profile: The training course has been designed expressly for
organisational leaders, managers, board members and staff from SIFPSA and
USAID partner agencies in India. Some seats are being offered to interested
organizations and professionals working in the area of reproductive health,
population, gender and development in Northern India.
For more details, please contact:
Mr. Abrar A. Khan
Senior Advisor Capacity Building CEDPA - India
Email: abrarkhan@vsnl.com
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TAJDS-INDIA1 AIDS amount South African Indians
Subject: [A TDS-TNTHAI AIDS auioung South African Indians
Dale: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:55:53 —0530
From: ".Tagdish Harsh" <jamwor1d.@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jaguish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
S. Allied tow ovex 'fat, uiisexy' Indian 'slobs'
The Asian Aae, Sth December, 2001-New Delhi
Durban: Stereotyping of South Africa Indian women as "fat, unsexy slobs who dress badly"
has angered them and kicked up a row in the country. The furore started when a newspaper,
Sundays Tribune, quoted a few men who were asked why they had contracted AIDS. The report
quoted the men as saying chat their South Africa Indian wives failed to "turn (them) on"
in bed. The report quoted them as saying that South Africa Indian women were "fat, dirty
slobs" who dressed badly and wore "granny panties." The Tribune article generalized the
issue to the extent that scores of South Africa Indian women have reacted over the past
fortnight in many newspapers and radio programmes.
They claim the dignity of Indian women has been impaired, and that the men were using
excuses to highlight further their failure to take responsibility for the increasing
incidence of HIV/AIDS in the South Africa Indian community, which until recently was
believed to have the lowest incidence of the disease because of cultural taboos on
infidelity. South Africa has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world, and
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by it have only recently begun to come out of the closet about it. families of victims
have been hiding the fact for fear of isolation by community members. The controversy
started after Julie Emmanuel-Rhagirithi of the New]ands West. AIDS Support Group disclosed
why Indian men arc looking for pleasure elsewhere than in a long list of derogatory
remarks allegedly made by men who had sought counselling with her service,
Emmanuel-Bhagirithi said there was a desperate need" for sex education in the Indian
community.
The comments allegedly made by the mon refer to untidiness, sloppy dressing, poor personal
hygiene and a lack of sex education. "My wife comes to bed with greasy, oily hail and bad
breath and that is a direct turn-off. So it is not my fault when 1 am forced to visit
prostitutes and call airls," one husband said. "I like to kiss a clean mouth. I like a
good-smelling perfume. The magic is gone and she is there basically to cook for me, iron
my clothes and take care of my children."
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fAJDS-INDIAl Contact deatails of AIDS Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA).
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Contact deataiis of AIDS Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA),
Date: Mon. 31 Dec 2001 08:10:49 -0500
From: "George M. Carter" <gmc0@ix.netcom.com >
To: "AIDS-INDIA-yahoogroups.com"@mx2.vsnl.com
Hi,
I have a friend who will be visiting Delhi in the near future and is
interested in contacting this group: AIDS Bhed Bhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA),
and I have attached his request below. If anyone has information that could
help him, please contact him directly at tsrucker@bellarlantic.net .
Thanks.
E-mail: <grscC@ix .netcom. coms
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Subject: ' ATT)S-TVDT AI correct e-mail arldress for bitra george
Date: Tuc, 25 Dec 2001 08:19:05 +1100
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f AIDS-INDIA1 File - Invitation- Please forward
Subject: [.AiDS-INDIA] File - Invitation- Please forward
Date: 1 Jan 2002 16:25:53 -0000
From: AIDS-INDLA(?iyahoogroups.com
To; ATDS-TN'DTAigjyahnngronps com
Welcome to AIDS-INDIA eFOP.UM
AIDS-INDIA. eFORUM is an electronic forum to foster communication and collaboration among
those of who are involved or interested in AIDS related issues in India. Your e-mail id is on
this list because you must have indicated your interest in AIDS related issues in India or
some one else must have suggested your name as a person who may be interested in AIDS related
issues in India.
It you are already a member ct AIDS-INDIA eFORUM
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F AIDS-INDIA] Sexual Health in Kerala’ Perspectives and Strategies”
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Sexual Health in Kerala: Perspectives and Strategies”
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 23:09:53 +0530
From: "Maitreya" <maitreya@asianetindia.com>
To: <sea-aids@hcalthdcv.net>, <ISIlIMA-subscribe@yahoogroiips.com >,
<firmkerala@.yahoogroups.com>. <break-the-silence@hdnet.org>,
"AIDS-INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
From: Dr. Jos Chathukulam [mailto:crmrural@md4.vsnl.net■in]
Cail for Papers: National on Seminar Sexual Health in Kerala: Perspectives and Strategies"
Ever since the first HIV case was detected in Kerala a number of
initiatives to promote safe sexual practices have boon undertaken in the
stats. Some are sponsored by cionor sysnciss. Yet others have ama rg ad as
extensions of charity work already undertaken by some organisations with
their own resources. Multiple perspective on sexual health exist in the
state. There has not been a stock taking and comprehensive review of the
efforts made so far. The seminar is intended tr' T~'v'oTrir^e 3
for
reviewing tnese eitorts ano also for crystallizing the different
perspectives on sexual health, whether an all-together different strategy is
necessary aiven the socio-economic and political situation of Kerala also
needs to be deliberated upon.
This is to riulixy in advance about the seminar so that you /your
institution/ organisation/ department will be able to prepare a paper and
contribute to the seminar. The seminar is proposed to be held in March 2002.
Tho exact dares will bp communirated in my next letter which you can expect
within three weeks. The abstract of the paper may be sent before 31 January
2002. Deadline for the submission of the full paper is 27 February 2002.
Papers will be peer reviewed and only the selected papers will be presented
in the seminar. These papers will also be published in an edited volume
brought out by a reputed publisher. The seminar is organised by the Centre
for Rural Management in association with a few organisations including
university departments. The paper contributors will be provided travel
assistance and local hospitality.
Please circulate this letter among the scholars/staff of your organisation/
institution/ department for information. Early response to this letter from
prospective authors will be highly appreciated.
Broad Indicative Areas
*
Changing Modes of Sexuality in Kerala
•
Profile of Risk Behaviour in Kerala : The Macro Situation
*
Profile of female (CSWs) and Male (MSMs) Seiz Workers in Kerala
•
Strategies for Mainstreaming STD/HIV Control into the Public
Health Institutions
Management
Rehabilitation Measures
12/18/01 2:53 PM
fAIDS-INDIA] Sexual Health in Kerala: Perspectives and Strategies”
Cases of Bese Practices in Sexual Health Intervention
ase Studies
Issues Related to Counselling for CSWs and MSMs/ HIV/AIDS
Counselling
•
Condom Promotion Measures
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IEC, BCC Materials, Content, Effectiveness and
Client -Friendliness
•
Enabling Environment and Advocacy Building
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Ethical and Legal issues
•
The Rationale and Management of Drop In Centres for CSWs
Other Organisational Aspects
•
Gender Issues
■
Evaluation of Sexual Health Programmes : Methodology and Process
Papers may be sent to Dr. M. Johnson Samuel who is the seminar coordinator.
Looking forward to your whole-hearted cooperation and with warm regards,
Yours sincerely,
Centre for Rural Management
Perumpaikadu P.O
Kottavar. -696 029
Kei’did
E-mail: crmrural@md4 . vsnl.net. in
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[AIDS-INDIA] Feed abck from the 5th inlet ed care at Changmai held -17-20 Dec 2001
Subject: [AIDS-EX'DIA] Feed abck from the 5th international conference on home based care at
Changmai held - 17-20 Dec 2001
Date: Thu. 3 Jan 2002 04:51: J 5 +0530
From: "Shyamala Ashok" <aabinand@.satyam.net.in>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear Friends
I had the privilage to be sponsored by FHI - India with man}'- a thanks to attend the 5th international conference on home and community care for Persons living with
HTv/AIDS from 17th Dec_^2Cnh Dec 2001 in Changmai Bangkok. The following were the noted issues andpossible solutions that were broadly discussed and expressed.
It was"clearly recognised that in tire coining years home based care with community support is the only solution to HIV/AIDS management which of course should be
integrated. The conference did give us insight especially to the NGOs who are running communioty based care programs from large countries like India wherein we face a
lot of complexities with our existing programs.
Regards
shyamala ashok
Issues:
AIDS can he treated: HIV is a manageable chronic disease; Home cam services helps us listen, care and support, the major obstacles to which are stigma <&
discrimination; Care & Support and Prevention should be integrated.
The reality of AIDS: Chronic ill health and stigma threatens humanity; AIDS has lead to friendships and to improve health we need medicines; fight to preserve human
dignity, which includes a fight to drugs.
Barriers: Comprehensive needs assessment: Sex Workers and Micro credit; Commercial based research; Integrate counselling with home care; Quality of Life needs to
get real; MTCT can now be narrowly focused; Long standing issue of integration; DOTS can also be applied to monitoring of ARV.
Improving access to Quality-: Management of OI is primary; Prevention of OI helps in the long run; Simple medicines help die PLHA needs; Uncertainty of prophylaxis
with clear information; ARV will become more available with CD4 monitoring; .ARV are cheaper because of the greater involvement of PLWHA; Hospitals have chances
to do better and improve their skills.
We still need Home Based Care: ARV progression causes conflicts; If treatment is to help prevention enrollment must be fair, ARV has not addressed stigma.
Home Care Continuum (HCC) is the key to reducing costs: Limit burden on hospitals; I-ICC aecessasary tor PLWHA needs; Small Scale Projects - Lessons learnt;
Volunteers and Cost Effectiveness.
Sustainability: Basic needs are not met; how could we sustain volunteers; Church programs are more successful; Incentives tor volunteers.
How to achieve successful partnerships: GIPLWHA are cross cutting issues; misunderstanding between Govt, and PLWHA needs; Identity and different roles of the
partners; Volunteers should have professional accountability and improve quality; Volunteers with professionalism and supervision by peer leaders
Stigma and Discrimination in the social context of care: Rights and violations of rights; heard repeated stories; experience is at a different stage; issues of sell stigma,
children neglected: need for community based programs to help both adult and children; Taboo in India; Cleanliness, adequate nutrition and health; disclosure by the
burden of secrecy; interactive self heip groups; making access to treatment and care a legal requirement; integrating AIDS care into existing programs; using church based
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volunteers more sustainable.
Rights of Doubly Discriminated persons: Immigrant women need respect for confidentiality; Rights in IDU and sex Workers received less importance; interactive self
help groups.
Education and HIV infected child: AIDS having a devastating impact on children infected; involvement of teachers with more charges.
Coalition Efforts against Stigma and Discrimination: It is a major obstacle in partnership building; neutral organizations being a bridge to the Govt. Organizations;
Bridge Organizations to sensitize the Governments and banish taboos with human touch.
Enabling Environment and Problem and Challenges: Strategically and financially scale up successful small scale projects; social support for PLWHA: capacity
building of care providers in community that lacked funding for medicines; Disclosure of HIV status to adult children being problematic and not discussed sufficiently;
needs of family care givers should be discussed in addition to their roles in homes; "Head in the Sand” arc the levels of the private sectors who view HTV7AIDS veiy
lightly, the challenges to strengthen partnerships Gott, NGO and Private Sectors; Family and members should be seen as individual human beings with problems and
constraints; lack of discussion in community based to report to 1 million orphans; to reflect and synthesize greater contributions.
Possible Solutions:
Sustainability occurs only while you mainstream and integrate HCC with existing preventive programs; scaling up of Govt. and Private sectors with more pilot programs;
Business can manage AIDS; Large networks of mass organizations are an effective tool to create an enabling environment; Information networks can be used as effective
political advocacy to change views; Industrial networks to fulfill their objectives and contribute; human ability to accept to adapt and challenge situations but ultimately
integrate HiV/AIDS into existing programs; voluntaiy counselling; Business / labor Policy / Program Development with sustainability; Enhanced partnership building;
forceful advocacy and effective scale up.
Positive Living and obstacles: Stigma and Discrimination is still the riding factor, PLWHA should not hide their status and should come out openly and simultaneously
people should accept; lack of education and knowledge which applies to the infected and affected; Disclosure and Confidentiality to be simultaneously observed; PLWHA
are the best carers with good seif care; Need for multi sectrol synergistic approach to support and care for PWHA.
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I AIDS-INDIA] TB and HIX': An Online Course for Clinicians
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] TB and HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians
Date: Thu. 22 Nov 2001 04:55:27 -0000
From: AlDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
To: AIDS-INDlA@yahoogroups.com
TB and HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians
About this Course
Course description
TB and HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians is the first in a series
of online courses produced by the Francis J. Curry National
Tuberculosis Center. The course offers text that describes the
transmission, pathogenesis, epidemiology, screening, diagnosis, and
treatment of TB and HIV-1 coinfection, including information on
treatment of latent tuberculosis infection and treatment of active
tuberculosis disease in the presence of protease inhibitors. A set of
brief "review cases" and a full-length interactive "case study"
challenge the user to apply the content they have learned in the text.
Target audience
Clinicians and other health professionals
Medical and nursing students
Prerequisites
None
Fee
None
Continuing Education Credits
Continuing education credits will be offered for a variety of
professions, based on one (1) hour of instruction.
Course outline: [Summary]
Pathogenesis] [Diagnosis]
Antiretroviral Treatment]
Infection] [Bibliography]
[Epidemiology] [Transmission and
[Treatment of TB] [TB Treatment &
[Screening] [Treatment of Latent TB
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[AIDS-INDIA] SC stays grant of Rs 1 lakh damages to AIDS victim
Subject [AIDS-INDIA] SC stays grant of Rs 1 lakh damages to AIDS victim
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:31:13 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh” <fxbjagdish@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh” <jharsh@aficb.org>
To: <.AIDS-INDIA@j'ahoo,£roups.com>
SC stays grant of Rs 1 lakh damages to AIDS victim
The Times of India 20, November- 2001
NEW DELHI- The Supreme Court on Monday stayed an Andhra Pradesh High Court order asking
Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) To pay Rs one lakh as compensation to a
worker’s wife who allegedly contracted AIDS during her treatment in the company-run
hospital. A Bench comprising Justice B N Kirpal and Justice K G Balakrishnan also
issued notice to respondents, including the claimant, and admitted the petition. SCCL
challenged the HC's October 29 order, which had asked the state government to consider
the "desirability of introducing a Bill granting sales tax exemption to imported
medicines for treatment of AIDS."
The victim had alleged that his wife had contracted the disease due to the negligence
of the hospital staff who did not screen the donated blood for HIV virus. The Bench
directed that sufficient HIV test kits and other equipment be provided to all
institutions and licensed blood banks be made to buy fool-proof equipment. All the
government hospitals should compulsorily use disposable needles for injections, it had
directed.
A five-judge Bench of the high court had treated a letter from the worker's wife as
public interest litigation. It had also asked the state government to issue necessary
circulars to public sector undertakings and other private sector companies "to see that
the persons suffering from HIV-AIDS are identified and/or given proper treatment.
SCCL's counsel P P Rao and B Parthasarathi argued that the high court erred in
treating the letter as PIL when the claim was of personal nature and not on behalf of
the public.
Counsel said the high court also was not correct in recording a categorical finding
that the victim had suffered on account of the negligence of the medical and
paramedical staff and then leaving it open to parties to seek appropriate remedies
before a civil court
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA)
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Subject: S’.' d: t Mt5 DIAl looking for guidance and a mentor for a study on disease perception
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 00:30:05 > 0000
From: ’katha jagannathar/' <iathajagu@ lioimaii.com-’
To: madhyamb@vsnl.com, samraksha@vsnl.net, knpplus@vsnl.net. mamtltasatish@vsnl.com ,
snehadaan <t yalioo.com, vravi@nimlians.kar.nic.in, chandra@nimhans.kar.nic.in,
j_mmakrishna@vsnl.com, pradeep@mahiti.org. sochara@vsnl.coin. manohar@sangamaonline.org ,
bctbng@bgl.vsnl.net.in , lman@vsnl.com. svjrao@liomiail.com
CC: dceptiprasad@nctkraokcr.com
Hi all,
Does AFK any member want to use Anoop's offer?
Please let me know.
Latha
>From: Anoopa Shanna
Reply -1 o: uids-india@yahoo.com
>To: AID S - IND1A@yahoogroups .com
>Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] looking for guidance and a mentor for a study on disease perception
>Date Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:24:58 -0700 (PDT)
>Hi
>1 am a student from the US, almost finished with BS in Computer
>Science and Bilogy. I am applying for a Fulbright gram ‘
>which v. ill allow me to go to India-with full funding to do a
>study in disease perception in rural Indians and-or slum-dwellers.
> I'he bases behind .my project is that international health organizations
Xsuch as WHO) need to have a basic understanding of Indian beliefs
>regarding disease before they can design adequate health interventions.
>Is this a relevant project? For example, I'm sure that WHO and other
>organizatic-ns do have locally-based partners from whom they get
'’information about Indian culture and how it needs to be considered when
^designing a health program.
>While in India. I '-,111 need an organization which can provide me with
>some guidance and a mentor and with which I can work in affiliation
>while I am in India, but like I said 1 will have foil funding.
>[f vou know of an organization that would be witling to work with me on
>this exploration of disease perception among rural Indians or lower caste Indians, please do contact me by
replying to this email.
>1 also welcome any suggestions or comments on my project idea.
10’22'01 11:59 AM
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r AIDS-INDIA] fighting .AIDS with jaughtcr
Subject; [AIDS-INDIA] fighting AIDS with laughter
Date: Tub. 8 Jan 2002 11:01:55 GMT
.From: fxbkolkaia ffonlysmail.com
To: .AlDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Fighting AIDS with laughter
Hindusthan Times ,7th Jan.02
Imagine someone addressing a public meeting through a microphone covered with a condom.
Don't be funny , you would say . But, that's what Dr.I.S. Gilada, Sunil Dutt's Public
Health Secretary and HIV /'AIDS consultant, did to urge people to use condoms. Infact he
can do anything to drive home a point .Anything .Even wear condoms in the neck.
He hung a garland of condoms to urge people for safe sex. But why on earth did he cover
microphone with condom? Says Dr. Gilada "for those who says that condom use reduses sexual
pleasure".
"I told them if you car. hear them properly , then you sure can enjoy sex wearing a
condom". Speaking at Indian Science Congress On HIV Epidemic ;Dr. Gilada told that the
best 'way to check HIV infection is awareness. The best way to convince people is to show
them an example, he said adding, " of course I could not wear condoms where this should be
worn".
He invoked Lord Narada and Ganesh to advice religious people,. ”1 was afraid hurting
people's sentiment but in case of Ganesha and Naradmuni people tend allow some liberties".
Dr. Gilada says "I said Lord Ganesha's prashad for children and condoms for adults". I
also circulated cartoons (called them 'sextoons' if you will), showing Lord Ganesha
telling Narad muni to ask people to have safe sex, and Naradmuni
(who became Nirodhmuni
running with a bag of condoms).In a lighter vein he asked people to change postures
instead of partners
Dr. Gilada also used the platform to blast the Govt, specially NACO explianing why he left
a cushy Govt. job. "I realized I was fighting two viruses : Govt, and HIV. I am a small
man the diminutive campaigner said ,"I could not fight them both.
*
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1,9/02 9:46 AM
FA1DS-1NDIA] Delete section377 cf IPC NGO
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Delete section 377 of IPC: NGO
Date: Tue, OS Jan 2002 22:34:45
From: "kala rau" <kalarau@niantramail.com>
To: AIDS-INDlA@yahoogroups.com
Delete section 377 of IPC: NGO: DECCAN HERALD
Monday, January 7, 2002
BANGALORE, (DHNS. Mumbai-based Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS unit and The Freedom Foundation
with its head quarters in Bangalore has demanded the deletion of Section 377 of the Indian
Penal Code which empowers the police to book people for indulging in unnatural sexual
behaviour. Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Mr. Anand Grover, Project Director,
HIV/Aids unit. Lawyers Collective, accused Bangalore police of misusing the section
against homosexuals, by rounding them up in parks. "As per the section, the guilty should
be arrested only when found indulging in the sexual act and not when found cruising into
parks", he said.
The IPC Section 377, under the unnatural offenses category reads thus, "Whoever
voluntarily indulges in carnal intercourse against the order of nature with a man, woman
dr animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to 10 years and shall also be liable to fine".
Lawyers Collective in association with Freedom Foundation, an NGO, launched an awareness
drive about the rights of the HIV/AIDS affected in Bangalore on January 4 and 5, 2002. Mr.
Ashok Rau Founder/Director of the Freedom Foundation, who is one of the India's most out
spoken advocates and activist on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, also spoke. ” India needs
to review and make some drastic changes in some of the existing statutes and laws, the
existing ones are out dated and punitive" he said.
Justice Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa, and Justice Michael Kirby,
High Court of Australia are in the city to promote the campaign. They have been
interacting ’with different sections of society.
Justice Cameron who was also present at the press conference, said the issue was no more
confined to only the medical or the social aspect but had assumed the form of an issue of
rights. Justice Cameron said he was himself a gay and has been afflicted with the HIV
virus since 1995 and is on anti retroviral medication. "If rights are given to the
affected, the epidemic can be prevented from spreading", he added.
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[AIDS-INDIA] Free Booklet on issues involved in the care of AIDS affected children
Subject: [AIDS-IXDIAJ Free Booklet on issues involved in the care of AIDS affected children
Date: Fri. 04 Jan 2002 08:37:40 -0000
From: " Arabinda Pani" <arapani@yahoo.com >
To: AIDS-INDLA.@yalioogroups.com
HIV/AIDS increasingly threatens all of India's
people, and more and more children are becoming
victims. Some of these children are HIV positive, and
many have been or soon will be orphaned by AIDS.
It is imperative that all types of social support be
strengthened as the numbers of these children
increase. We strongly believe these children can be
integrated into existing child care programs in India.
While AIDS orphans who are not HIV positive do not
pose any risk of transmission, the risk from positive
children can be significantly reduced with the proper
use of universal precautions. Nonetheless, many of
these children are victims of unnecessary and
unfounded stigma and discrimination, and left unable
to access necessary services.
We have created Hand in Hand — a booklet describing
issues involved in the care of AIDS affected children,
as well as innovative initiatives child care programs
throughout India have taken to address them. We hope
organizations can learn from one another as well as
network to enhance care for children.
We are sending this email to inquire whether you would
like a free copy of this informative and useful
booklet. Also, if you currently do serve these
children or have plans to do so, we would love to hear
about your successes and any suggestions you may have.
We look forward to receiving your reply with your
mailing address.
S incerely,
Arabinda K. Pani and Aarti Kumar
E-mail: arapani@yahoo.com
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[AIDS-INDIA] 5.18 % of HIV transmission in New Delhi is due to blood transfusion
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] 5.18 % of Ei’; transmission in New Delhi is due to blood transfusion
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:57:38 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <janiwor1d@vsn].com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
iti-AIDS drive in city in February
The Asian Age 4th January, 2001-New Delhi
New Delhi, Jan. 3: The Delhi government has decided to launch the 5th Familv Health
Awareness campaign against AIDS in the city in February. While talking to reporters, the
Delhi health minister, Dr. A.K. Walia, said "as many as 646 cases of AIDS have been
reported in~the city so far. While 167 patients have died, there are over 22,000 HIV
positive cases in Delhi." The health minister further said that of a total 646 AIDS cases,
557 were male, 89 female, 18 in the age group of 0 to 14 years 234 in 15-29 years, 282 in
30-49 years, 66 above 50 years and 46 have not specified their age. "The sentinel
surveillance survey was conducted at seven sites in the city in 2000 which revealed that
in general 25 per cent of the population were HIV positive, among STD patients, 3.73 per
cent were infected and among drug users it was five per cent," said the minister.
The minister further said that about 73.58 per cent people had been infected due to unsafe
sex, 5.18 per cent due to transfusion of infected blood, 4.08 per cent due to indictable
drug use, 1.72 per cent due to prenatal transmission and 15.40 per cent due to other
reasons.
Dr. Walia also said that number of factors like increase in migrant population, street
children, commercial sex workers, and intravenous drug users contribute to the high risk
of HIV transmission. Prevalence of STD-infected population also adds to the number of AIDS
cases, he added. Health department of the Delhi government has evolved a multisectoral
strategy by seeking help from public, private, various government departments and NGOs for
effective implementation of this campaign. The Delhi government has also decided to create
awareness among the masses through television, radio, video screening, advertisements, bus
panels, hoarding at petrol pumps and colleges, kiosks on G.E. P.oad, stickers, message on
electricity and water bills.
He said that the family welfare awareness campaign would be observed in Delhi from
February 1 to 20 by setting up awareness camps.
Jagdish Harsh
jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) (wwvz.fxb.org )
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I AIDS-INDIA] TB and HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] TB and HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 04:55:27 -0000
From: AIDS-INDlA@yalioogroups.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
TB and HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians
About this Course
Course description
TB and HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians is the first in a series
of online courses produced by the Francis J. Curry National
Tuberculosis Center. The course offers text that describes the
transmission, pathogenesis, epidemiology, screening, diagnosis, and
treatment of TB and HIV-1 coinfection, including information on
treatment of latent tuberculosis infection and treatment of active
tuberculosis disease in the presence of protease inhibitors. A set of
brief "review cases" and a full-length interactive "case study"
challenge the user to apply the content they have learned in the text.
Target audience
Clinicians and other health professionals
Medical and nursing students
Prerequisites
None
Fee
None
Continuing Education Credits
Continuing education credits will be offered for a variety of
professions, based on one (1) hour of instruction.
Course outline: [Summary]
Pathogenesis] [Diagnosis]
Antiretroviral Treatment]
Infection] [Bibliography]
[Epidemiology] [Transmission and
[Treatment of TB] [TB Treatment &
[Screening] [Treatment of Latent TB
WEB PAGE: http://www.nationaltbcenter.edu/tbhiv course/index.html
Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center, ® San Francisco
Department of Public Health, 2000-2001 disclaimer
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11/22/01 10:34
[AIDS-INDIA] SC stays grant of Rs 1 lakh damages to AIDS victim
Subject [AIDS-INDIA] SC stays grant of Rs 1 lakh damages to AIDS victim
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:31:13 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <fidojagdish@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com >
SC stays grant of Rs 1 lakh damages to AIDS victim
The Times of India 20, November- 2001
NEH DELHI- The Supreme Court on Monday stayed an Andhra Pradesh High Court order asking
Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) To pay Rs one lakh as compensation to a
worker's wife who allegedly contracted AIDS during her treatment in the company-run
hospital. A Bench comprising Justice B N Kirpal and Justice K G Balakrishnan also
issued notice to respondents, including the claimant, and admitted the petition. SCCL
challenged the HC's October 29 order, which had asked the state government to consider
the "desirability of introducing a Bill granting sales tax exemption to imported
medicines for treatment of AIDS."
The victim had alleged that his wife had contracted the disease due to the negligence
of the hospital staff who did not screen the donated blood for HIV virus. The Bench
directed that sufficient HIV test kits and other equipment be provided to all
institutions and licensed blood banks be made to buy fool-proof equipment. All the
government hospitals should compulsorily use disposable needles for injections, it had
directed.
A five-judge Bench of the high court had treated a letter from the worker's wife as
public interest litigation. It had also asked the state government to issue necessary
circulars to public sector undertakings and other private sector companies "to see that
the persons suffering from HIV-AIDS are identified and/or given proper treatment.
SCCL's counsel P P Rao and B Parthasarathi argued that the high court erred in
treating the letter as PIL when the claim was of personal nature and not on behalf of
the public.
Counsel said the high court also was not correct in recording a categorical finding
that the victim had suffered on account of the negligence of the medical and
paramedical staff and then leaving it open to parties to seek appropriate remedies
before a civil court
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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[AIDS-INDL-'d laokiM. fty guidance < id a t .Titer for a study on disc sepcrception
Subject; Fwth | MOS-iSDIAj looking for guidance and a mentor for a study on disease perception
Date: Sum 21 Oct 2001 00:30:05 - 0000
From: 1 ‘iatha jagannathan" <iathajagu@hotmaii.com>
To: madhyaanb@vsnl.com, samraksha@vsnl.net, lcnpplus@vsnl.net. mamthasatish@vsnl.com ,
snehadaan itlyalioo.com, vravi@juinhans.kar.nic.in, -chandra@iihulians.kar.nic.in ,
j_rnmakrishna@vsnl.com, pradeep@mahiti.org, sochara@vsnl.com, nianohar@sangamaonliiie.org ,
bcibug@bgl.vsnl.ncl.iii, hnan@vsnl.com. syjrao@homiail.com
CC: dceptiprasad@nctkrackcr.com
Hi all,
Does AFK ' any member want to use Anoop's offer?
Please let me know
Latha
>From; Anoopa Shanna
>R.epi\ - i o: aid$-india@yahoo.com
>To: AIDS-INDI A@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] looldng for guidance and a mentor for a study on disease perception
>Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001. 18:24:58 -0700 (PDT)
>Hi
>1 am a student from the US, almost finished with BS in Computer
>Science and Bilogy. I am applying for a Fulbright grant '
>which will allow me io go to India-with full funding to do a
>study in disease perception in rural Indians and/or slum- dwellers.
>The bases behind my project is that international health organizations
>(such as WHO) need to have a basic understanding of Indian beliefs
Regarding disease before they can design adequate health interventions.
>Is this a relevant project? For example. I'm sure that WHO and other
Organizations do have locally-based partners from whom they get
>iriformaticn about Indian culture and how it needs to be considered when
designing a health program.
>\Vhile in India. I will need an organization which can provide me with
-'-some guidance and u mentor and wish which I can work in affiliation
-■while I am in India, but like I said i will have full funding.
>!f vou know of an organization that would be willins to work with me on
>ihis exploration of disease perception among rural Indians or lower caste Indians, please do contact me by
replying to this email.
>1 also welcome any suggestions or comments on my project idea.
i oil
■0'22'0
fAIDS-INDlA] fighting AIDS with laughter
Subject: [AIDS-IXMA] fighting AIDS with laughter
Date: Tue. 8 Jan 2002 11:01:55 GMT
From: fxbkolkata@onJysmart.com
To: .MDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Fighting AIDS with laughter
Hindustnan Times ,7th Jan.02
Imagine someone addressing a public meeting through a microphone covered with a condom.
Don't be funny , you would say . But, that's what Dr.I.S. Gilada, Sunil Dutt's Public
Health Secretary and HIV /AIDS consultant, did to urge people to use condoms. Infact he
can do anything to drive home a point .Anything .Even wear condoms in the neck.
He hung a garland of condoms to urge people for safe sex. But why on earth did he cover
microphone with condom? Says Dr. Gilada "for those who says that condom use reduses sexual
pleasure".
"I told them if you car. hear them properly , then you sure can enjoy sex wearing a
condom". Speaking at Indian Science Congress On HIV Epidemic ;Dr. Gilada told that the
best way to check HIV infection is awareness. The best way to convince people is to show
them an example, he said adding, " of course I could not wear condoms where this should be
worn".
He invoked Lord Harada and Ganesh to advice religious people,. ”1 was afraid hurting
people's sentiment but in case of Ganesha and Naradmuni people tend allow some liberties".
Dr. Gilada says “I said Lord Ganesha's prashad for children and condoms for adults". I
also circulated cartoons (called them 'sextoons' if you will). showing Lord Ganesha
telling Narad muni to ask people to have safe sex, and Naradmuni
(who became Nirodhmuni
running with a bag of condoms).In a lighter vein he asked people to change postures
instead of partners
Dr. Gilada also used the platform to blast the Govt, specially NACO explianing why he left
a cushy Govt. job. "I realized I -was fighting two viruses : Govt, and HIV. I am a small
man the diminutive campaigner said ,"I could not fight them both.
fxbkolkata@onlysmart.com
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fAJDS-INDJA] Delete section 377 of JPC. NGO
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Delete section 377 ofEPC: NGO
Dale: Tue. 08 Jan 2002 22:34:45
From: "kala ran" <kalarau@mantrainail.com >
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroitps.com
Delete section 377 of IPC: NGO: DECCAN HERALD
Monday, January 7, 2002
BANGALORE, ;DHNS. Mumbai-based Lawyers Collective HIV/A.IDS unit and The Freedom Foundation
with its head quarters in Bangalore has demanded the deletion of Section 377 of the Indian
Penal Cede which empowers the police to book people for indulging in unnatural sexual
behaviour. Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Mr. Anand Grover, Project Director,
HIV/Aids unit. Lawyers Collective, accused Bangalore police of misusing the section
against homosexuals, by rounding them up in parks. "As per the section, the guilty should
be arrested only when found indulging in the sexual act and not when found cruising into
parks", he said.
The TPC Section 377, under the unnatural offenses category reads thus, "Whoever
voluntarily indulges in carnal intercourse against the order of nature with a man, woman
or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to 10 years and shall also be liable to fine".
Lawyers Collective in association with Freedom Foundation, an NGO, launched an awareness
drive about the rights of the HIV/AIDS affected in Bangalore on January 4 and 5, 2002. Mr.
Ashok P.au Fcunder/Director of the Freedom Foundation, who is one of the India's most out
spoken advocates and activist on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, also spoke. " India needs
to review and make some drastic changes in some of the existing statutes and laws, the
existing ones are out dated and punitive" he said.
Justice Edwin Cameron, Supreme Court of .Appeal, South Africa, and Justice Michael Kirby,
High Court of Australia are in the city to promote the campaign. They have been
interacting •with different sections of society.
Justice Cameron who was also present at the press conference, said the issue was no more
confined to only the medical or the social aspect but had assumed the form of an issue of
rights. Justice Cameron said he was himself a gay and has been afflicted with the HIV
virus since 1995 and is on anti retroviral medication. "If rights are given to the
affected, the epidemic can be prevented from spreading", he added.
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(AIDS-INDLK] Free Booklet on issues involved in the care of AIDS affected children
Subject: jAIDS-INDlA] Free Booklet on issues involved in the care of AIDS affected children
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 08:37:40 -0000
From: " Arabinda Pani" <arapani@yahoo.com>
To: AIDS-INT2LA@yahoogroups.com
HIV/AIDS increasingly threatens all of India's
people, and more and more children are becoming
victims. Some of these children are HIV positive, and
many have been or soon will be orphaned by AIDS.
It is imperative that ail types of social support be
strengthened as the numbers of these children
increase. We strongly believe these children can be
integrated into existing child care programs in India.
While AIDS orphans who are not HIV positive do not
pose any risk of transmission, the risk from positive
children can be significantly reduced with the proper
use of universal precautions. Nonetheless, many of
these children are victims of unnecessary and
unfounded stigma and discrimination, and left unable
to access necessary services.
We have created Hand in Hand — a booklet describing
issues involved in the care of AIDS affected children,
as well as innovative initiatives child care programs
throughout India have taken to address them. We hope
organizations can learn from, one another as well as
network to enhance care for children.
We are sending this email to inquire whether you would
like a free copy of this informative and useful
booklet. Also, if you currently do serve these
children or have plans to do so, we would love to hear
about your successes and any suggestions you may have.
We look forward to receiving your reply with your
mailing address.
Sincerely,
Arabinda K. Pani and Aarti Kumar
E-mail: arapani@yahoo.com
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f AIDS-INDIA] 5. IS % of HIV transmission m New Delhi is due to blood transfusion
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA} 5.18 % of HIV transmission in New Delhi is due to blood transfusion
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:57:38 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <janiwor1d@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Anti-AIDS drive in city in February
The Asian Age 4th January, 2001-New Delhi
Nev,’ Delhi, Jan. 3: The Delhi government has decided to launch the 5th Family Health
Awareness campaign against AIDS in the city in February. While talking to reporters, the
Delhi health minister, Dr. A.K. Walia, said "as many as 646 cases of AIDS have been
reported in the city so far. While 167 patients have died, there are over 22,000 HIV
positive cases in Delhi." The health minister further said that of a total 646 AIDS cases,
557 were male, 89 female, 18 in the age group of 0 to 14 years 234 in 15-29 years, 282 in
30-49 years, 66 above 50 years and 46 have not specified their age. "The sentinel
surveillance survey was conducted at seven sites in the city in 2000 which revealed that
in general 25 per cent of the population were HIV positive, among STD patients, 3.73 per
cent were infected and among drug users it was five per cent," said the minister.
The minister further said that about 73.58 per cent people had been infected due to unsafe
sex, 5.18 per cent due to transfusion of infected blood, 4.08 per cent due co indictable
drug use, 1.72 per cent due to prenatal transmission and 15.40 per cent due to other
reasons.
Dr. Walia also said that number of factors like increase in migrant population, street
children, commercial sex workers, and intravenous drug users contribute to the high risk
of HIV transmission. Prevalence of STD-infected population also adds to the number of AIDS
cases, he added. Health department of the Delhi government has evolved a multisectoral
strategy by seeking help from public, private, various government departments and NGOs for
effective implementation of this campaign. The Delhi government has also decided to create
awareness among the masses through television, radio, video screening, advertisements, bus
panels, hoarding at petrol pumps and colleges, kiosks on G.B. Road, stickers, message on
electricity and water bills.
He said that the family welfare awareness campaign would be observed in Delhi from
February 1 to 20 by setting up awareness camps.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) (www.fxb.org )
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| AIDS-INDIA] AIDS Fund: Bureaucrat...People with AIDS in Poor Countries
•Subject: | AIDS-INDIA] AIDS Fund: Bureaucrats Betray People with AIDS in Poor Countries
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Date: Fri. 23 Nov 2001 10:31:33 -0500
From: "George M. Carter" <gmc0@ix.netcom.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA-yahoogroups.com@mx2.vsnl.com
Forwarded message: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 November 2001
Joint Press Release by NGOs from Belgium, Burundi, France, Ivory Coast,
Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, UK, and US.
Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria:
Bureaucrats Betray People with AIDS in Poor Countries
AIDS activists from around the world demand the Global Fund subsidize cheap
AIDS Drugs
(Brussels) International AIDS activists and medical organizations confront
the opening day of meetings of the Board for the Global Fund for AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria, in Brussels. Activists are concerned by the clear
lack of commitment among Global Fund decision makers to financing AIDS
treatment in poor countries.
Set to launch on December 15, 2001 the Global Fund is currently poised to
finance treatment only for diseases cheaper to treat than HIV, despite
public health evidence that AIDS treatment is cost effective and is a key
aspect of an effective response to the AIDS pandemic. The activists insist
that access to AIDS treatment is a fundamental human right that the Global
Fund must help fulfill, as 30 million people with HIV are currently living
with no access to affordable medication.
Activists from 10 countries have gathered in Brussels to meet with Global
Fund Board members to demand funding for AIDS drugs, including
antiretrovirals. The activists report that Global Fund decision-makers have
already made clear that funding HIV treatment in poor countries will not be
a priority for the Fund, despite the desperate worldwide need for AIDS
drugs, and the tremendous gap in access to AIDS treatment that spurred the
creation of the Global Fund by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in April,
2001.
"The Global AIDS TB and Malaria Fund is turning into a slow, under-funded
bureaucracy that will not be able to produce results. 27,000 people will
die today because they lack access to affordable treatment for AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria," said Zackie Achmat of the Treatment Action
Campaign in South Africa.
"What we're seeing here is a betrayal of what the Fund was invented for in
the first place. Rich countries cannot be allowed to simply sentence 30
million people with HIV to death because they prefer to focus on cheaper
diseases," said Evan Ruderman of the Health GAP Coalition. "There is no
reason for the Fund to wait to deliver vital medicines and start turning
the tide while global comprehensive plans guidelines are developed over the
next year."
The proposals being debated by the Global Fund board members fail to
address proposals for treatment programs, or for the procurement or
distribution of medicines. A concrete proposal that NGOs are making is for
the Fund to start saving lives now, by putting vital HIV drugs into the
hands of qualified field organizations through procurement and delivery
systems already housed within UN agencies.
"Hospitals, clinics and workplaces in the field can immediately scale up
effective treatment and care if they are given the HIV/AIDS drugs they can
not afford," said Joseph Essombo, an AIDS doctor with the Ivory Coast
Bouake Health Network.
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"The fund must prioritize programs that quickly put critical medicines into
the hands of the suffering," said Pearl Nwashili of Stop AIDS in Nigeria.
11/26/01 11.32 AM
I AIDS-INDIA] AIDS Fund: Bureaucrat...People with AIDS in Poor Countries
."But the donor countries seem perfectly content that the Global Fund will
not finance programs to start saving lives now, when 10,000 people with
AIDS die each day."
The Doha declaration on Public Health affirms the rights of poor countries
to bypass patents and purchase generic HIV medicines. "Even the World Trade
Organization recognizes that economics can not dictate double standards on
world health" said Gaelle Krikrian of ACT UP Paris. "The experience of
doctors in the field shows that HIV treatment is absolutely feasible in
poor countries, and, since the advent of generic competition, entirely
affordable".
The international group of NGOs will meet with Global Fund board members
this week to demand:
* GF must commit to saving the lives of people infected with AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria by providing treatment. Treatment for AIDS must
not be a lower priority than prevention, or treatment for TB or Malaria.
*GF must prioritize, encourage and fast-track financing for provisions for
AIDS medications at best world prices through international bidding and
bulk procurement.
•
* GF must agree that the Fund will quickly make funds for treatment
available to any qualified care providers that can rapidly deliver
treatment to people with AIDS tuberculosis and malaria.
* GF must support the use of best world price and not restrict the use of
affordable generic medicines to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria .
* GF must not use a shortage of resources to justify deadly ineffective
measures such as HIV prevention in the absence of treatment. Donor
countries must commit sufficient amounts to give the Global Fund, and make
good on the promise made last June at the United Nations' Special General
Assembly on AIDS to commit at least 10 billion USD a year to the global
fight against aids.
Oxfam International
Health GAP Coalition
ACT UP New York
ACT UP Philadelphia
ACT UP Paris,
Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa)
WOFAK (Kenya)
People's Health Coalition (South Korea)
Stop AIDS (Nigeria)
Renaissance Sate Bouake (Cote D'lvore)
Pharmacist's Association for Healthy Society (PAHS)
Intellectual Property Left (IPLeft)
People's Solidarity for Social Progress
Team of Drug Policy, Korean Association of Physician for Humanism
People's Health Coalition
-ends-
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IAIDS-INDIA 1 The ScouHiv end Riehls Institute: Exxdoxine Theory end Practice
Subject: [AJDSJNDIA] The Sexuality and Bights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice
Date: Fit, 23 Nov 2001 22:34:55 +0530 (1ST)
From: crea@vxnl.net
To: AEDS-JNDIA@yahoogroups.com
The Sexuality and Rights Institute. Pune, Maharashtra
March 15th to 30th, 2002.
This is with reference to the announcement for the Sexuality and Rights Institute that went
out in early October. We have received repeated requests to postpone the last date for receipt
of completed application forms over the last tew weens.
We would like to inform you that the last date for receipt of application forms has been
extended to the 15th of December 2001.
Attached below are the details about the institute. Please write in to us at
sexualityinstitute@vsnl.net if you have any queries.
The Sexuality and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice
The Sexuality and Rights Institute is an annual two week long residential course that focuses
on a conceptual study of sexuality. It will examine the interface between sexuality and rights
and its links with the related fields of gender and health.
Sexuality spans multiple disciplines and areas of work. Accordingly, the course content of the
Sexuality and Rights Institute will draw from different social science disciplines. National
and international faculty will teach the courses. They will employ different pedagogical
methods including classroom instruction, group work, case studies, simulation exercises,
fiction and films. The medium of instruction and discussion will be English. Participants will
examine sexual and reproductive health programs as well as various legal and socio-cultural
issues and will incorporate their learning into planning and working on programmes.
Course themes cover: Conceptual background,- The Rights Framework and Sexuality; Sexuality and
Gender,’ Sexual and Reproductive .Health and Rights/ victimhood and Agency/ Representation of
Sexuality; Sexual diversities. The core faculty includes: Radhika Chandiramani, Dr. Lynn
Freedman, Geetanjali Misra, Dr. Michael Tan, Dr. jyoti Sanghera, and Dr. Carole Vance. Other
national and international resource persons will also be part of the faculty.
Individuals working on issues of sexuality, rights, health or gender in India are eligible to
apply, A maximum of twenty-five participants win be selected each year, based on their
applications and personal interviews. Candidates must be fluent in English. Participants are
required to stay for the whole duration of the course.
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The Sexuality and Rights Institute will hold its first course in March 2002 in Pune,
Maharashtra. Participants will stay on campus in twin-sharing accommodation. The Institute
will cover costs of lodging and boarding for the 2002 course. Some travel scholarships will be
available on a needs basis.
The institute is a collaborative initiative of CRRA (Creating Resources for Empowerment in
Action) and TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues). Both CREA and TARSHI
are registered non-profit organisations. Based on a vision of the right to sexual well-being
for all people, TARSHI works towards expanding sexual and reproductive choices in people's
lives. CRB?. aims at ennancing tne capabilities ot a new generation of women leaflets using a
rights based approach to address issues of reproductive and sexual health, violence against
For more information, and application form please contact The Sexuality and Rights Institute
at the following address:
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[AIDS-INDIA] one day AIDS India eanfcreuee in Boston
x>ate: Tue, z7TNov ZOO1 14:17:00 -0800
From: "mvenna" <mveirna@dmv.com>
To; <AIDS'INDIA(H>)’ahwgronp8,com>
I am a retired Delaware State Public Health Laboratory Director, r served the state for 2<f
years until 1996. during my tenure I engaged the services of the Association of State and
Territorial Laboratory Directors now know as Association of Public Health Laboratorians with.
its HQ in Washington D.C.
I have served as chairman and facilitator of the Global Health Program Committee of APHL and
have worked with the NACO, India since 1990. We have brought several Indian scientists and
have trained them in the us in the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS and also have conducted many training
sessions in Indian Medical Schools about laboratory aspects of HIV/AIDS.
More recently I have worked with the National institute of Biologicals in India to establish
OA/gc programs and with The University Research Corporation and WHO in the global eradication
of Polio.
My interest in HIV/AIDS prevention and eradication in India remains my priority.
I am working with APHL and CDC as well as with The International Health organization (IHO)
based in Boston to establish HIV/AIDS diagnostic centers of excellence in India. APHL and CDC
have begun this work in Tamburan Hospital in Chennai.
IHO is sponsoring a one day AIDS India conference "India, the next epicenter of the AIDS
pandemic" on Friday, December 7, 2001 in Snyder Auditorium, Harvard school of Public Health,
677 Huntington Ave, Boston. Registration is now open (Call 617-254-5077 or Fax 617-254-2767)
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11/28/01 9:28 AM
[Att>S-INDIA] FILM- "SAHEIL A FRIEND IN NEED" TO BE RELEASED ON 29th NOVEMBER
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] FILM- "SAHELI: A FRIEND IN NEED" TO BE RELEASED ON 29th
NOVEMBER
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:46:38+0530
From: "ihoaids" <ilioaids@vsnl.coni>
Tot "aids-india” <AIDS-INDIA@yalioogroups.cotn>,
FILM-
"SAHELI: A FRIEND IN NEED" On TRIUMPH OF SEX WORKERS TO BE RELEASED ON 29th NOVEMBER:
A documentary film "SAHELI: A FRIEND IN NEED" directed by John Webster and produced by Oy
Millennium Film Ltd,, Finland on Struggle and Triumph of sex workers to be reckoned as a force
tor change through PHO's project Saheli will be released in India on 29th November as a
prelude to the World AIDS Day- December 1. The aesthetically made film was honoured with a
prestigious PRIX ITALIA award at a recently held Television Film festival in Italy.
John Webster is very positive that SAHELI documentary will be both informative and an
important messenger via television to the world of that significant work done by Peoples
Health organisation (India) and Sahelies, peer leaders of sex workers. The film shows how the
so-called most powerless and neglected people- 'sex workers' unite and changes the course of
the Hiv Epidemic, where in Mumbai notoriously termed as AIDS Capital of India has turned into
'aids Control capital of India' by the positive outcome of the project, Hiv infections are at
standstill in Mumbai when they are rising elsewhere.
Oy Millennium Film Ltd. has granted a project to distribute 1000 copies of the film to
Non-Government Organisations, Social work Schools, Universities and other relevant Hiv/AIDS
organisations in India and abroad. Another significant aspect of this film is that Sahelies
were involved in all the stages of the film - from planning to production and now in
distribution.
It may be recalled that Project Saheli, a brainchild of PHO was launched in 1991; which was
the first of its kind intervention project in the field of HIV/AIDS in India and in 1993 it
was recognised as a 'Bombay Model' at the 9th International aids conference in Berlin,
Germany. Currently this project is run without any grant or regular funding and is a
'low-cost, high out-put' project included in the UNAIDS best practices.
Saheli film will ba released at the hand of PHO President Sunil Dutt, MP and Director, Max
Mueller Bhavan Dr. Peter Schabert will preside over the occasion. The film will be screened
for Sahelies, Media and NGOs at Max Mueller Bhawan, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai on 29th November at 3
pm. All the concerned persons are cordially invited. Sahelies will address the press after
screening. Those interested in copy of this film should contact PHO, Municipal school Bldg.,
J.J.Hospital Compound, Mumbai-400008; E-mail: ihoaids@vsnl.com, with details like name and
address of NGO/Institution, primary goal and how they wish to use it.
Dr.I.S.Gilada, Secretary General, PHO
Peoples Health Organisation (India) {Formerly IHO]
Municipal School Building, J.J. Hospital Compd, Mumbai-iOOOOB
Tel.3719020; Fax: 3864433; E-mail: ihoaids@vsnl.com
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[A1D8-INDIA] Re; Trafficking in women and cMdren in India
Subject: [AIDS=INDIA] Re: Trafficking in women and children in India
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:20:43 +0330
From: "T Jacob John " <tjjohn@md4.VBiil.net.ia>
To: "AIDS India" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroupB.com>
This is in response to the UNIFEM project on Violence Against Women, which
trafficking in women and children in India.
focus on
when we detected HIV infection first in India (Feb 1986), then we knew about
trafficking of women. Stories.are often heart rending. There seems to be no
limit to human cruelty to humans, and mostly for money. Trafficking has been
going on, unknown to us, for a very very long time. Interventions to prevent
this inhuman trade is essential to reduce transmission -- not just for this,
but trafficking is against all norms of ethics, decency, civil behaviour
etc. He found that sometimes the extra money is a reason for complicity by
the law keepers themselves. In the most recent Lancet, there is an article
that police is a very important team of public health personnel. How true in
this scenario too.
HIV never caused any epidemic. We do, by creating all sorts of channels for
passing on the virus. I heard about a child getting infected in a Mumbai
hospital very recently, through blood transfusion. Another child,
thalasaaemic, always got clean blood, many times, but visited the home town
away from Mumbai, got one transfusion and got infected. In 2001. When will
we become civilised?
T Jacob John
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11/23/01 10:11 AM
[AIDS-INDIA] Woman with AIDS fights for son
Subject: [AIDS-INDIAJ Woman with AIDS fights for son
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 10:23:53 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh’ <ficbjagdish@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@aficb.org>
To: <ATOS-INDIA@yahoogroup8.com>
Woman with AIDS fights for son
The Delhi Age 24 November, 2001-New Delhi
Mumbai, Nov.23: A 40-year-old woman tested HIV positive has been righting to gain custody or
her one-and-a-half-year-old son, Sachin, from her niece, who acted as his custodian between
February and March 2001, while the woman looted after her elder son who was recovering from a
kidney ailment at St. George Hospital.
The mother, Jasu Jagdish solanki, who works as a sweeper in fort, resides with her elder son,
rive-year-old Dashrath, on a pavement in the neighboring alley.
Speaking to The Asian Age, Ms Solanki said: "Dasrath was surrering from a kidney ailment and
he was admitted to St. George Hospital for treatment on February 19. I used to leave Sachin on
the pavement but would always worry about him in the hospital, since he was alone and there
was no one to look after him. Sachin's Aunt and my niece, Billu, offered to take care of him
and she look him to her house. During Dashrath'a treatment, Billu also took my thumb
impression on a blank paper."
Ms Solanki said that when she went to fetch Sachin on March 20, after Dasharth was discharged
from the hospital, Billu refused to part with him. Billu and her husband lured Ms solanki into
giving her son away by telling her that they would buy a house and a television set for her.
On refusal, they did not even let her meet Sachin and asked her to go to her native place in
Navsari. Ms Solanki has not approached the police, she said: "Billu's husband might bribe them
and they may chase me off the pavement. Where will I go? My husband died of AIDS two years
ago. who will fall in the legal wrangle in his absence? Will i go to the course or fend for my
family?"
Leslie Pereira, a social worker in the area, who is helping Ms Solanki to get custody of her
son, said that Billu does not have a child and secondly, they have given neither her room nor
the television. Instead, they are threatening her and asking her to leave town. Mr. Perrier
said, "Billu told Ms Solanki that she had legally adoption. She got scared and now allows Ms
Solanki to meet Sachin."
Sachin's elder brother Dashrath, who misses his younger sibling, said: "I miss him. I will
take care of him and study. But please bring him here."
Jagdish Harsh ( jfiarsh0afxb.org ;
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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I AIDS-INDIA] Twin-edged blade India at the WTO- Doha meeting
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Twin-edged blade India at the WTO- Doha meeting
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:49:33 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <fxbjagdish@yahoo.com >
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Twin-edged blade
The Business Standard 23, November, 2001-New Delhi
The Indian negotiating team that went to the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha is
citing several trophies in support of its claim that it did rather well. One of
these is the declaration on intellectual property protection and access to medicines
and public health. The declaration has highlighted the provisions in the TRIPS
agreement that give members the flexibility to take care of public health
emergencies like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. But what is not emphasized
before Indian audiences is that the declaration has simultaneously reiterated
members' commitment to the TRIPS agreement. This underscores the belief that strong
protection to intellectual property rights can coexist with addressing poor
countries' medicine and public health.
How can this benefit India? In the first place, in seeking to make available
affordable medicines to its AIDS victims, India and other developing countries-can
ignore the rights of patent holders. They can buy these medicines from the likes of
Cipla, which sell them at far cheaper rates. Perhaps, more importantly, many African
and Latin American countries where there is an epidemic can import and distribute
Cipla's products.
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L'®S-INDIA] affordable medicines and treatment campaign
Subject! [AIDS-INDIA] AFFORDABLE MEDICINES AND TREATMENT CAMPAIGN
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:38:09 =0000
From: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroup8.c0m
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
AFFORDABLE MEDICINES AND TREATMENT CAMPAIGN
Prices of New Medicines in India are going to rise!
YOU CAN PREVENT THIS..!!!I
Dear All,
Indian law will soon undergo change because India has signed the
international agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property
(TRIPS). This change will have a huge impact on the Indian patent
law, which protects the invention of new products. The 'process
patent' system used in India so far will be replaced by a more
restrictive 'product patent' system.
The impact of this change on new medicines in unimaginable! Foreign
pharmaceutical companies will have sole rights to determine the
production, distribution, pricing and, therefore, availability of
new medicines. It is feared that such a situation will raise the
prices of new medicines to amounts that are unaffordable to most
Indians.
we wish to introduce you to a NATION wide campaign on affordable
MEDICINES AND TREATMENT for all. Many people in this country do not
have access to medical treatment at present prices. The idea of
prices of new medicines being several times more expensive is surely
unthinkable.
This is an issue that will have a grave and far-reaching impact on
the right to life and health of all Indians and requires immediate
action by the Indian Government. Since the Indian Government has not
responded to this urgent issue, we as citizens of India who have tc
face the eventual impact of TRIPS should ACT NOW!
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This campaign plans to lay special emphasis on access to HIV/AIDS
medicines for opportunistic infections (Ols) and Anti-Retroviral
Therapy (ART) . People with HIV/A.IDS can prolong their lives with the
help of these medicines, which are already very expensive (minimum
Rs.1800 per month for ART). New medicines for the treatment of
HIV/AIDS are going to be even more expensive. If we do not stand up
against TRIPS now, many more lives will be lost to this epidemic.
we must create public awareness and mobilisation. This issue
concerns all of us and must be confronted by a mass and unified
effort. NGOs, doctors and HIV positive peoples groups across the
country have joined hands to launch this campaign. It will focus or.
the accessibility of affordable medicines for all as a fundamental
human right that is enshrined in the Indian constitution under the
right to life and health.
Thia campaign win ba formally launched on World AIDS Day, December
1, 2001. Groups and organisations in Delhi are planning a public
meeting and candle light vigil demanding Affordable Medicines and
Treatment for all. Please find attached an invitation for this
program. We would be grateful if you could display the same at
prominent places and also extend the invitation to as many people
and groups as you can.
in advancing this campaign we need to reach out to as many
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individuals and organisations as we can to create awareness on the
issue. We invite you to participate in this joint initiative. It is
very easy to join the campaign, all you have to do is write back tc
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us on this address for further information.
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In order to create greater awareness on the campaign, a mission
statement, a leaflet, a flyer and a signature campaign form have
,
been prepared, these are being readied for dissemination. Please,
find, however, the mission statement of the campaign attached.
The following individuals and organisations, who have come together
in initiating this campaign, welcome and anticipate your support:
Delhi: Dr. Bitra George (Salaam Baalak Trust/Sharan), Shaleen Rakesh
(Naz Foundation India), Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+), Dr.
V, J. Anand (Maulana Azad Medical College), Lawyers Collective
HIV/AIDS Unit.
Manipur: Manipur Network or People Living with HIV/AIDS, care Foundation.
Mumbai: Maharashtra Network of Positive People (MNP+), Swayam Siddha Sanghatana (SSS);
Population Services International (PSI), Raghav Narsalay (Focus on Global South India), Dr,
Nagesh Shirgoppikar (Forum Against Drugs), Tony Lewis (Salvation Army), Lawyers Collective
HIV/AIDS Unit, Dr. Maninder Sethia, Denzil
McDonald; James D.D.
Pune: Network of Maharashtra for Positive People (NMP+;
Gob: Positive People gob.
Hyderabad: Rahul Luther (Freedom Foundation).
Bangalore: Ashok Rau (Freedom Foundation), Meera Levine (Alternative Law Forum), Karnataka
Network of Positive People (KNP+); sanghamitra Iyengar (Samrakasha).
Chennai: Indian
Network of Positive People (INP+); Dr. Tokugha Tepthomi(YRG Care),
Chitra Narayan, Advocate.
Trivandrum: Dr, Jaysree (Foundation for Integrated Research in Mental Health).
Thank Tou,
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] RED-RIBBON MARCH TO KICK-OKI' AIDS AWARENESS WEEK ON
NOVEMBER 30th
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:45:19 +0530
From: "ihoaids" <ihoaids@vsnl.coin>
To: <editor@expressindia.coin>, <baghel@mid-day.coui>,
"The. Statesman Limited" <thestatesman@vsnl.com>, "The Telegraph" <ttcal@cal.vsnl.neLin>,
<editor@tribuneindia.com>, "Sudip Mazumdar" <sudipmazumdar@vsnl.com>,
"Saira Menezes" <niagnapub@vsnl.com>, <alpbom@vsnl.com>, <bigfight@ndtv.com>,
"Community Research" <conmiumty-research@hivneLch>, "INTAIDS" <intaids@hivnet.ch>,
"aids-india" <AIDS-lNDIA@yahoogroups.com>, <apurvabhatt@yahoo.com>,
"Alpana Sharma" <alpanashanna@hotmail.com>, "Metro News" <metronews@zeenetwork.com>
RED-RIBBON MARCH TO KICK-OFF AIDS AWARENESS WEEK ON NOVEMBER 30th
The Red Ribbon is an international symbol or AIDS awareness: a symbol of respect for those who
have died of AIDS, of concern for those living with it, and reminder to us all of the constant
need to keep up the fight against AIDS.
It is also a symbol of how great achievements begin with small actions. The Red Ribbon came
into being in 1992 as the idea of a small HIV charity, Visual AIDS, in New York. Now, it is
recognised world over as the symbol of AIDS awareness. However, that is only because the
people who wear it show their support through speaking up and taking action on HIV and AIDS
Wearing the Red Ribbon is perceived as the first step in the fight against AIDS.
The World AIDS Week starting from the l<lth World AIDS Day on December 1, the first AIDS Day of
this millennium is unique in the sense, that the AIDS Awareness has now moved from
highlighting the problem symbolising a monster, 'Bakasur', 'Narkasur', 'Anaconda' or Dinosaur,
to care, as the theme of World AIDS Day 2001 is "I Care . Do You?"
>From a deadly disease during 1981 to 1995, HIV/AIDS has now become a chronic manageable
disorder like diabetes and hypertension due to the discoveries of potent medicines for its
management. Though the currently available anti-retroviral treatment (ART) does not cure the
infection, it provides a lease of lire for over 10 years. The cost or art has come down from
Rs, 40,000/- pm. in 1996 to Rs.1,500 to 8000/-pm depending on the combination of three
different medicines.
PHO has organised host or activities starting with 'Red-Ribbon March' on 30th November, the
eve the World aids Day, from its office in J. J.Hospital Compound. PHO President Sunil Dutt,
cine-actress Kunika Ball and T.V. star (Tele-serial "Shagun" fame) Karan Sadanand will lead
the march with host of other dignitaries. The Rotaract Club of Bombay Hills, National Cadet
Corps (NCC) and several schools and colleges have joined PHO for the Red-Ribbon March and
other programs during the week.
This is the twelfth consecutive year of the AIDS Awareness March organized by PHO so far. it
will pass through crowded areas of Nagpada, Bombay Central, Lamington Road and Opera House
before reaching Girgaum Chowpatty, where it will be on display till 8th December, on 8th
December there will’be an event tor lighting Candles at 'RED RIBBON’ at 6 p.m. followed by
VIGIL AGAINST AIDS - a Cultural Nite, Girgaon Chowpatty. PHO President Shri Sunil Dutt, M.P.
will preside over the function and several dignitaries will grace the program
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PHO has organised several activities to observe the extended week in Mumbai and 19 cities of
six states. PHO is holding two major Exhibitions: at Churchgate and Mumbai CST stations from
Dec.1-7 in collaboration with the western and Central Railways, besides collaborating with
colleges, youth groups and NGOs. PHO appeals NGOs, religious bodies, colleges/schools and the
entire community to observe this week to continue the spirit beyond to create much needed
awareness. PHO will run a Coordination Hotline at Tel.: 3719020 and a Mobile HIV Counselling 4
Testing Service at several locations during the week.
Dr.l.S.Gilada, Secretary General, PHO
WORLD AIDS WEEK (Dec. 1-7)/ WORLD AIDS DAY: Dec.l
PEOPLES HEALTH ORGANISATION (INDIA;
MAIN PROGRAMS AT A GLANCE
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12/3/01 11:39 AM
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2.30 pfu; Star-atUdded
NOV. 30:
'RED RIBBON March'
(an international symbol
meaning- I care for hiv/aids) from PHO,J.J,Hospital to
Oixgaum Chawpatty via Nagpada, Bombay Central, Lamington Road, Opera House PHO President Shri
Sunil Dutt, m.p. to lead the March
December 1,9-11 ams Human Cham ror aids Awareness by Rotaract Club or Bombay
Hills South and PHO, at churchgate Junction
Inauguration ol Mega-Exhibition on aids: churchgate (Dec.1-8;
December 1: 1 pm:
Inauguration or Mega-Exhibition on AIDS: Mumbai CST (Dec.1-6)
December 2: 10 am
Symposium on HIV Care for HIV-affected people
December 3: 10 am
HIV/AIDS in Workplace, Johnson & Johnson, Muiund Factory
December 4 t 11 am
'Two decades or HIV/AIDS', at Somaiya Medical College,
SEX RORKERS Educating Masses on AIDS l Free Condom
pm:
Distribution at Churchgate, CST, Bombay Central stations
December 5:
11 am:
HIV Awareness Programs for western Railway: Bandra
December 6:
11 am:
HIV Awareness Programs for Western Railway: Borivali
December 7:
11 am:
HIV Awareness Programs for Western Railway: Churchgate
December E:
6 pm:
Lighting Candles at 'PED RIBBON' followed by
VIGIL AGAINST AIDS
a Cultural Nite, Girgaon Chowpatty
PHO President Shri Sunil Dutt, M.P. to preside over
Several dignitaries will grace the program
Dr. I
lada, Hon
Secretary General, PHO
Rotaract Club of Bombay Hills, NCC, NSS and several colleges have joined PHO for the AIDS
Awareness Week programs
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[‘'^DSTNDIA] IHO's 3rd IiUctiutionM Conf..,' at Harvard University, DecwiVw 7, 2001
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] HIO’s 3rd International Conference on 'AIDS-in-India' at Harvard University,
December 7, 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:44:03 -0500
From: "Verma, Bikash (DPR)" <Bikash.Verma@stAte.ma.ua>
To: "'aids-uidia@eGroups.com'" <AIDS-INDIA@yalioogroups.com>
IHO'S 3rd. "AIDS-in-INDIA" CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, December 7, 2001
Snyder Auditorium, Harvard School ot Public Health
MORNING SESSION
REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
8:00- 8:30
6:30- 6:45
Opening Perna rte
Dean Dr, Barry Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health
8:45- 9:15
Welcome Address
Ms. Pramila Vivek, IHO
5:15- 9:30
Moderator, introduction to AIDS—in—India
Dr, Bikash Verma, iho
9:30-10:30
and Local Action
Keynote: 'Controlling HIV in India: worldwide Evidence
Dr, Prabhat Jha, World Health Organization (WHO)
10:30-11:15
Asia'
'Role of World Bank:
Dr. Salim Habayeb, The
AIDS Programs Globally and in South
World Bank
'Overview of Government of India's AIDS Programs'
Dr. N.K. Ganguly, Director-General, Indian Council of
Medical Res. (ICMR)
Advisor, National AIDS Control Organization
(NACO), Government of India
11:15-12:00
12:00-12:15
Questions and Answers
12:15- 1:15
LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION:
Moderator
Mr. Joseph D'Amour, Advisor, IHO
1:15- 1:40
'Linking US and India' - Role or usaid
Mr. Billy Pick, united States Agency for International
Development (USAID)
1:40- 2:05
'Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights'
Dr. Cliff Lenton, Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
2:05- 2:30
'FXB's Community-based AIDS programs in India'
Dr. Anil Purohit, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Foundation for
Health and Human Rights
2:30- 2:45
COFFEE-BREAK
2:45- 3:10
"sex, Lies and AIDS"
Mr. Siddarth Dube, Best-selling Author- "Sex, Lies and AIDS"
3:10-3:35
Countries'
'Prevention, Care and Treatment for HIV/AIDS in Developing
Dr. Bruce Walter, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts
General Hospital
3135- 4i00
India
'Cat-ch them Leung'- AIDS Education for Lounger Population in
Dr. Rajan Gupta, Los Almos National Laboratory/International
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4:00- 4:25
to India'
'BOSTON TO BOMBAY' : Transferring Prevention Models from US
Ms. Bins Sheth, MPH, Director, Massachusetts Asian AIDS
* Prevention Project
4:25- 4:35
4:35-4 :45
Closing Remarks, Ms. Sharmeen Irani, IHC
Vote of Thanks, Mr. Atul Kamath, Harvard University
For more information, please call: Dr. Bikash Verma at: (617) 983 6565
"Verma, Bikash (DPH)"
E-mail: <Bikash.VermaQstate.ma.us>
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Hello All friends and colleagues
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:46:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Saxena Rishi <rishisaxena@yahoo,com>
To: AIDS -INDLA@yahoogroups.com
Hello All friends and colleagues
Today is world Aids Day, lets observe a alienee for a
minute in the memory of the people passed away.
Educate more and more people about HIV/AIPS
Saxena Rishi
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Subject: [AIDS=ENI>IA] Sex on the kitchen table anyone?
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 04:27:13 +0530
From: "Dr. E. MohamedRafique"<emrafi@nid4.vBnl.net.in>
Organization; Tata Tea Ltd.,
To: <AIDS-INDIA@,yahoogroupB.com>
Sex on the kitchen table anyone?
Friday, November 30, 2001
Subhadip Sircar
For a nation that han done it right a billion times, sex is no laughing
matter. And yet we revel in our contradictions when it comes to discussing
sex. While sex has been a taboo topic, too sensitive for public discourse,
we as a nation-state go into delirium every time Madhuri Dixit breaks into a
dhak-dhak number.
But all that may be changing and for the good. If you are to go by the
findings of a recent global sex survey released recently, Indians may
finally be bringing their sexual fantasies and habits out of their closets.
Sample some of this. Indians not only love their bhaji on the beach, a third
of Indiana (32 pet cent) would not mind a dalliance there, too. Seven per
cent would, however, prefer a more domestic setting, notably the kitchen
table! Be have an average of three partners. And while 77 per cent have a
single partner, 23 per cent of Indians have averaged a whopping 10 partners
each. Talk of sexual reticence.
These are some of the mote interesting finds of the sixth Durex Global Sex
Survey, which studies the sexual behaviour and habits of people worldwide.
The survey, carried out by Durex, the world's leading condom brand, reveals
that people around the world are having sex an average 97 times a year. The
Americans lead the way, making love around 124 times a year (around once in
three days), followed by South Africans and Croatians (both 116) and New
Zealanders (115).
Globally, it is also being witnessed that young people appear to be having
sex for the first time at a significantly younger age than previous
generations. Hhile the over-45s had sex at around 18.7 years, those aged
16-20 tried physical intimacy for the first time at 16 years. However,
almost a fifth admit that they had sex for the first time at 15 years or
less.
Now for some good news. While we may feel threatened by the Chinese in
everything from soft toys to motorcycles, when it comes to the bare basics
we beat them on all counts.
The Chinese have sex an average of 72 times a year, Indians clock a better
average at 76. while Chinese have their first sexual encounter at an average
^j^-age of 22, we Indians taste the forbidden fruit at an average age of 20.3
Cb years.
Condom usage remains low in India. The Indian non-subsidised branded condom
market is 280 million units, which manufacturers say is low for a nation of
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our size. And the growth rate at 5 pet cent is not too encouraging. This is
something in which our finance minister may find solace, considering his GDP
growth estimates are not faring too much better.
on a mote serious note, almost seven in 10 Indians (69 per cent) are
concerned about contracting HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted
infections, blit many ace not protecting themselves. Another area of Coiioech
is condom usage while having sex. Twenty-five per cent of Indians take this
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protective measure while having tegular sex, but when it cornea to new or
casual partners, condom usage stands low at 17 and 15 per cent,
respectively.
Indiana, hoWeVet, do romain traditionalists on 3Ciiii& counts. Indian teenagers
tend to protect their virginity more than other nationalities and the
average age for a first sexual experience is 20.3. This compares with the
British 16.9 and the American 16.
When it comes to preferred information about sex, medical professionals and
friends remain our preferred source. Interestingly, while a quarter of
British adults prefer to seek sexual advice from their mothers, only 6 per
cent of Indians would choose to do the same.
Finally, when it comes to the last word, the land that gave the world the
Kama Sutra has finally got its act in place.
© 2001: Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd. All rights reserved
throughout the world.
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S-INDIa] Support to attend the Chians Mai Conference..
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Support to attend the Chiang Mai ConferenceDate: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:01:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Pinagapany Manorama <pmanorama@yahoo.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
CC: pmanorama@eth.net in
Dear forum members,
I am Dr.Manoramaan and i head an organisation called
CHES, which works for PLWH,children affected due to
AIDS and also Women in Prostitution since 1994.
I sent in a paper to the 5th International Conference
on Home and Community Care for Persons Living with
HIV/AIDS to be held at Chiang Mai,Thailand from
17-20 Dec.2001, which has been accepted for poster
presentation. But unfortunately, I did not get
^scholarship to attend the conference. My paper is
^Jout our experience working with PLWH/A on Home based
Care since 1996.
I am writing this mail as a last option to try and
get some help from the forum members. I will be very
thankful if you all can provide me some details of
agencies/organizations that maybe interested in
sponsoring me to attend the Conference and present
my paper.
With regards,
Dr.Manorama
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INDIA] My paper to the Chiang Mai Conference..
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] My paper to the Chiang Mai ConferenceDate: 2 Dec 2001 12:45:32 -0000
From: "Pravesh Kumar" <aimarpravesh@rediftrnail.com>
To; ATDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear forum members,
I am an individual associated with the field of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS from last
firstly as a counselor and then as a project coordinator. I sent in a paper to the
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I am writing this mail as a last option to try and get some help from the forum me
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that maybe interested in sponsoring me to attend the Conference and present my pap
My paper titled the Highway with TruckersDEis about my five-years experience work
a most difficult and potentially high-risk target group i.e. Truckers on STD/HIV/A
akrongly feel that my presentation would help and assist the international communi
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high-risk groups.
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] World AIDS week Activfles in Punjab
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 20:44:41 +0530
From: "Ashok Goel" <drashokgoell@rediflinail.com>
To: "aids-india" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
(WORLD AIDS WEEK DEC. 01-07, 20011
The first aids day of 21st century is unique in the sense, that the AIDS
Awareness has now moved from highlighting the problem symbolizing a monster,
BAKASURA, NAKASURA or Dinosaur, to care as the theme of WORLD AIDS DAY 2001
is
' I Care,,, Do You?"
To commemorate World AIDS Day, Peoples Health organisation, Punjab organised
a rally of cars , scooters and pedestrians involving medical teachers,
students and staff of Govt. Medical College, DAV college for women, Hindu
Sabha School and Hindu College.
The rally was flagged off from the Medical College by Sh. BR Banga,
Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Amritsar and Chief Patron of P.H.o
Punjab. He was accompanied by Dr. OP Mahajan, Principal Medical College, Dr.
AS Sandhu, Civil Surgeon, Dr. Renu Goel, Corporator and Patron, P.H.O,
Punjab, Dr. SP Dewan, President, P.H.O, Punjab and Dr. Ashok Goel,
Secretary General, P.H.o, Punjab, /mother scooter rally was flagged off from
Hindu College by Principal Mr. RC Verma. A rally was flagged off by Sh.
Dharamvir Dhawan, principal , Hindu Sabha school at 10,00 a,m today,
The 3 rallies reached the BBK DAV College for women where Principal Mrs.
J.Kackaria received the rallyists.
Addressing the rally, Sh. HR Banga, Chief Patron said the AIDS ahareness Dai
creates awareness amongst the masses throughout the world. This awareness
must reach the grass root level especially amongst the slums, rural areas
and ignorant and illiterate poor of this district, state and country. He
appealed to the students to prepare "NUKKAP. NATAKS", PLAYS AND SKITS
relevant to Punjabi culture so that the message regarding HIV AND AIDS can
be clearly given. He appealed to all sections of society in Amritsar tc
attend "LAMP LIGHTING" under "RED RIBBON”, an International symbol of "I
CARE FOR HIV/ AIDS" at Nehru Complex, Lawrence road Amritsar on 5th Dec.
2001 from 6 pm onwards. Individuals are requested to come and light a candle
to show their concern and care for victims of HIV/AIDS.
Dr, OP Mahajan, Principal Said that HIV/ AIDS IS the largest public health
problem and without the active involvement of society as a whole , nothing
tangible can be achieved.
Dr. Ashok Goel and Dr. SP Dewan presented 200 complimentary copies or a book
in Punjabi on HIV AND AIDS written by Dr. Ashok Goel and Dr. SS Deepti tc
Principal Mrs. J .Kackaria for staff and students .
Patron of Punjab , PHO Dr. Renu Goel said that the Red Ribbon
is an
International Symbol of AIDS Awareness , a symbol of respect for those who
have died of AIDS of concern for those living with it , and reminder to us
of the constant need to keep up the fight against AIDS. It is also a Symbol
of how great achievements begin with small action . Red Ribbon was given to
every rallyist by PHO. The rallyists were carrying placards of the theme of
WORLD AIDS DAY i.e." I Care.Do You?" The red ribbon came into being in 1992
as the idea of small HIV charity in New York. It is a symbol of AIDS
Awareness and people who wear it show their support through speaking up and
taking action on Hiv and AIDS,
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The girls of D.A.V College performed a skit on the theme of aids prevention.
or, sp Dewan wniis aoaressing tne rally appealed to tne people to discuss
Hiv/ AIDS prevention with their friends and family members to create
awareness. He further asked students to lead a pure marital life with single
life partner or use condom for safety.
World AIDS week Activites in Puniab
12/3/01 11:59 AM
secretary
General PEG Punjab Ct. Ashok Goel demanded to create a new
ministry of aids
t-o save India from devastation as faced, by Africa and.
Western countries. He urged Govt. or Punjab to abolish sales tax On drug’s ,
kits and equipment concerned with care of victims of hiv AND AIDS. Mrs. J.
Kacnaria
Dr. SK Malhotra,- Dr. Ml Gambhir anti a student Miss sakshi Parinar
also spoke on Aids .
Dr. Ashok Goel
E-mail: <drashokgoell@redittmaii.com>
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Date; 1 Dec 2001 13:42:52 -0000
From: AIDS-INDLA@yahoogroups.coni
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Welcome to AIDS-INDIA eFORUM
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)S-INOIA] Campaign for affordable medicines for AIDS
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Campaign for affordable medicines for AIDS
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 23:12:11 +0500
From: ashok ran <freedom@bgl.vsnl.net. in>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yalioogroups.coni
DECCAN HERALD : Saturday, December 1, 2001
Campaign for affordable medicines for Aids
By Michael Patrao
DH News Service
BANGALORE, Nov 30
On the occasion of World Aids Day on December 1, a group of individuals and
organisations have come together to launch a nationwide campaign for making
available affordable medicines and treatment for all. In Bangalore the
campaign will be launched by Freedom Foundation and Samraksha, NGOs engaged
in the field of Hiv/Aids, Alternative Law Forum and Karnataka Network of
^>sitive People (KNP+), at Vidhana Soudha during a Aids rally at 3 pm.
Bnis campaign plans to lay special emphasis on access to Hiv/Aids medicines
for- opportunistic infections (OIs) and Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART).
People with Hiv/Aids can prolong their lives with the help of these
medicines, which are already very expensive (minimum of Rs 1,800 per month
for ART). New medicines for the treatment of HIV/AIDS are going to be even
uIOj?© eApSriSlVc .
According to Mr Ashok K Rau, co-founder of Freedom Foundation,
Bangalore-based NGO engaged in the area of Hiv/Aids if we do not stand up
against Trade P.elated Intellectual Property (Trips) now, many more lives
will be lost to this epidemic.
Indian law will soon undergo change because India is a signatory to the
international agreement on Trips. This change will have a huge impact on
the Indian patent law, which protects the invention of new products.
The 'process patentDEsystem used in India so far will be replaced by a more
restrictive 'product patentDEsystem. Foreign pharmaceutical companies will
have sole rights to determine the production, distribution and pricing and,
therefore, availability of new medicines. It is feared that such a
bcituation will raise the prices of new medicines to amounts that are
ninaffordable to most Indians, he said.
Mr Rau says that the campaign is launched since the Indian government has
not responded to this urgent issue. More and more people are getting affected or a
and the government has to take a pro-active stand, he adds.
Elsewhere in the country many individuals and organisations working in the
areas of Hiv/Aids will campaign for affordable medicines.
They include Delhi Network of Positive People, Lawyers Collective Hiv/Aids
unit (Delhi), Manipur Network of People Living with Hiv/Aids, Care
Foundation (Manipur), Maharashtra Network of Positive People (MNP+),
Mumbai, Network of Maharashtra for Positive People (Pune), Positive People
Goa, Indian Network of Positive People (Chennai).
Mr Rau says that the prevention activity of the Government doesn't seem to
make a major impact as more people are testing positive with a conservative
official estimate of four million people in the country and nearly 10,000
reported cases in Karnataka. These figures, however, are a gross-underestimate and the figure could be as high as eight to 10 million
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12/4/01 10:39 AM
says in Karnataka, Udupi and Mangalore are emerging as centres were
highest incidence of HIV positive cases are reported. Until recently
Be-Llary, where Freedom Foundation has set up a centre, reported the highest
incidence.
As many as 412 people have reported positive in Udupi and Mangalore area,
but the actual figures could be as high as 1,000. The Foundation is planning to se
Hiv/Aids treatment centre very soon.
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Discussion on National Health Policy
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 11:36:19 -0700
From: Rajan Gupta <rajan@lanl.gov>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
To: AlDS-INDLA.@yalioogroups.coDi
To the moderator.
I had posted my comments on India's National Helath Policy 2001 about 8
weeks back. There was call lor a discussion to be held on this policy on
this forum.
In the last few days I have received a number of e-mail, I presume,s
responding to my comments the National Health Policy 2001. These tiles
had a virus and our fire wall eliminates them (so it is not even clear
to me what the files contained, I am just guessing at the contents from
the subject header). My replies to the e-mail addresses from where the
comments came from bounced with user unknown! So I cannot get in touch
with the senders.
I am enclosing my comments again in case the original message somehow
got corrupted with a virus. Perhaps you can repost my note and send out
another call for comments? I feel it is very important to initiate a
debate about the NHP 2001 — if the policy it self is so lacking, how
can we expect any credible intervention.
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Best
rajan
The Ministry of Health S F. A. is in the process of formulating a new
Health Policy. The Draft National Health Policy has been put together as part
of a consultative process involving Civil Society, Specialists in various
disciplines, Various Govt departments, the Private Sector and others.
It has been suggested that The New Draft Document be put up on the web
site of the Ministry for a further consultative process. Those
interested can access the same on their site
http://mohfv7.nic.in/np2001 .htm you can also give in your valuable
input to Ms. Urvashi Sadhwani (Addl.Eco. Adviser) at email:
aeabop@nb.nic.in
COMMENTS ON THE National Health Policy 2001
BY RAJAN GUPTA (rajan@lanl.gov)
The National Health Policy 2001 aims to be a comprehensive document that
sets out to provide a new policy framework for accelerated achievements
of Public Health goals. On reading the draft I find the following
deficiencies.
1) The document provides no information on the budget for various
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categories of health services of the central government or of the states.
feel that t is essential that a table showing past and anticipated future
budgets for all states and center be provided. Without such information it
is not possible to judge the feasibility of proposed goals.
The document provides no information on the number of primary,
secondary, and tertiary medical centers in both the public and
private sector. We request data for each state and UT.
3) The docimsnt spaats about opening more medical colleges in areas that
are under-represented. Unfortunately, it does not discuss adequately the
reality that more and more of even the established medical colleges
are failing — loosing their best faculty members, are teaching
outdated procedures, do not have adequate funds for practical training, and
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granting degrees. In such an environment, it would serve the nation
more to upgrade the existing institutions rather than create more
mediocre or tailing ones.
4? The NEP-2001 does nut 6E'tu!?li£’li Clear priority IGf o YaCCindtiOii
program for all citizens. The minimal acceptable is vaccination against MMfc,
DPT, polio, and Hepatitis B using quality vaccines.
5) The document mentions HIV/AIDS in passing, while it has a separate
section on providing medical facilities to users from overseas. This
shows the clear misunderstanding or priorities for public financed
health. This jumbling of priorities suggests that the government,
in spite of its rhetoric, does not appreciate the threat posed by
HIV/aids. My interactions with many thousands of people show that proper
knowledge of HIV/AIDS is highly lacking even amongst the literate and denial is
very common. Furthermore, even those who have some information, they have
not understood how to use this information to change behavior — due
to lack of money, empowerment, or simply fatalism, Also, along with
HIV/AIDS the growing threat of IB and especially mdr Tuberculosis has
to be addressed.
6) while hiv/aids is mentioned a couple of times, the document
completely ignores Hepatitis B and C crises. Current estimates suggest 4 million
cases of HIV/AIDS, 15-20 million of Hepatitis C, and 60-80 million of
Hepatitis B. Today many hospitals are seeing as many cases of
failing/failed livers in people in their late thirties and forties as they are of HIV
patients. The tragedy is that, except for select private blood banks,
the national blood supply in public institutions is still not being
tested for Hepatitis C. The NHP-2001 is completely silent on thia
issue»
7) The document, mentions better monitoring of private health
centers. It fails to specify how it intends to monitor them since
its record of monitoring public hospitals, roadside clinics,
alternate medicine centers, and pharmacists is abysmally poor.
S) The document attributes most of the blame for failing PHC on the lack
of a steady supply of drugs. The reality is that a large fraction of
PHC have failed because doctors assigned to them do not show up or
have set up private practices sometimes right next to the PHC. Also,
the nursing staff and doctors are profiting from the sale of drugs
on the black market and thus creating an artificial shortage.
Furthermore, they are also involved in kick-backs from
pharmaceutical companies, and in schemes where drugs are not
delivered even though money is paid. Thus, without effective monitoring and
accountability in the system, creating more PHC will just enlarge the
problem.
The government should, over time, consolidate their bloated PHC staff
into the functioning PHCs (Even though many states have prepared
lists of PHC that function and those that do not, they still keep pouring
money into the failed ones, i.e., into the pockets of the corrupt).
Turning over the failed phc to NGOs and philanthropic institutions, along with the funds
earmarked for these PHCs, will lead to better services. If outright handing over of the PHCs
is not acceptable, then at least the running and monitoring of the PHCs should be handed over
to NGOs and philanthropic institutions.
9)
10)
The document completely ignores the existing huge problem of alcohol
and drug addiction. Recognizing that de-addiction is a very costly,
lengthy, and failure ridden process,
the NHP-2001 should have a very
clear plan on how to address this issue, The present policy or the
government — of implicitly encouraging alcohol use in order to
collect taxes — is shameful and will lead’to a dis-functional labor force
in the near future. The growing menace of an already huge drug abuse
problem is being ignored. The silence of the NHP-2001 on this issue is
consistent with reports that those in power are often involved (directly or
indirectly) in the trafficking of drugs.
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11)
The need for mental health care is enormous.
It is estimated that
there are 7 million people with severe psychiatric disability and 22
million more that need psychiatric care. To take care of these,
India has only 3500 mental health professionals I When one adds
the burden of alcohol and drug abusers to the psychiatric patients,
the scale of the problem becomes obvious, kittle wonder that the
government turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against
the mentally ill (including burning inmates chained to trees in
Erwadi, TN, a so called progressive state).
12) There is no mention of the growing epidemic of abortions as the
leading method of birth control because of the refusal of the government to
discuss safe methods of contraception in schools and colleges, and
making these methods (pills, IUDs, condoms) available. This is
presumably the responsibility of the non-existent Public Health system.
NHP-2001 needs to address this issue.
13)
Lack of education on male and female reproductive health and
sexually transmitted diseases in schools and colleges has made
containment of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, and other STDs
difficult. The NHP-2001 does not adequately address this issue
nor doss it- recommend the appropriate size of funds required to
implement this.
14)
The division of responsibility between the state and central
governments is being used as a cover to deny responsibility
by both. The original intent was that such a division would provide
better coverage by making people closer to particular conditions
in charge. The reality is a non-existing system in many states.
The NHP-2001 does not adequately address this problem.
15) THE NHP-2001 is completely silent on the issue of emotional,
physical and sexual abuse of children. Given the magnitude of the problem,
the devastation it causes to the victims, and its connections to
addictions and risky behavior (leading to HIV and Hepatitis infections), this
issue has to be addressed.
CONCLUSION;
It is with much sorrow that I conclude that NHP-2001 is an attempt at
writing an eloquent but empty paper document that fails to address
many issues that should be priorities. It reads like a "business as
usual” plan whereas the nation is faced by many simultaneous pandemics
and is totally lacking a publich health system. It does not address
the magnitude of the problem nor does it underscore the urgency' for
massive intervention. In fact it essntially ignores the crisies —
Hiv/AIDS and the growth in MDR TB, Hepatitis B and C, addictions to
alcohol and drugs, and mental health.
•
NHP2001 assumes that a system that has not delivered over the last 5C
years will suddenly start working by miracle, nor does it provide any
believable implementation plans to counter the known failures. For
example, it is hard for me to believe that if potable water and
sanitation is not available to a significant fraction of the
population, one will be able to eradicate Malaria and other vector and
water borne diseases by 2010 — one needs only to look at any slum in
any part of India to see the obvious lack of planning or facilities
for water and sanitation.
So, while NHP-2001 recognizes that India today has a failed public
health care system resulting in a health crisis and is faced with many
simultaneous unchecked pandemics, the new policy does not give any
confidence that- health is finally a priority with the national
planners and leaders. The proposed public funding is too small, and
there are no new ideas that address the widespread corruption anc
inefficiency — the core reasons tor inefficient utilization of
12/3/0111:35 AM
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[AIDS-INIJiaj SAATHH website
SubjecS: [AIDS-INDIA] SAATMH website
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:14:12 -0000
From: anilph7@\'ahoo.«Hn
To: AIDS-INT2IA@yahoogroups.com
Hi,
Today, on world AIDS day, SAATHH has started a new initiative, A
website will be developed to provide networking between the government
and non-qovernment organizations in India, Among the major goals for
this initiative will be to provide referrals in India and an
information clearing house for health care providers and the
clinicians. Besides these, there will be a repository of resources and
materials on HIV/AIDS, information on all the relevant events in India
and outside, information on HIV and other services provided by all the
organizations that become a part of this initiative and
research/training/funding information.
The initial steps of registration of domain name, creating a home page
and hosting that home page have all been completed. Please take some
time to look at the home page at www.saathii.org. Since thia home page
is still under construction, any advice/comments will be welcome. All
the tags on the home page currently display a page notifying that it
is under construction.
At this time, we estimate to have a working website with lots of
relevant content in the net four to six weeks. We will notify you when
the website is launched.
Subha Raghavan/Anil Hingorani/Vinod Chandanani
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[AIE^S-INEjIA] HIV/AIDS-INDlAiWliv i? Responsible?
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] HD7.AIDS-INDU:Who is Responsible?
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 22:11:21
From: "kala ran" <kalaiw@jnantramail.com--To: AIDS-INDLA@yahoogroups.com
HIV/AIDS: Who is Responsible?
Bangalore, November 29, 2001: In 1981, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the
fatal disease it causes, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), emerged in what then
appeared to be a series of discrete epidemics among certain populations in specific parts
of the world. Today, the virus continues to spread through much of the world at a pace
that outstrips efforts to control it. The HIV/AIDS pandemic now affects men, women and
children in nearly every populated region on earth. A disease that began as a public
health crisis affecting millions of people has now evolved into a force that threatens the
social, economic and political development and stability of entire nations.
The Hutld Health Organization (0HO) began Organizing a response to HIV/AIDS lit 1986 and
launched a global strategy to fight the disease a year later. Since then, the world health
community, governments and other international agencies have contributed significant
technical and financial resources to support the battle against HIV/AIDS, but these
resources have not been sufficient to meet the continuing global challenge. Everyday, the
number of HIV infections increases and the pool of resources available to fight the
disease diminishes.
In 1991, WHO reported twelve million HIV infections worldwide; today the total has
increased to 36 million. Ninety percent of these infections will have been sexually
transmitted, most as a result of heterosexual intercourse. Specific behaviors, common in
all parts of the world speed the spread of HIV. However, the vast majority of infections
has and will continue to occur among people in developing countries least able to mount
the programs needed to prevent and control the disease.
HIV/AJDS has attacked the developing world at a time when decades of investment in social
and economic development is beginning to yield results. In India, precious gains have been
made in child survival rates and adults are living longer and healthier lives. In otherareas, a better-educated work force has increased the potential for foreign investment and
the expansion of manufacturing and services sector industries. HIV/AIDS threatens to halt
or reverse many of these gains; in fact it already has in some areas. According to the
latest report to Congress on the USAIDS Program, A.IDS has become the leading killer of
children in some developing countries. The disease has already severely impacted the work
force in many countries and has led to the withdrawal of planned foreign investment in
others.
in India, economy is fragile, technical teficutcec are limited and governmental
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number of people infected with HIV or suffering with aids.
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common in India and individuals are dependent upon these families for many aspects of
their well being. Although such communities have a long tradition of caring for the ill,
the enormous financial burden and too-frequent stigmatisation associated with caring for
people with AIDS have ripped families and communities apart. Those families, who do not
turn over the care, of the ill to strangers face increased poverty as they lose the income
of both the patient and the person who cares for them.
Fear, lack of knowledge, limited resources and weak institutional capabilities have
combined to facilitate the spread of HIV in the developing world. Although the world may
have been alow to understand and respond to this disease and its future implications, much
important work has been done and many successful disease interventions have been tested.
The world health community has recognised the need to temper fear with knowledge, defined
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interventions to prevent the spread of HIV. However, currently available resources fall
far shott of what is needed to apply what has been learned on a large enough scale to
effectively impact the pandemic.
> Cooperative efforts are needed. No nation or international organization can successfully
shoulder the burden alone. The resource gap must be filled through the collective efforts
of the public and private sectors at local, national and international levels. Government,
private enterprise, religious institutions, private voluntary organizations, international
service organisations, community-based groups and private philanthropy must assume the
responsibilities of leadership and seize this opportunity to improve the human condition.
Ashok K. Rau
The Freedom Foundation-India
Bangalore, Eellary, Mangalore, Udipi and Hyderabad
Source:
www.youandaids.org
Mr. Ashok K. Rau could be contacted at freedom@bgl.vsnl.net.in or ashokrau@hotmail.com)
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] TOGETHER WE BUILT A BETTER COMMUNITY ! - Who is
Responsible?
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:32:13 +0530
From: "Avnish Jolly" <avnish@ch.sps.org.in>
To: "Love And AIDS Group" <loveandaids@yahoogroups.com>
TOGETHER WE BUILT A BETTER COMMUNITY 1 - Who is Responsible?
The FIRST AIDS DAY of 21st century is unique in the sense, that the AIDS
Awareness has now moved from highlighting the problem symbolizing a monster,
to care as the theme of FOURTEENTH WORLD AIDS DAY 2001 is
' 1 Care... Do You?
AIDS knows no favourites and it kills males, females, rich or old and
children of all races and communities. It kills without conscience and
without remorse. December 1 is the World's AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency
Syndrome) Day. According to a UN report: "Asia faces the threat of 'major,
generalised epidemic' of AIDS, driven by unsafe sex, intravenous drugs and
tainted blood."
The ignorance of people make them shun AIDS victims. People have to learn
that touching, kissing, eating, sharing the same toilet seat with AIDS
patient will not infect to them. Similarly, children with AIDS will not
infect their classmates. By now every one knows that those who indulge
themselves in unsafe sex and frequent changing of sex partners, use
unsterilised needles and get infected blood acquire AIDS. The main role of
the community is to counsel people. The one who is HIV positive has to learn
his responsibilities.
In 1981,HIV and the fatal disease it causes, AIDS, emerged in what then
appeared to be a series of discrete epidemics among certain populations in
specific parts of the world. Today, the virus continues to spread through
much of the world at a pace that outstrips efforts to control it. The
HIV/AIDS pandemic now affects men, women and children in nearly every
populated region on earth. A disease that began as a public health crisis
affecting millions of people has now evolved into a force that threatens the
social, economic, political and religious development and stability of the
World.
The World Health Organization began organizing a response to HIV/AIDS in
1986 and launched a global strategy to fight the disease a year later. Since
then, the world health community, governments,NGOs and other international
agencies have contributed significant Moral, motivational, technical and
financial resources to support the battle against HIV/AIDS, but these
resources have not been sufficient to meet the continuing global challenge.
Everyday, the number of HIV infections increases and the pool of resources
available to fight the disease diminishes.
In 1991, WHO reported twelve million HIV infections worldwide; today the
total has increased to 36 million. Ninety percent of these infections will
have been sexually transmitted, most as a result of heterosexual
intercourse. Specific behaviours, common in all parts of the world speed the
spread of HIV. However, the vast majority of infections has and will
continue to occur among people in developing countries least able to mount
the programs needed to prevent and control this developing disaster.
HIV/AIDS has attacked the developing world at a time when decades of
investment in personal, social and economic development is beginning co
yield results. In India, precious gains have been made in child survival
rates and adults are living longer and healthier lives. In other areas, a
better-educated work force has increased the potential for foreign
investment and the expansion of manufacturing and services sector
industries. HIV/AIDS threatens to halt or reverse many of these gains; in
fact it already has in some areas. According to the latest report to
Congress on the USAIDS Program, AIDS has become the leading killer of
children in some developing countries. The disease has already severely
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impacted the work force in many countries and has led to the withdrawal of
planned foreign investment in others.
Tn India, economy is fragile, technical resources are limited and
governmental infrastructure, policy positions and service systems are weak
or unstable. We already know, for example, that no health care system
currently existing in India or the developing world will be able to manage
or provide care for the continually increasing number of people infected
with HIV or suffering with AIDS. Community must join hands and support the
existing resources and create tolerance.
HIV/AIDS also batters the supporting social structures of a world. Extended
families are common in India and individuals are dependent upon these
families for many aspects of their well being. Although such communities
have a long tradition of caring for the ill, the enormous financial burden
and too-frequent stigmatisation associated with caring for people with AIDS
have ripped families and communities apart. Those families, who do not turn
over the care, of the ill to strangers face increased poverty as they lose
the income of both the patient and the person who cares for them.
Fear, lack of knowledge, limited resources and weak corporate capabilities
have combined to facilitate the spread of HIV in the developing world.
Although the world may have been slow to understand and respond to this
disease and its future implications, much important work has been done and
many successful disease interventions have been tested. The world community
has recognised the need to temper fear with knowledge, defined the resources
needed to impact the epidemic in specific countries and developed
interventions to prevent the spread of HIV. However, currently available
resources fall far short of what is needed to apply what has been learned on
a large enough scale to effectively impact the pandemic.
Cooperative efforts are needed. No nation or international organization can
successfully shoulder the burden alone. The resource gap must be filled
through the collective efforts of the public and private sectors at local,
national and international levels. Government, private enterprise, religious
institutions, private voluntary organizations, international service
organizations, community-based groups and private philanthropy must assume
the responsibilities of leadership and seize this opportunity to improve the
human condition.
Although there has been mounting pressure on school education system for the
introduction of sex related matters in the curriculum, there is a lot of
variation in the conceptualisation of this educational area. Different
concepts like sex education, family life education, reproductive health
education and poverty education have been used to describe the nature of
this area. And even these concepts have been defined differently.
I believes in GLOBAL Healthy Relationship, in fact anything that you want to
make a point
about at International level for the betterment and benefit of the Society
at Universal Level for
Holistic Development.
I am thank full to you for becoming a part of this movement. Let us Come
forward and work
together and share our experiences. I request to my fellow friend, to
motivate like minded friends who are interested and willing to serve the
community at holistic level.
J am always here to share my experiences with you and for my
orientation also. I shall also be grateful to you if you could motivate
the community to work for Rehabilitation of People Living With HIV/AIDS.
With great hopes from the GLOBAL COMMUNITY,
I remain your comrade in arms against this menace of AIDS.
Dr. Avnish Jolly
i AIDS.INDIA] TOGETHER WE BUILT A B... COMMUNITY ! - Who is Responsible?
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I \IOS-1XDIA] AIDS will bring down GNP
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] AIDS will bring down GNP
Date: Tue. 04 Dec 2001 06:03:08 -0000
From: drrajashekarpalleti@usa.net
To: AlDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
AIDS will bring down GNP
October 23, 2001:
The winner of this year's Commonwealth Award for comprehensive care
of HIV patients, Ashok Rau of the Freedom Foundation, India, says
AIDS is not just a health problem but a development issue.
The foundation is among the 12 winners from 52 Commonwealth countries
for action on AIDS. The 72 entrants for the prestigious award were
from countries like Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Trinidad
and Tobago, Uganda and United Kingdom.
Freedom_Eoundation set up in 1992 has helped 5,000 AIDS patients so.
far, out of which..14.6 _p.atients have died peacefully. "Since the
prevention aspect does not have tangibility, we~fbcus on care and
support," says Ashok, the founder of the organization, who received
the award in Melbourne on October 4.
He cites cases of heads of companies, college students, children and
groups of people from families testing HIV positive in recent days at
the Bangalore centre. "AIDS will brinq.._do.wn the GNP. .in .20.0.5-2010. by
15 per cent, so we should understand the enormity of the epidemic in
India," he says.
Ashok likes to describe Freedom Foundation as the Shoppers' Stop for
AIDS patients, "with all facilities including legal under one roof."
The legal and structural shifts initiated by the foundation include
changes to property-ownership laws that discriminate against women
and the mainstreaming of AIDS in the health sector.
The foundation is considered a replicable, low-cost, community
centered model for meeting the needs of people infected and affected
by HIV.
Dr Neal Blewett, the former Australian Minister for Health announced
at the Melbourne awards ceremony: "nearly 60 per cent of HIV
positive people live in the Commonwealth countries, and half of all
AIDS deaths have been in Commonwealth member countries." Ashok adds
that according to reliable statistics the number of AIDS patients in
India is four million today.
The New Delhi-based Naz foundation was also one of the award winners
for prevention of AIDS, this year.
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[AIDS-INDIA1 Quality of blood screening
Thu. 6 Dec 2001 08:53:44 +0100
"John Nivard" <jnivard@multiweb.nl>
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Dear forum members.
I am in the process of contacting the responsible person's for the "national external quality assurance program in the
bloodscreening laboratories" within the National AIDS Control Organisation Ministry' of Health & Family Welfare,
Candralok Building. vth floor, 36-janpath, New Delhi - 110001 INDIA.
I need this information to speed up our AIDS prevention project in bloodscreening laboratories. Can some one help
me to get in contact with the appropriate people. 1 did send the following letter but no response until now.
Copy of the letter
Dear Sir,
From the SFAWP T see INDIA is launching a national external quality assurance program in the bloodscreening
laboratories. I am veny pleased to hear of this project and I am convinced that our service can help you with your
project. 1 am ottering mv help and our service to facilitate your project. To addapt our service to your standards we
would like to have a copy of the technical manuals you prepared for the HIV testing laboratories. A greate help will
be a e-mail list of the participating laboialories.
Introduction
First of all I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is John Nivard a independent expert in the field of
information processing in bloodbanking. I made my carrier as a information Technology and Communication expert
in the field of medical information processing. If have designed, build and managed large scale information systems,
operation systems and database systems. I have worked as a IT manager of the Central Laboratory of the Blood
transfusion Services of the Dutch Red Cross and became a expert in automation and data processing in the field of
blood banking and blood transfusion
medical trials and laboratory'-information systems. I was for a long period member of the ISBT Working Party' on
Automation and Data Processing and several national organizations. Currently I am a independent consultant adviser
I have developed a internet service named "www.GlobalQualityServices.com" specially geared to the quality control
and quality' assurance of bloodscreenmg laboratories ( see the detailed description below ). From the start the sendee
is designed and build with the state of the art products and the internet in mined. The complete internet based sendee
can be of interest by setting up a icgional or national reference laboratory for lire quality assurance of bloodscreening
laboratories in the developing countries.
The sendee is direct available for use for every' bloodbank or transfusion sendee with a access to internet.
Access to the internet is preferably ones a day. The service supplies a information service only. A group of
bloodbanks, a National or regional reference laboratory, a research group or a supplier of reagents can use the
service to set up a proficiency program or use the service for monitoring the outcome of runcontrols of a group of
bloodscreenmg laboratories. Because the economy of scale your costs are reduced to a minimum, no IT staff and
infrastructure is involved, no additional software is required, no investments in money' and IT projects. The only
lequiicmenis arc a internet connection and a standard web brouwsei. You can deploy the application in a national or
international context direct from the start.
Currently we are active in setting up a project in INDIA involving several bloodbanks (see the description blow ).
The project named AIDSTNDTA is in the starting up phase and is using the service (see project description below)
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from the blood screening markers in a classical "Shewart Control Chart" and "Cumulative distribution" format.
Becouse the multicenrer setting you are able to observe the observations of the participants while maintaining the
pnonvmitv and the source of the data. Global Quality Services maintains a international accessible database for
bloodscrccning laboratories. By the law of large numbers ( Chebyshev's inequality) the period between the start of
the deviation and tlie
moment of demcr.no and signalling a deviation will decrees. GQS has added data entry' screens for nearly suppliers
of icageiils. We will make the service avaiilable in other developing countries nee of any charges and we are in the
process of applying for external hinds and other support.
I hope you or your staff member will contact my
Waiting for your reply,
J Nivard
VisionFaclory
Slimdijk 1 1631 DB
Oudendijk NH
The Netherlands
jn ivard@mul tiweb.nl
1-Project description AIDS INDIA project
1.1 Goal:
Monitoring the quality7 of the bloodscreening by plotting the outcome of the runcontrols from tire
screening markers in a classical "Shewart Control Chart" and "Cumulative distribution" format.
Becouse the multicenter setting you are able to observe the observations of the participants while
maintaining the anonymity and the source of the data. Global Quality Services maintains a international
accessible database for bloodscreening laboratories. GQS has added data entry7 screens for nearly all
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1.2 Methods:
QC samples from the manufacturer or prepared by the laboratories are included in every run. Results
obtained from the QC samples including lotnumbers are entered in a international accessible database
and plotted in the classical Stewart control chart on a daily basis. Plotting the QC data allows to
observe trends towards a change in performance of the assay alerting them to potential problems.
1.3 Results
By a daily monitoring of all the runcontrols of all the assays of the routine screening of donors the
laboratories are able to detect a deviations in a early stage. For example a field upgrade of a laboratory
instrument, the introduction of a new lot of reagents etc. can effect the results. By the law of large
numbers a change will be detected in a early stage. By a systematic comparison of the bias and
variation in the assay results of the participating laboratories the organisation is able to detect the
source of the bias and or variability' in relationship with method used, instrument, reagent and procedure
while maintaining the anonymity and the source of the data. Sharing of the information with a direct
feedback including charts will stimulate the awareness of quality
1.4 Discussion
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To develop a own information service for this purpose is very difficult. While lack of understanding is one
reason, there is also the question of resourcing of funds, training and staffing. A internet based service
for Quality Control my overcome the basic problems and the availability of the results can stimulate the
quality of the bloodscreening processes and funding of improvement programs. Implementation or
development of a national or regional reference laboratory can be stimulated. Because the economy of
scale your costs are reduced to a minimum, no 11 staff and infrastructure is involved with the exception
of internet connection, no investments in money and IT projects. You can deploy the application in a
national or international context direct Horn the start. If nessasery the service can be implemented as a
complete in-house application. Because it is a multicenter set up you can see your observations
between the observations of the other laboratories while maintaining the anonymity and the source of the
data. You are able to study the outcome of the runcontrol in relationship with reagents-lornumbers,
runcontrol-lotnumer and or/instruments. By the law of large numbers ( Chebyshev's inequality) the period
between the start of the deviation and the moment of detecting and signalling a deviation will decrees.
Y ou are able to start your own quality' control circle. At membership processing you are able to define a
new group or you request a membership of a existing group. A proficiency test provider or National
Rcfeience or regional icfeieuce laboiaiory can start his own group and can use the service to collect the
data from the participating bloodscreening laboratories. In addition he can using GlobalQualityServices
to automate his complete business process starting with the invitation to his custommers to participate
in a proficiency program to the online statistical analysis and hilling The statistical request are direct
executed and the Shewart Control Chart and performance chart are online direct available.
b Assumptions:
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-Global Quality Services is only in the role of information service piovider and facilitator of the process
-Participants are the organisers and carry out the process and are getting other participants involved
1.6 Organisation
-Laboratory involved in blood screening for transfusion arc organised in quality circles.
-Participants are active seeking contacts to get others involved
1.7 Runcontrols
QC samples from the manufacturer or prepared by the laboratories are included in every' run. Results
obtained from the QC samples including iotnumbers are entered in a international accessible database.
On request of the participant a "Control Chart" and/or "performance chart" is generated. A quick start is
the use of the runcontrol of the manufacturer of the test assay or the material of a national reference
organisation.
1.8 Data entry' templates
Data entry’ templates are available for : Abbott, Avicenna, Boehringer, Fujirebio, Innogenetics, Murex,
Organon Teknik, Ortho, Sanofi Pasteur Monoiisa, BAG, Biomerieux, Biotest AG, etc. For a complete
list of 200 data entry' templates access our product catalogue. On request we ill add new templates to
cover all suppliers of reagents.
1.9
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Participants are active seeking contacts to get others laboratories involved. Participants are organised in
regional quality’ circles Each circle is responsible for the distribution of the runcontrol/reference material.
The use of the runcontrol of the supplier of the reagent or the use of the reference material of a national
organisation is a option. You can start using the service in-house
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1.10 Costs involved
The information service for this project is free a off any charges. Tn the long term we will seek funds from
the EU or other organizations for the cost recovery. As a starting point you can use the service for your
own local blood bank'. In this case there are no out of pocket costs involved with the exception of the
costs you already made for the reference cample yon prepared by yourself or received from the
mauufacluiei of the reagents. External reference maleiial is also (commercial) available from National
reference laboratories or commercial organisations. In case you start a quality circle you have to take in
account some out of pocket costs for the distribution of the reference sample. The distribution costs
involve: transportation and packing material. In case you use external (commercial) reference samples
you have to take those cost into account
1.11 Logistical details
The oplaiumg, production, administration and distribution of reference samples are the responsibility of
the. members of the quality circle. Starting with a single bloodbank and scaling up to two or more will
give time to build a distribution network. Glob alQuality Services contains the procedures and product
catalogue for the ordering of the reference material from national or commercial organisations.
1.12 Statistical details "Shcwart Control Chart"
The control chart is a simple graphical device which is useful in keeping track of production quality.
"Control" implies that some static condition exist. If the quality does improve or change significantly we
say we have no longer control, and we depend upon our control chart to detect the change. On the
vertical axis we have a scale for observed values of the variable. On the horizontal axis we have a scale
for days, or time at which the sample was taken. A solid horizontal line is drawn through the expected
(assumed) value, and two parallel lines are drawn, one above and one below the solid line. We plot the
observed value of the sample and plot it in the chart. If the point is between the parallel lines we say that
the process is in control and take no further action. If the point is above the upper or below the lower line
we suy that the procedure is out of statistical control, and we attempt to find the factor which is causing
the exu erne observation. We wish file chance of asserting lack of control to be veiy small when the
static condition still exists. We control this chance by the distance between the parallel lines, the so
called Upper Control Limit and Lower Control Limit. In practice it is customary to use 3* Sigma / square
(N) as control lines. Tor a normal distribution these control lines give a 0,27% chance of deciding
erroneously that there is a lack of control The statistical method's applied have as a goal to detect
systematic deviations from deviations witch occur by chance. The control value's arc calculated from the
sample in the case that thev are not supplied by the user. Besides the statistical upper and lower
control limits you can specify a technical control limits. The technical control limits are determined
based on technical oi economical criteria and must be supplied by the usei.
1.13 Performance chart
The performance chart is a cumulative distribution chart of all observations. Your observations are plotted
against all other observations. The percentile score of the average value of your observations is marked.
1.14 Current status
Until now we have 8 reactions out of INDIA for our bloodscreening project (see project description). This
is a very’ good start for a long term blood screening quality project. Until now we have questions about
the following aspects: -costs involved, -logistical details,-statistical details.
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1.15 Invitation to participate
In case you are involved in the bloodscreening for transfusion you are invited to start using this services
free of any charges. To start using this service resister at http://www.Globa1QualityServices.com and
within 24 hours you can order a data entry template out of the online product catalogue (free of any
charges). You are able to start using the service for your own bloodbank and in addition you can use the
service with more added value in a regional or national context. The service is available in nearly all
coulries. We have now 8 members and 3 users starting to build the AIDS INDIA bloodsci ceiling
database. In case you are active involved in the screening of blood donations in a developing countrie
please register free of any charges at http://www.GlobalQualityServices.com. You will recieve a
username and password and access to the database. To get used to the service, access to a demo
version is supplied to
2 Description of the service www.GlobalQualitvServices.com
A complete new internet enabled application roi the proficiency test provider, monitoring of luncomrols
(external) variables and/or collecting data for research is available on the internet as a standard service:
-Portal infrastructure, a dynamic personalized website tailored to the need of the user
-Workflow processing, the complete business process of the provider captured in workflow steps
-Data entry, users can order a catalogue item including the data entry template's hc/she needs
-Publications, after the publication date users can query the data base including charts
Using this service you are able to collect data rapidly over the internet and distribute and publish the
results on line in a statistical chart and/report. Do you need a national or regional monitoring system for
your indicators in the field of healthcare, here it is easy to use and no complicated IT project involved. Do
us%'mnl vou^aA°3 sYstem *or Your research project or routine monitoring of runcontrols, her it is
es’&n your own data entry template direct for use.
2.1 The functions of the service include for example:
-user registration / ballot committee
-order processing (sample material, run controls, reagents and data entry templates and keys)
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-data entry and validation and personalization
-log of the input to the database
-data collecting (upload from voijr limcV
-disinbution (download a selection loimaiied foi youi own application)
-on line statistical analysis and reports including charts (summary.control charts, cum control chart.
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2.2 Requirements
The only requirements are a PC and a standard web brouwser. No additional software at the client site is
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2.3 I2em.on.ostration database
The service as available now contains all the functions necessary' for (national) proficiency testing.
monitoring of runcontrols (external) variables, research studies, calibration and qc of equipment and
reagents and technical support in the field. As a provider you are able to offer this service to your
custommers integrated with your own website Try it out now by ordering a data entry template and use
it in the demonstration database named NRL. The demonstration database is a example in the field of
bloodscreemng laboratories and contains predefined data entry templates for all suppliers of reagens.
Using the demo database you are able to enter data and add data poibts and to generate realtime a
shew aid control schar't and peifoiniance chart.
P.egister at the website : www.GlobalQualityServices.com or use our demo database by following the
steps i and 2 below:
step 1 go to the home page at: WWWfGlobalQualityScrviccs.Com and click Orders, hog in using tire
user name "Labi JNKL" and the password "LablblKL". Select the item from the catalogue and purchase
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Globed Quality Services is a high quality cioss industry services in the field of benchmarking /quality
assurance, quality' control. You are able to benchmark a product, service or organization in a national or
international context. Globa! Quality' Services is consolidating the measurable quantitative aspects of
quality knowledge in your organization and makes the knowledge available to ail the participants. The
service is direct available for use. You can deploy the application in a national or international context
direct from the start. There is no need for additional software at the client site. A standard up to date
web brouwser will do the job. The cost of ownership for you and your customers is reduced to a
minimum. Global Quality' Services is a cross industry' solution. Global Quality' Services is active in the
diffcienl fields oi indus'uy seclois like food, phaiinaceulicals, manufacturing, blood banking, transfusion,
medicine, agricultural, mineral and petrol. management and hospitals. This combined knowledge is to
your advantage. The standard service is global available. The service is based on the knowledge
collected in different sectors and industries. Using this information service you are able to speed up your
quality assurance and control projects in the field of bloodscreening laboratories Tn combination with the
availablity of commercial available reference samples from several sources you arc able to set up a
national qc program. Global Quality Services supplies only a information services. Using the model of
Application Service Provider
service is direct available for use. Because the economy of scale vour
ousts aie ieduced to a minimum, uo IT stall and inuasliueime is involved, no investments in lime, money
and IT projects. You can deploy the application in a national or international context direct from the start.
Global Quality Services as a specialized internet portal can compete with the generic statistical
products available to day. VisionFactory develops and implement complete innovative e-business
solutions based on Lotus Domino, the Lotus smartsuite and IBM WebSphere and if nesssery is working
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with respected partners.
waiting for your reply.
Kind regards,
j Nivai u
VisionFactory
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The Netherlands
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DS-INDIA] International migrants day
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] International migrants day
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:54:13 -rOOOO
From: "Rakhi Nair" <Raklunair@hormail.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.coni
Dear friends;
18th December 2001 is International Migrants Day. It is estimated that some
130 million people live outside their countries of origin.
Rakhi Nair
Director-Special Programmes
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12/11/01 9:59 AM
1I7S-INDIA] Social mobilisation trainers Manual
Subject: [AIDS-ENDLk] Social mobilisation trainers Manual
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 18:45:32 +0530
From: "Maheshs" <maheshs@mail.com.np>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear forum members
We are in the process of developing a Trainers Manual on Social Mobilisation for HIV/AIDS.
This manual is aimed to mid level programme managers or field programme managers. We would
appreciate any materials, experiences related to this is shared with us or guide us where to
look at for relevant information.
Best regards
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] The AIDS aid dilemma
Date: 12 Dec 2001 13:33:401ST
From: palieti rajashekar <drrajashekarpalleti@.usa.net>
To:
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Die Aids aid dilemma The UN’s global fund for HTV/Aids, TB and Malaria has $1.5bn to spend. But
does prevention or treatment have the greater claim? An opinion piece from the UK newspaper, The
Guardian. By Sarah Boseley, the Guardian's health editor and Liz McGregor, deputy comment editor.
Daily next year, a group of people - exactly who they will be is still being fought out - will decide how
to distribute the Sl.Sbn so far coiiected in the name of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's global fund
for HTV/Aids, TB and malaria. When the fund was launched, in the wake of the public uproar at the
snectacle of 39 pharmaceutical giants suing the South African government to prevent it importing
okaon medicines Aids activists were ecstatic. There was a. general assumption the fund would buy the
ailuicuOviidj diugS (ARv a) that Keep pcOpic With IITv aliVc in tile West dilu Without which IHV 111
.Africa is a dearh sentence. Since then, expectations, along with the contributions from rich nations to
the fund, have slumped. Kofi Annan said that SlObn a year was needed. In around nine months S1.5bn
has been raised And the word from donor government quarters is that Aids drugs are definitely not
the r,riorit’\ Clare Short, the TJJCs international development secretary, is one of the most influential
world leaders in tins died. Privately, she does not believe the fund should ever have been launched her view is that existing bilateral aid programmes can best tackie the problem. But since it exists, she is
clear that it must focus equally on three diseases, not one - TB and malaria as well as HIV/Aids. And
she firmly believes that the best way to tackle HIV/Aids is through prevention. She wants to see the
fund paying for condoms and microbicides, not expensive drugs. In many ways, her position is logical.
Most of the world s 40m people with HIV/Aids do not live in the rich west. It is not conceivable that
the fund couid raise enough to pay for drugs for ail, even at the rock-bottom price of $300 a patient a
year which the generic companies are asking for their copycat drugs (the patented versions cost
$10,000 a year). There is no cure for Aids, the argument runs, so the best bet is to stop people
developing it. The HIV virus, which causes .Aids, is now spread mostly through heterosexual sex,
which can be prevented by the use of a condom. If people understand this and act on it, the epidemic
can be haired. But, as the latest figures show, prevention does not appear to be working. Undoubtedly
more money spent on education and condoms would help but the primary obstacle appears to be
cultural. Of the 5m infected with HIV in 2001, 3.5m live in sub-Saharan Africa which, by and large, is
constituted of patriarchal societies where women have little control over their sexuality. The high
incidence of rape, frequently exacerbated by war; polygamy; the cultural pressure on women to bear
children early and often; their relative powerlessness in relation to men which makes it difficult for
them to insist on condoms - all conspire to allow the virus to run unchecked. Cultural change, the
empowerment of women to say no is the idealistic answer, but it takes decades, if not centuries. Some
3 m people are dying a year, leaving orphans in the streets, uneducated, unprotected, unfed and heading
for a iiiC of crime if not one day anger and terrorism, There is an urgent humanitarian need to stop the
deaths and to change attitudes, and there are those who say that offering treatment will do it. Most of
the 40m people living with HIV do not know they carry the virus. The stigma of Aids, coupled with the
knowledge that it is a death sentence means most would rather not know. NGOs .such as Medecins
cone Front ieres argue that treatment produces a change in behaviour. If people know that they will
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argument is economic: the drugs can, hopefully, provide another five to 10 years of healthy life: HIV
positive parents can nurture children to adulthood in that time: employees can remain economically
active. Teachers, health workers and other key professionals will be able to stay in their posts longer.
And hospitals will not be overwhelmed by repeated admissions for opportunistic infections by HIV
positive patients. And then there are the human rights of the 40m already infected. How can it be
ethical to write them oil? The biggest obstacle - apart from funds - to treating people with HIV/Aids in
poor countries is the lack of health care facilities. Many cities have more than adequate hospitals
where they could start using ARVs tomorrow, yet in some rural areas there is barely a basic clinic, a
doctor and a nurse. But a project in Haiti started by Harvard scientists found it was possible to
disseminate ARVs in the same way as TB drugs - a low key approach in w’nich community health
workers make an assessment of people's need for treatment without complicated blood tests, counsel
them and ensure they take their drugs within the necessary time frame. Gradually the obstacles to
ARVs for Africa's poor are being surmounted, but it will take courage and imagination for the global
fund to hand out money for poor countries to spend on drugs. Politics is a farther obstacle. The US,
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3sQND«A1 AIDS WAR: WHO IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK?
Subject; [ATDS-TNDTAl AIDS WAR: WHO TS ON THE RIGHT TRACK?
Bate: Tuc, 11 Dee 2001 12:25:32 +0530
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Sharmistha Chatterjee
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(Mumbai Times. Times of India. D^cembe^ 1; 2001)
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nave done little gooo as rhe scare continues to have hign numbers or
HiV-positive patients. Although NGOs receive over Rs.10 billion m tunding,
from overseas (30 percent) and the Central Government (70 percent), barely
10-20 percent of the money is used. Gross misappropriation has prompted the
social wino of rho National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) to set up
Even though 2.5 percent of Mumbai's population suffers from AiDS, experts
reel the figures tne figures are grossly unaer-reported due to absence of a
recording system. Actual figures could be double the projected figures, say
exberts. The larae number of AIDS cases has prompted the mushrooming of NGOs
in Mumbai already. Two years ago there were only about 50.
of Grant Medical College, "The existence of so many NGOs
arc- doing a lot of work. Only 20 porccn
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constructive work. Most of the funds are used for other purposes. ’ This view
is echoed by a cop NACO officer.
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Considered fashionable thing to do, people are very quick to associate
themselves with NGOs fiahtinq the disease. "Te battle against AIDS has
attained a glamorous status and it means big money," says Dr.Aravind J Shah
^■nior medical officer, STD Clinic (Asha project). "Most NGOs confine
unemsolves to seminars and dinners restricted to an elite circle."
Besides, it is extremely easy to get registered as an AIDS NGO with NACO,
wnicn ensures easy availability or funds. Various societies are set up like
the Maharashtra AIDS Society and Mumbai Districts AIDS Soceity, to
facilitate raisina of funds. In addition, the lack of monitorina encouraaes
fly-by-night operators. Says Dr.Jairaj G.Thanekar. director of the
successful BMC-run Asha Project "How m?.nv NGOs would. a.ctuallv work for the
poor if funds •-•orc not cosily available? We face severe shortage of funds,
with people shunning tertiary health care centers due to tne stigma attached
with HIV, NGOs can play a pivotal role in the battle against AIDS. This
would reauire a collaborative and focused aboroach. Savs Thanekar, "Together
with the public health care system, NGOs should work towards bringing about
2. positive behavioral change m people end. providinc comprehensive
package. Both aspects are being completely overlooked." ‘
The benefits of this approach have already been witnessed, out these
positive contributions nave been tarnished oy otner NGOs. According to
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some SGOs don't do their joo. But it's wrong to point ringers at all NGOs as
some provide excellent services which go unrecognized." This view is shared
by Dr.Maninder Setia, of Lokmanya Tilak Hospital: "NGOs have proved very
useful, especially when it comes to counseling patients. This compliments
the public health ca-ro system.
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D'S-INDIA] Manipur to close AIDS Projects '
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Manipur to close .UDS Projects
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:02:15 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <janiworld@vsnl.com>
Rcply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
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Firpfiaht against. Aids wrapped in red tape
The Statesman 12th December,
2001 Now Delhi
raanipur observed world Aids Day on IDecemoer with fanfare but ground action to combat Aids is
m jeopardy. According to data collected till August, Aids-related deaths stand at 186 and
confirmed cases at 997 with 1,2000 people testing HIV positive in the state.
Tha f I r-st* Aids case was reported in Manipur in 1986. The authorities, however, are yet to
apex body to combat Aids, xiiis has affected the functioning of NGOs, which run hospitals for
Aids patients, Organise rapid intervention and other programmes.
^unds were frozen after a blanket ban that followed a Union home ministry report which
alleaed: "ruhd5~hav=~neen siphoned off to underground elements through NGOs." This death a
blow to_about 100 NGOs empanelled with MANS. .According to a report, the National AIDS Control
Organization (NA-CO), the nodal Aids—fighting agency in India, had approved Rs 691.53 lakh for
2001-2002 for MACS under its action plan for Manipur where the disease is spreading fast
because of its proximity to the "Golden Triangle".
The amount approved initially was Rs 480.53 lakh but was increased on MACS' request. Of the
allocation, Rs 240 lakh is in MACS' kitty. MACS' executive committee and governing body had
approved the action plan and the funds had been disbursed. However, after the imposition of
Central rule in Manipur in June, funds were frozen on instruction from the Union home
ministTY vids Gol Lsttsr nc 8/17/200—ME—datsd. 6/12/2000 which. sought the blanket ban.
Earlier, the state government continued to disburse continued to disburse funds in violation
of the order on the premise that MACS was an autonomous body and directly monitored by NACO.
Usage of funds were approved by its governing and executive bodies of which the chief
minister was the chairman and commissioner (Health) was president, respectively.
But after the_imposition of Central rule, the Governor-in-Council, with the Governor'as its
head, took over the task. The"council’felt the ministry's clearance was needed before
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Lin.'—3, ncaily Rs 100 Lakh of ths Rs 240 Lakh irolaasod as first installinaiit had
been used up - before the restriction came into effect - under the NACO representative's
supervision. MACS project director, Khomdon Lisam, said: "we nave written to NACO and tne
Union home ministry for direction. We have apprised them of the situation and critical nature
of the work. A public interest litiaation has been filed bv a journalist. "The joint
secretary of the Union home ministry, Surinder Kumar, told us over telephone to get clearance
foz? all NGOs working with MACS fzroi??. th4? district conunissionar bafora disbursing funds. Wa
have written to the DC for clearance cortiTicates tor emTCOs working with us." The
Commissioner (neaxth) , henry K Henny, Had written to NACO on 30 October that the matter was
" Loppriority" Mr. Henny had highlighted that all activities" of MACS had been grounded in the
past three months. The government drew media criticism. "We cannot treat tnis at par with
other issues as the situation is critical and lives are at stake," said Dr Khomdon.
"We understand the Union home ministry's concern but HIV/AIDS is an epidemic and should be
treated as such," he said. This cannot be put on hold. "People are dying. The virus is
spreading rapidly and the least we can do is to continue with the fire fighting. All NGOs
must not be made to suffer for the handiwork of some," Dr. Khomdon said. "If there is
information on specific NGOs having a nexus with insurgents, these must be blacklisted sd2^3/01 2:27 PM
so that we can get on with the work,” The Governor's adviser, Mr. Kinpgin, who handles the
healtn portrolio, said tne tunas were blockea alter an official memorandum from tne home
ministry. MACS had been blacklisted in January. In March, senior officials of NACO were asked
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any discrepancy. So the funds had been disbursed to it. "We have also found out that the
allegation that MACS had a nexus with underground organizations is not true. Dr. Khomdon will
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•iiie pl’esent IfiSti dCtiOu 15 criciu LuiiOS to existing NGOS be QlSOUZSed after Veil f ICatlOD by
senior orricers or tne department concerned at the Centre and any new NGOs seeking runds need
to be cleared." But the problem is that officials concerned are unwilling to visit Manipur,
he said. A senior official, who did not want to be named, said the blanket ban should be
extended to all insurgency-prone areas like Assam and Nagaland and not be restricted to
Msninnr. cm the blanck list are names of NGOs, which have not received any funds. Ai’ds/HIV
statisti os are sho oting, thought. Of the 3, 456 blood, samples tested up to September, at least
248 were found HIV positive, white 242 were confirmed Aids casco.
Manipur has recorded 1,010 HIV positive cases since 1986 from blood samples of 54,232. The
unofficial figure is much higher. Many Aids-related deaths are not reported because of the
stigma attached to the disease. The good news is that there is a decline in the HIV
seroprevalence ra_ce_from 80.7 per cent in 1997 to 60 per cent in 2001. The bad news is that
the rate among pregnant wom°n is no the rise. Tlie~la'tesIT'epi demi ol ogi'ea 1 analysis of HTV/AIDS
m Manipurconducted by MACS e s tim.at ed there are about 1,000 afflicted. children in Manipur.
The trend is shifting.from_intravcncus__drug users to sexual transmission, ~acccrd'ing~:E5~T'icld
workers. After Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, Manipur is the third—highest HIV/AID3 infected
state in India.
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DS-INDIA1 Partners conference 2001 - invitation for participation
Subject: [AJDS-TNDTA] Partners conference 2001 - invitation for participation
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:37:35 -0800 (PST)
From: satheesh r <somasatiieesh@yaiioo.com>
To: AJDS-INDLA.@ya1ioogroups.coni
2001: Organised by DFK, Kerala State AIDS Control Society and SMA
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Partners ronrn Xp.rj-i-s—r-PP-Sp is a professional networking body of NGOs in Kerala, started in
1997. It aims to bring changes m the functioning of partnering organisations by adopting a
brofessional and system oriented approach. Fifty three NGOs working in the area of
development are memb.ers_.of the forum. Among the members 43 organisations ’ are implementing the
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2001. The theme for the meet is "Opportunities for working together - Government, Bilateral,
Multilateral and NGOs". We expect, parti ci nation from Central and state Government, Bilateral
agencies. Multilateral agencies and. MGQ
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field of development, we expect participation of all the people in the field.
The programme is planned for two days. On the first day after the inaugural function it is
introduction of partner organisation teams and the sharing of partner experiences. On the
second day a scientific session on the theme will be held followed by the valedictory
S2 S S LOU.
The detailed programme will be oend to you by 17th of this month. The venue of the programme
is Cochin, Kerala.
For further communication and information please contact:
Satheesh Chandran
Email: somasatneesnisyanoo.com
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JDS-INDIA1 Partners conference 2001 - invitation for particioation
DS-INDIA] Partners conference 2001 - invitation for participation
Subject: [ATDS-TNDTA] Partners conference 2001 - invitation for participation
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:37:35 -0800 (PST)
From: satbeeshr <somasatheesh(3}yahoo.com>
To; A rDS-TNT)TA ^yahonoronns.com
raitncxs' conference
2001: Organised by PFK, Kerala State AIDS Control Society and SMA
Partners forum kanal-a—t-PFK) is a professional networking body of NGOs in Kerala, started in
1997. It aims to bring changes in the functioning of partnering organisations by adopting a
orofessional and system oriented approach. Fifty three NGOs working in the area_of
development. are. members, of the forum. Among the members 43 organisations are implementing the
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ctuuxe5S tile 153'ueS.
^Jery year PFK organise annual meet in collaboration with Kerala State AIDS Control Society
and State Management Agency. This year we plan to hold the meet on 21st and 22nd of December
2001. The theme for the meet is "Opportunities for working together - Government, Bilateral,
Multilateral and NGOs". We expect participation from Central and state Government, Bilateral
agencies. Multilateral agencies and. NGQ^ Since it is a unique event and get-together of individuals and organisations working in the
field of development, we expect participation of all the people in the field.
The programme is planned for two days. On the first day after the inaugural function it is
introduction or partner organisation teams and the sharing of partner experiences. On the
second day a scientific session on the theme will be held followed by the valedictory
The detailed programme will be send to you by 17th of this month. The venue of the programme
is Cochin, Kerala.
For further communication and information please contact:
Satt-eesh Chandran
Email: somasatneesnisyanoo.com
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<1: 1ATOS-INDIA1 NSAHIVNET Fiscal Spotisorshio Annlication
Subject: Fwd: [AIDS INDIA] NSAHIVNET Fiscal Sponsorship Application
Date: Tnu, 13 Dec 2001 00:25:36 +0000
From: "latha jagannathan" <lathajaeu@hotmail.com>
To: madhyamb@vsnl.com, samraksha@vsnl.net, knpplus@vsnl.net, mamthasatish@vsnl.com,
snehadaan@yahoo.com, vravi@nimhans.kar.nic.in, chandra@nimhans.kar.nic.in,
j_ramakrishna@vsnl.com, pradeep@mahiti.org, sochara@vsnl.com, manohar@sangamann1ine. org,
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>Plcasc find attached an application for all interested parties to be
>considered tor fiscal sponsorship oi the National South Asian HIV/AIDS
>Network (NS.AEUVNET). NSAHIVNET emerged from a August 2001 conference p
>aiuied al iiupioviug community access io HTv’/AIDS preventive sei vices 101
>people living in the United States with family origins in South Asian
>and disaporic countries. The network convenes a multidisciplinary' group
>of community leaders and service providers reflecting the diversity of
>South Asian communities throughout the nation.
>The deadline for completed applications is January 8, 2002. We anticipate
>selecting an agency to fill this important role by February 2002. Feel
>11 ee io direct any questions to NSAHTVNET's Fiscal Sponsorship Committee £)o
>(contact information given below). Thank you for interest in this important
>endeavor.
>Sincerely,
>NSAHIVNET Fiscal Sponsorship Committee
>Melindah Sharma, melindahs@yahoo.com, phone (401) 952-6953
>Neelam Gupta, neelamg@onebox.com, phone (310) 754-6226
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National South Asian HIV/AIDS Network (NSAHIVNET)
Fiscal Sponsorship Application Form
;Completed forms must be returned no later than January 8, 2002
First Name:
Last Name:.
Agency:
Title:.
Add ress:_______________________________
City
State:
Zip Code:
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
Vision/Mission Statement:
____________________________________________
Year Founded:Annual Budget:
Does you agency perform an annual audit?
Yes
Number of Staff:
No
Population(s) served by your agency (check all that apply and list any collaborators):
South Asian (please specify)
_________________
Asian/Pacific Islander (please specify)
___ ______________________________________
Other (please specify)
What charges would be associated with fiscal sponsorship (a percentage of funds, etc.)?
What services would be included (financial, insurance, human resources, administrative, etc.)?
What would your expectations of NSAHIVNET be as their fiscal sponsor?
Please indicate any additional information you would like to have about NSAHIVNET.
Please return completed form by January 8, 2001 to:
NSAHIVNET Fiscal Sponsorship Committee
Melindah Sharma, email: melindah@unionrelay.com. phone: 401-952-6953
Neelam Gupta, email: neelamg@onebox.com; phone: 310-754-6226
OS-INDIA1 Pill factory to the world -India’s drug industry
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Pill factory’ to the world -India's drug industry
Date: Thu. 13 Dec 2001 08:05:54 -0000
From: ArDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
To: AEDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
12.10.01
India's drug industry is growing beyond cheap knockoffs of Western
innovation.
It's better to be a pirate than a knll er," says Amar Lulls, the
-dr.s.n.2.'5ct.0— of Ci.pl.2. in Bcirisy. LuLls's outfit is tto typo of
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m India, versus $0.00 in Manhattan. With reverse engineering, Cipla,
whose_ revenue_ in fiscal 2001 was $226 million, makes and sells more than 400
of the world's 500 too branded drugs.
meet tte face of a new Indian pharmaceutical industry: K. Anji
^Jlddy, 53, the soft spoken founder and chairman of Dr. Reddy's
Laboratories, whose headquarters are in Hyderabad. Reddy is lobbying
the Indian government to adopt and enforce the international drug-patent
regime, something that New Delhi under a World Trade Organization
agreement has promised to do by 2005. Reddy aspires to build his
enterprise into a research-based drug major. "We [in India] have
brilliant people who are as good as or even better than anyone
u.ri'v7i.‘.rh.d?Q qLsg in. tnc world ” tio insists. "Wo’ro roadv for 20Q5.”
India, with its flowering of English-speaking, scientifically literate
people, just might rise above the business of making generic drugs and
ripping off patents. It could become an innovator and a respecter of
intellectual property.
Dr. Reddy's invests 6.5% of its $276 mid 1 ion sales in research, a
habit that it began in 1994 . The results are impressive,
*
the company has
discovered three molecules it has licensed for diabetes drugs, two_to
Novo Nordisk, one to Novartis. Anji Reddy says that he's negotiating
licenses for several more' ciiolescerol, diabetes and cancer drug
molecules discovered in nis laboratory, t'or the three diabetes
licenses. Dr. Reddy's should gross $72 million during the drug-development
^ae. After commercialization, Reddv's will earn royalties on overseas sales
and hold comarketing rights in India, where 70 mi 11 ion diabetics
ijven this xesearch—r 1 ch company gets a chunk of revenue from generics.
Dr. Reddy's generics, though, are increasingly of the sanctioned
variety—copies of drugs whose patents nave expired. In August, U.S.
drug'regulators awarded Dr. Reddy's a so-called 180-day exclusive
oeriod for the 40-milliaram aeneric version of Eli Lilly's Prozac, which had
just come off patent. Merrill Lynch says that Reddy's tookTsn 80%'
sb.9,2?'? of th.9 40—mLlligrsm msrlcot within oiob.t woslcs and astimatas that it
'.-.'ill net an amazing $15 million on $65 million sales of the generic capsule
this year. Merrixx forecasts that Reddy's will earn $69 million, 25%
of aftertax revenue; that's a better profit margin than Merck’s 15%.
In April, Reddy's listed on the New York Stock Exchange and, with help
from Merrill, raised $133 million. The share price has since more than
doubled, to $21, and is this year's best performing ADR. .At that, it
is only 23 times current fiscal-year earnings and 20 times next year's
projections, versus averages of 42 and 27 in the U.S. pharmaceutical
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DS-1NDIA1 Pill factory to the world -India’s drug industry
The companv symbolizes enormous national potential. India missed the
t
r i a i revolution, but '• t ibursting with entrepreneurs and
capital. ”Our chemistry skills are
the best in the
l£]_Isctu1
world," says c.v. Frasad, Roddy’s CEO (and Anji Reddy's son in law).
j-n^india a chemist witli a”rb.D. can be nired for $15,000, versus $100,000
in the U.S.
But you need patent protection to keep that talent from voting with
its feet. "Since patents weren't recognized in India, the best brains went
abroad," explains Satisb Peddy, the company's chief operating officer;
educated at Purdue Uni.varsity in the U.S,, he is Anji Reddy’s son.
Ajit v. Dangi, the director general of the Crganisati'bn~of-’Pharmaceutical
rroducers of Indra, estimates tnat 15% of the drug scientists in U.S.
laboratories are Indian immigrants. 'But he foresees "a" "revolution"’'in
the Indian indusTry^iA'oniding”ah influx of foreign investment in
research and clinical testing--if the Indian government implements the
patent law.
Will it? In a 1970 law the government stopped recognizing product
patents on drugs. This permitted Indian drug companies to
reverse-engineer Western pharmaceuticals without paying licensing
fees. Foreigners' share of the Indian market collapsed from 75% in 1970 to
30% last year
In a poor nation with scant medical insurance and with serious public
health problems, the patent abrogation made eminent political sense.
It ma'7 also, at least transitionally, have spurrod industrial
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(rare A.or a.ndu.a/ • Today drugs xn I ndx a tyTpxoally soli
io! just 3% to 13% oi their U.S, pri.ee. V. Thyagarajan, iTiana9mg
director for India of GlaxoSmithKline, che national markets leader,
estimates that India accounts tor 35% to 40% of the drug g.iant’s
qlobal sales by volume but only 1% by value.
a-nji Reddy, who founded Dn. poddy’s in 1984 with $40,000 in cash and a
$120,000 bank loan, makes no apologies for his country’s history. ”We
[ Br. Roddy’s labs] arc products of that [1570 law]. But for that, we
wouldn’t be here. It was good for the people of India, and it was good
for this company.” The Reddy family’s 26% stake in the Bombay-listed
company is worth ?430_IttitriXon.
In fighting AIDS, Brazil’s generics makers have gotten much ink. But
according to data from IMS Health Global Services, India's active
pharmaceutical sales by vo 1 ume are about triple Brazil ’ s. India gets
efficiencies from huge volume. Quality is high; more than 25 of the
country's drug plants have been inspected and approved by the U.S.
Food a Drug Administration (FDA). The country's chemists are innovative.
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Cipla gearing up for AIDS-related drugs
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:48:56 -t-0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <iamwor1ci@vsnl.com>
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Ci pl a gearing un for ATTIS—rel ateri drugs
The Bueinooo Line 13th December,
2001 Now Delhi
CIPLA Ltd. trie supplier of cheap drugs to a large Nigerian AIDS Wednesday it now planned to
supply affordable drugs to treat opportunistic diseases resulting from AIDS. Cipla is
supplying anti-AIDS drugs to a programme to treat 10,000 Nigerian patients at a concessional
price of less than SI a day, a thirtienth of the price of the drugs in the United States. "In
addition to the anti-ATDS drugs, we have started the supply of small quantities of
fluconazole, a treatment for fungal infections in AIDS patients, to the charity Medecins Sans
Frontieres," Cipla’a Chai man, _Mr^_Y„.K_Hamied, told Reuters. The Nigerian programme, the
biggest in Africa, was scheduled to start on Monday, but has been delayed.
fts Mumbai-headquartered Cipla, India's second-ranked drugmaker by market share, shook the
"obal drugs market when it made its offer of cheap anti-AIDS“drugs'“in’February, and prompted
a series of price cuts by large drug multinationals. It is now offering 200 mg tablets of
f .1 uconazol e, a generic copy of Pfizer's price. "If we're approached, we can also supply drugs
to tz?es.t esnesr, pu.eu220n.i2. and tuberculosis in AIDS patients at a fraction of international
prices," Mr. Hamied said. GlaxoSmithKline controls the patents on lamivudine, one of the
diuys m a thiee—drug anti—AIDS cocktail Cipla 15 offaring.
Bristol-Myers Squibb controls the patent_on.stavudine, the second drug in the melange, and
Germany's Boehringer—Ingelheim that on nevirapine. More AIDS initiatives Mr. Hemied said
Cipla wanted to broaden its initiatives in AIDS treatment. It has offered to conduct
largescale clinical trials in Tndia of an anti-AIDS vaccine being developed in the ITS.
"We
plan to Launch. a home a~d9 detection kit and. supply it cheap to poor AIDS sufforars all oven
the world," he said. Cipla's plans to supply anti-AIDS drugs could get a boost with the visit
or a United Nations inspection team in No v emb er, he said. "We had our faci^iti^s inap.e.ct.ed by
the Uniceo Nations Children’s Fung, and we're likely to be an approved supplier through them
of anti-AIDS drugs to countries where“patents don't apply or where they've expired," he said.
As many as 25 countries have started importing.“Cipla' s" cheap "ahti-AIDS~2Ifug's; and''some
countries were interested in the nrocess technology, which Cipla would offer free// he said.
The company has'also'offered to supply South African mining giant, Anglo American Pic, drugs
to treat its workers once Cipla's anti-AIDS products are registered in South Africa.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( wwiv.fxb.org )
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lAlDS-INDIAl 60 test HIX'* positive in Kerala this year
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] 60 test HD
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Date: Tuc. IS Dec 2001 10.17:08 -0000
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60 test HIV positive in Kerala this year
Thursday November 29, 2001
in Kerala this year, Health Minister P. Sankaran informed the assembly
on Thursday. Replying to questions, the minister said the state AIDS Control
Society, which is coordinating various AIDS awareness activities, had
tQstQ^
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According to official sources, an estimated 70,000 to 100,000
people in the state were infected with HIV. This estimate was worked out
on rhe basis of periodic surveys conducted among pregnant women in the
sto+”s. T^'3v'g wore S59 reported AIDS natdonts in the state but the
actual nuiriber would be much higher, the sources added. ( PTI '/
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WDS-RIDIAl AIDS in Uduni
Subject; [AIDS-INIIIA.] AIDS in U<iiipi
Date: Tuc. 18 Dec 2001 10:23:59 -0000
From: ArDS-nvDTA@yahoogroun<;.com
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AIDS Udupi, DK come right behind Bangalore Urban
By STANLEY G PINTO
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udupi disuriers stand at 1,331, full blown AIDS cases 187 and
deaths due to AIDS_21.
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available at the Katnataha
State AIDS r x e v eiiLxQn outieCy maKe yiliii xeduxiiCJ. xjaSt yeal Lnexe W&xe
1,18U *41 v-positive cases reportea, 136 full blown cases and 19 deaths
due to AIDS. The aatewav to the state is also turning into the
rja f- PWH XZ
STDS.
Little wundex then that the combined ligules of the two distxicts
make tnem rank two in Karnataka after Bangalore Urban, with the
laraest number of HlV-nositive cases and AIDS deaths. It is reported
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The situation in the two districts offers no comfort. There are 765
cases of HIV-positive in DK and 566 in Udupi, which makes DK third
in the state and Udupi fourth. The second spot for HIV-positive cases
ooes to Beller”
st?.nds third with 169 AIDS ca.ses,
u-uSx Dharwad \2g>v/•
The first HIV-positive case was isolated in DK in 1987, thanks to
the testing facilities at the Kasturba Medical College (KMC) here.
Dr P.r?m.achar,dr*a. Shastr,z ^”DS ''•lod.al Officer told The Times qt.
Indiathe figures wars dsrimtsly causs for concern. He aditiiuusd uhe
HIV-positive cases may be more as the affected feared ostracism by
society and hence did not come forward for testing until they
reached a full-blown stage.
Other doctors point out, '’at a time when even leprosy still
attracts social stigma, HIV-positive people are afraid to come
clean''. Dr Shastry notes only awareness can bring about change in
attitude towards the disease and those infected.
On nign prevalence of AIDS in the district, Dr V.K. Venkatesh,
district health ana family welfare orricer, said the strategic
location of the district on National Hiahwav 17 and migration of a
larne
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resoonse. It is estimated that India has about 3.86 million
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centres -- two .in aaiiqawre ana one ai Mangalore. Now mere are
'•eight. Dr Shastry reasons, setting up testing centres was primary
for detection.
For the people of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi alarm bells are
ringing. If they do not wake ud to the danger of AIDS now, many more will
fall victim to th® virus.
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1 AH')S-INDIA1 please check your computer for this virus
Subject: [AIDS-LYDIA] please check your computer for this virus
Dare: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:33:11 -0700
From: "afppd" <afopd@inet.co.th>
To: <Undiscloscd-Rccipicnt:@.mozart.met.co.th;>
Please read this email.
I just received an email that said I might have virus that is spread from
address book to address book. It is apparently undetectable by Norton or
McAfee. It remains dormant for about 14 days and then activates and wipes
out hard drive data. When I checked my hard drive I did find the virus and
Since I have you in my address book I want to share this message in case
you, too, picked it up. The directions tor removing it are quite easy to
follow.
1.
Go to "start" - then to "find or search" (depending on your computer)
2.
In the "search of files or folders" type in "sulfnbk.exe". This is the
3.
In the "Look in” make sure you are in drive C.
4.
Hit "search” button (or find).
ugly blackish icon that will
6. xight click on the file - go down to "delete” and left click.
7. It will ask if you want to send it to the recycle bin. Say Yes.
R. Go to your desktop where all your icons are. and double click on the
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If you find it, send this email to all in your address book, because that is
how it is transferred.
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To: "AIDS-INDIA'' <AIDS-INDIA@ycihoogroups.com>, "Maitrcya" <maitrcya@asianctinclia.com>
I1CW3 Inul C ECVQ .
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have I'-t Ciie isot EGW yGdZ5 StaxtGCl feeling that OUI ’ 5 IS a liOpGiGSS Situation, tout tills
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gives me hope. In sangli district aione we have hundreds of persons who have taken this
wonder cure and nave really suffered tor it.
the problem is the wide spread feeling that 'AIDS has no cure'.
Doctors who practice allopathy refuse to touch, much less treat.
PI.WHA and those
that do treat opportunistic infections do so from, a distance, as long as
they do not have to touch the patient they are willing to give medication.
The fact that it has become a govt problem' is very evident. Even second
degree dehydration is not treated with intraveneous fluids, the doctors are
trying to save their SJcin! I It is this fact that leads ordinary people to
fall prey to the majids of this world, we need effective campaigns to deal
with this issue urgently.
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fATDS-lNDLA] Feedback from 5th Intematio ,.n Home & Community based Care at Chanamai
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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:40:15 +0530
From: Bitra George <jimmyd@vsnl.com>
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17uh Lu 2ulh December, 2001. Hie theme or the conference was "Power or
Humanity’’
(1) Imoortance or Home & Communitv Care in the era of Antiretrovirals:
Dr Eric Van Prac
Director of Care st Family Health. Interna.tion.al set
the tone with an excellent plenary talk on the importance of Home &
CcjnETiunitv Care m resource ricn i resource poor settings. lie lamented
that home care issues is 'losing ground’ to the campaign for universal
access to anti-retrovirais. Even in wealthy countries, nome care is
still needed for PLHAs to ensure adherence to antretrovirals, to provide
psychological & emotional support, tackle stigma issues and providing
palliative care. It was important to understand that there is no 'magic
bullets' for HIV/AIDS and there needs to be a multi—faceted approach to
tackle the growing epidemic. Dr van Praag was adamant that home £
community oasea care complements the use of anti-retrovirals.
There were a number of presentations (Poch oral £ posters) whicn looked
at various successful models for providing home £ community based care
for PLHAs in Thailand, Cambodia, Uaanda £ Kenva. There was much more
clarity on the basic concepts and definition of Home £ Community based
(bj Potentialities and coping ability of family and community in
handling problems ana their role as caregivers
(c) Determinants of the chosen strategies/approaches (economic, social,
cultural, local beliefs £ values)
(d> Mechanisms contributina to success or failure of the development and
There were a number of skills building workshops which looked at the
continuum or care, roie of family memoers as caregivers, improving
access to HIV related treatment, home-based care, alternative care, care
for children affected bv AIDS, care for IDUs etc.
(2)
Pos i. t iv° living ft PT.waq;
Tl’xSxS WS2FS SOIUS 3txORQ px SSSRtat 3.OR3 OR Wllat ’pOSltxV© liVXRCj’ IHS3RS to
PLHAs. Ms Lynde Francis from ICw, Zimbabwe made a fervent appeal for
PLHAs to empower themselves with the latest information on how the virus
affects the body and to fight the disease within themselves - not with
druas but with healthly living, exercise, meditation and balanced
dietary habits. Different people living with HIV/AIDS from different
countries
about their experiences including stigma faced by
pTUiq, ths ’"□Is ot support pzoops in hsipincf PLHAs to cops sncl ths 2?o is
UZ DLsalA.3 a3 CU’CROSx xGx 3 and CaZS ■jlv’ciSO. TiiaxS Wa3 ax3C aR xOSiulVc
lives exhibition and various skill building workshops on the same issues.
There was also a strong representation of PLHAs from India who made some
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there was also a UNDP S Sahara sponsored symposium on Greater
Involvement of PLHAs which presented the results of a number of capacity
building jar-r i vi F i as i d«n ri f i ed and carried out by PT,HA groups in
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Presentations & posters were also made on how to incorporate care &
support programs in community and HIV prevention projects in Thailand &
India.
,4) Tackling stigma £ discrimination in the context of care for PLHAs:
ciere were presentations which looked at PLHA community mobilisation and
attempts to destigmatise AIDS in rural communities in
Indonesia, Zimbabwe etc.
India,
General ooints:
" ihe wiiOj.e concept or Home £ Community based care was brought well
into locus
’ Officials from NACO £ Ministry or Health and doctors from
institutions were missing from the conference. Is it because of
the low priority given to Care S Support programs in India?
* Tndia is far behind other countries in the region (Thailand.
*c’„' ..oopi^c and coxiuuum\.y care m^-tiativcs.
Dr Bitra George
Sharan/ Salaam Baalak Trust
New Delhi
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The skills building workshop on programs for Children affected by AIDS was held on 19th Dec,2001 during the 5th
International FTome & Community Care Conference at Changmai, Thailand.
Report on the Skills building workshop on Care for Children affected by AIDS by communities
Preparatory meeting:
A meeting in. preparation for the skill building workshop was facilitated by Dr Bitra on 18th December in the lobby
of Changmai Orchid hotel. 5 CAA project representatives from Delhi, one CAA representative from Cambodia &
FHT representatives from Zambia & Cambodia were present at the meeting. The format for conducted the skills
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facing C'AA programs in India & Cambodia and use them for group work. The presentations would be kept to the
hare minimum but time would he o-iven to two nre^entation^ from Cambodia The seven issues were identified And
the program details were finalized. Cuficc, tea 6c cold drinks were served to the participants.
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Date: 19/12/2001
Time: 1.30 pm - 5.00 pm
\ ciiuC’ Room no: 2/1, Changmai Orchid hotel
^•^oncored hy 77TTTZ A sja
Facilitator: Dr Bitra George ('Salaam Baalak TrustTndia)
Co-facihtator: Mr Daphneton. Siaine (International HIV/AIDS Alliance/Zambia)
Rappateurs: Ms Napatom & Ms Priti Patkar
Total number of registered participants: 71
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Ritra welcomed all the
session.
Daphneton. gave an overview of the workshorv In addition? he also stated the objective of the workshop. The broad
objective of die workshop was io iilubiiaie key piogram cuiupoucuis 6c strategies that aie required io set up support
system at the community' in connection to a larger system for caring of children affected by HIV/AJDS. Daphneton
also clarified that tlie definition of Children A.ffe.cited bTZ TIP//A.I! ~)S».
for the present skills buildin0 workshop
includes children of sex workers, street children, infected & affected children and AIDS orphans
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(3)
Outline of the group work:
Bitra outlined the seven issues to be discussed in different groups. He gave a brief summary of the preparatory
meeting and the reason for choosing the issues He stated that all the participants would he broken into 7 different
groups through drawing of chits of paper and each group would be handed one issue for discussion. The participants
were asked to locate fellow members of the group with the same name of a colour and were asked to sit in small
circles.
The seven issues for the groups to discuss included —
ppopp vo
ISSUE TO BE DISCUSSED
GROUP COLOUR
Ps-vetrnsocinl «nnnnrt for CAA
PTNK
Resource mobilization for communities to deal
with CAA
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Criminal networks and legal issues deal with CAA
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All the groups were asked to brainstorm on each issue under the following heads
(a) What are the underlying issues or situations?
(b) How can the underlying issues be addressed?
(c) Who are the kev plavers who can be of help?
All the groups were provided with chart papers and were asked to choose a rapporteur for the group. Forty-five
minutes were allocated for the group work.
(4)
Reporting back to the larger group:
Auer the completion of discussion and group work, the participants were asked to name one important thing that
thev learned during the sroup work. Some of the responses included -
7 have realized mat inspire of the language barrier, we could communicate with each other without too much
difficulty ’
' I realized during the group work that there is a need for providing care to the caregivers'
' The problems with Children affected by AIDS are similar despite variation tn terms ofgeography, culture &
tradition s1
‘The participants from various countries felt a common bond unifying them andfelt that the most important need of
the hour was to care for the next generation '
After the tea & snacks break, each of the groups were provided 5 minutes for presentation after which there was a
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discussion on the issue in die larger group.
Group 1: Stigma and discrimination against CAA
) Underlying Issues
How to address the issue
Who are the kev players
:CAA were excluded out
•
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•of
.ro iho cnmrnnmtv
;OUl O1 SCHOO1
ieauiieis and school piogi am
and ivlinisiiy of Education and leiigious
.- Motivate teachers and students to : institution
■
.•source of income
Provide knowledge on HlV'AIDS
caretakers
pptp
Social worker- Health workers- Home-based
worker" JMGrO and government
Provide LUV/AJEOS Qw^rpn^qq to
Collaboration between the K/hnigfrv of
* t-tpplth
Church
Vocational training
K/fprVptinnr
Goveniment
to the community
. Abandoned bv relatives
Raisins awareness m community
As the abovePagodaAnd other department
Oiphauagc/ slieliei homes
Points of Discussion:
Withili SCiiOOiS, tvetuvio otiu [Jiuivijyivo nveu tv/ uv sensitized.
2. Perceived self stigma among infected/affected children need to be addressed.
3. The role of the social workers is also important as they are key players to speak to other people in the
community and help m creating awareness
4. Sensitization & Advocacy is carried out at different levels by different key players
5 Commnnrnr needs to be identified as ke,r r'laver
6. What about children themselves as key player (peers)?
7. Information and knowledge needs to be provided at different levels for prevention as well as addressing their
OWH Stigma
Vulnerable street childr0*'
children of sex workers;
Affected (Parents are living)
Crisis <1?arcuts have died;
• infected
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■ * Older siblings
Fear
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.• Parents
Grief
jb Adoption or foster care
Relatives
Depression
Refer to other service
F?cighbors
Kelt discrimination ^providers (orphanage)
: • Community
Education
Skills training
/leaders
Social Interaction f Group support
Religious leaders
:i- Counseling for both parents :• Schoolteachers
iiand children
■■ Counselors
/ Recreation
:- Outreach workers
Points of discussion:
now do we reveal a test result to the child? How do we break the news ofparents being infected and parents die?
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There was discussion on this issue but the consensus was that
Child needs know and rhe best people to inform rhe child are rhe parents themselves. It is been seen that
caregivers and especially parent’s think that the child need not know but it is important to understand that children are
to
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to the last minute.
Specialist i-~ child counseling could be involved m the nrnress and the process of disclosure could be slow and
gradual. There is a need at iiic uuimuuiiity level to create awareness that children understand therefore tell the
children. Hiding HIT’ test status from the children will make them feel more traumatized and therefore the damage
\vould ^* “n even mere
• Kenya example-children don't undergo volunteer resting unless they are sexually active or married so there is no
question of revealing their own or parent’s HIV test status.
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should be prepared about Hie parent's illness and their death.
Lessons from Uganda have shown how mewnn' books could be used to record hanny moments in the parent’s
lives for their childien in the future.
What would happen if the child came to know that their parents have got HIV through an immoral act?
The consensus was that it was important that the child is told about the virus and not how the parents got the
ixifcCiiOll. It IS 3150 ixupOxtaxli tO help the child UiidCiStand olid COpC With the Situation. Counseling of pafCHtS alKi
family members how to break the news to the child need to be encouraged.
Group 3. Caring fur caregivers affected by AIDS
/How can it be addressed
Underlying Issues
Advocacy
Improve education and
:■
Poverty (child employment, orphans;
Education
/■
.
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.training to me care-givers
Resource mobilization.
rejection
Eaily Hiaiiiage
:■ Lack of guidance
Lack of shelter
: • Nutrition
Effects on the caregivers
Ai Overwhelmed bv the issue, the stress Ik
.-psychological problems
P ■. the lack information if they work in isolation
C. lack of icsouiues, lack of training
D: Strained relationship with the children
f • Qti rYiTnot-Tot. or?
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F: Risk of infections
Key players
;■ Care-givers
: (Grandparents. Parents, •
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■Relatives and extended
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■ ■ Provide psychosocial
:siblings, Social woikeis,:
•Foster parents. Health
■support
. ■ ’’VllVVAU. » VAUA1VVVAO-
:■ Legislation / policy
■improvements (eg Early
••.marnagc)
:• Improve access to
i’healthcare
;• Piuvide daycaie center
Improve the agriculture
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:■ PT.WA
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/organization. NGOs,
LQM agencies
:• Government to lake
the lead
Healthcare workers
:& health care centers
:■ Institutions
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(c) Paying for their bills.
(d) Chatting with the caregiver in person to allow ventilation of fooling & emotions.
Stress management program <£• training of caregivers to help in coping with the situation
Group 4. Life Skills for C’AA
■ TTnderlvirm Tssues/situations
:•
■Wow can it be addressed
Care-gnine (children as caregivers)
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Dealing with empowerment-economic,
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Key players
Education and training
Daycare center
Lobby the government, NGOs role,
Children
; • Remaining family
(members
Decision makiiig-scxual life drug
. programs
PricnuS/peers
: • Vocational skill tor livelihood
■ ■ Children involvement at everv stage as (• Health personnel
••
T~)ooiirn~r With ^lYtrxttrMVol ^ff^et exf
planners./managers etc
' ■ C ommunit' ’
; caic-giving. and ail othci issues (giief and
>.• Get uudeisiandiug of knowledge and
; (leader s)
■loss)
■'attitudes
NGOs
Social life fnc.r. ds play
Education through dramas, games, plays, (■ Government
: • Health
(story teiiing-asseniveness
(local, state, national
■■ Access to good nutrition
■ •• Technical training, train as health
Religious leaders
Dealing witii cultural context (Taboos), ;: educator
•. ■ International
:mamtammg cultural, religious, spiritual life (• Hann reduction and counseling
community
;•
Celf esteem
ahvfftinn onr.
■ ■ Grouo tlieraov
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Monitor and gel access io leienal
(svstem. health training in school and health
Social nsycholooira! nolitical
/church eroim.
JL ' community and other
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Nutrition skills cookina growing food
/. Support groups Queers aCuVitics-pamtmg, •.
.music, physical activities, sports clubs.
■ • orivnr' activities, teachers
Koints ol discussion:
rrhui is uje sKtit education?
S.kdlr. needed for ^eo^le/children to b.p.c.d!^with ever'r situation m Irfe Should we mr.is.t- For Formol education or
should be explore incorporating life skills in non-formal education program also.
Pion- cart 'tve conduct sex education, as it is a taboo in many countries?
Sex education can be
farnjiv life education or value education for acceptance. One needs to be careful about
how it is picscnled and how it is packaged and what are the basic messages.
Vrnno should be teaching life skill education?
We don’t have to rely on nrofesciona! a!1 the rimes — different trainers: and different organizations can accomplish the
same tasK.
Gi'out' 5. Resource
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Issues
How can it be addressed
worKers, iacK oi acceptance, iacK o.t
skill, obstacles, traffic jam, difficult
women ignored most often
Kev players
Structure/svstem within the communin'
Training of volunteers
community
Community Education and awareness
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peers health, representation of
■ common group/committee, fund
re wz-vramuy extenuea
Develops power within
Home based care:
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objectives and roies
generator, bind raising)
Education:
) Study groups, NSS, other students. Peer
Facility for children to study at home support, Big Brolhers/Sisters,
(non formal education)
iteacher-emnower them
Educate healthcare workers
Home visits:
Accessibility/ Non aubrdabiiir
orphan care and fear
Collaboration, integration
community neattn center
Referral system
Holistic approach
who takes initiative
No rmn-npfition
Better coordination
czpen minueaness
Nutridon & Poverty
Mother education on nutrition
Teaching family to grow their own
Participation of cliildren themselves
Points of discussion:
(a) We need to contact other and explore the services that exist to avoid replication.
fbl Resources doesn't mean only financial. It could be services, time and personnel.
JLhere is a need to map resources within the community, Need to do community assessment.
for ranaritv Xnildina
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community
No family (orpnan)
:■
Adoptions (Processes
•ornhnn acres'!
Street children
•
Social worker, volunteers
institution, NGGs
Temnorarv shelter
MGOs/Gos, social workers
Counseling session
Peer support
Psychologists
Social workers
fdfedical personnel
Peers
Dysfunctional family
Responsible parenthood
Initial assistance
NGO/Gos
Social workers
Dead, sickness
Extended family support
Communin' workers
Abuse children- sexnAllv nhvsically, and
NGGs/Gos
Parents troubles
2iiw3fu degree relatives
i>isuiicuiaicu
rjAtcnucu iciiluiv
oOCidi WOijriciS
Community support
Community workers
;nd/3rd decree relatives
Child Labor
Trafficking
■ Employers must be given
information against child labor
uovernment
Legal issue
x xOspitalization
Follow up
Teachers
Information to mother
Peers
Nutrition
Counseling
Education
IIccuui worKcrs
Social workers
Counseling
Shelter
Education
Police
Social workers
Community workers
Networking
Points of discussion;
1.
2
3.
Repatriation is a difficult process and a very challenging one.
There are some situations where repatriation will not help and should be avoided.
One needs to uiidcrstaiid the farmIv situation before repatriating the child.
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Child labor - domestic, industries. that considers children.
Prrand hoys'otrk
Child soldiers
Child sacrifice
T.aw« nmterrino
the child
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Government - Ministry of Labor,
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secuntv. etc)
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Children involved in drug trafficking
Studv and sensitise children
.innentance rients
Child hpaHert families are ■vntnerahte
enforcement maclitnery
Advocacv for qnnnorr
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Immediate family, community
JNLjVJS
SchooJs/educational systems
/
international communities like
ITMTCPf Save the Children TTSAfT),
UciWOiKS-ucip iliie, Cjiuuicii
welfare society and active
8.
Local Leader
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Policies usually present but there is poor implementation by legal authorities, no political will corruption.
(5)
Presentations by CAA projects of Cazfoodia:
After me group work, mere were presentations by 2 CAA projects of Cambodia.
(a) How to create Ivicn Ives vOxuntccr network by Venerable Ivlxut Ung
(b) Social support to Children affected by AIDS and families by Sok Sopbai
The presentations brought into focus the human face of tire issue of Children Affected by AIDS and the difficulties
faced by them.
(6)
Concluding r&narks:
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honed that it was useful, lhe participants were asked to collect all handouts (Report on CAA projects m India,
leaflets on various C.AA projects in India Cambodia) along with limited copies of the facilitator’s nuide ” Teaching
life skills 8c lepiouuuuvc iicalih to vulnerable children .
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f MDS-TNDIA1 MAJEED AT LAST. FACES MUSIC
Subject: [AIDS-TVDTA] MA.TFFD AT LAST., FACTS MUSIC
Date; Sat, 22 Dee 2001 09:29:22 +0530
From: "Maitreya” <maitreva(«;asianetmdia.com>
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T
Majeed, proprietor of Fair Pharma, was today restrained by a Division
Bench of the Ke-rala High Court from luanufacturing, marketing, selling and
advertising (including to hold a website) by any mode the drug he claims to
have developed tor curing AIDS, mental retardation and cholesterol, which
requires license. The State unit of People's Union for Civil Liberties
tPUCL) filed a public interest litigation, a month back, against Majeed in
the High Court of Kerala. They sought to stop Maieed from mannfacturino,
marketmc and selling anv drug claiming to cure all the above mentioned
They asked the court to give a oirection that the so called ’magic
cure’ should be clinically rested by expert bodies like National Institute
of Communicable Diseases, National Institute of Virology and Centre for
Advanced Research in Virology before being marketed. The court complied.
Mpnoarj vras sailing Ms dnja under f-hq nrijrrs and Cosmetics Act.
Majeeu goc a stay oiuex xxom a oingxe oench judge oe Keraxa High
Court ana was going on doing orisx business. The Sign court tooay through
its order cancelled the stay. So that is the beginning of the end of Majeed
and his magic medicine, I hone.
Love
Maitreya
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Subject: [ArDS-TNDTA] Fw: Rihar: ATOS fund goes unutilised
Bate: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:30:18 +0530
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NACO ana several ot its constituent bodies - State AIDS Control Societies and tneir tunaed
NGOs, like other Government deoartments, are known for such soendinqs during last couple of
years. Such spending are mere wastage and amounts to large-scale corruption/ siphoning of
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[AIDS-DvDIA] jLJiiioi. AIDS fund gOcS UnUiihsed
Dare:
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 01:34:53 -0000
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Aitib mna goes unurinsea
SACHCHIDANAND .THA
TIMES NEW S NETWORK
PATNA: Of the Rs 2 crore released by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to it last year to
launch an AIDS awareness campaign across the state under information, education and communication
t- proorf
*m me the Bihar State A ! 1)S. Oontrol Society (BSAjCS) has. so far spent only Rs 70 lakh
in lacr, siow spending oi me Central mna nas considerably affected implementation of the AIDS control
programme in the state. The BSACS, in all, has received Rs 7.5 crore from the Naco. Of this sum, it has
been able to spend only Rs 3.05 crore Of the 846 blood samples tested since April this year at the
3r<ihir.+or-s- nn'j^coH tnrr onH testing centre located in Rajendra ^Memorial Research Institute of Medical
SvIChvCS, AgojuKuail, Fatiia, 170 had tested IE\ pOSiti’vC.
While the BSACS has put up an AIDS Clock near the income tax roundabout here displaying the monthly
figure of HTV/ATDS in the country and Bihar, the same is yet to be put up at other district headquarters and
in remote areas.
n target of distribution of 10 lakh condoms free of cost, only 50,000
The distribution of condoms at line hotels and other transit points considered to be high risk zones has not
been done, while AIDS literature and pamphlets are yet to reach people in the remote areas.
The fortnight-long Tauvan ?vJangal .viola organised at the block headquarters in June this year proved to be
a damp squib as far as EEC programme is concerned. The AIDS control officials are now wary
of even talking about it. A senior BSACS functionary said feedback received about the Mela was not very
encouraging. Now, there is a plan to organise similar Mela, under the name Family Health Youth
Mela, next February hoping for a better result.
The accountant general, in its inspection report sent to the state health department, had taken strong
exception to the tardy implementation of the AIDS control programme in Bihar.
BSACS project director C K Anil said AIDS Clock is yet to be put up at 37 district headquarters, while
00-square-fect hoardings Currying information about the disease had been put up at the district
headquarters. Besides, AIDS message had been written oil wails oiaii the primary health centres and
referral hospitals of the state, he added.
d
Anil said to nrevent the transfusion of infected blood to people, Elisa. Reader had already been installed in
the micro-biology departments of five of the six medical coxlcgc hospitals, Regional Bxood Bank, Fatna,
and Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences. The sadar and sub-divisionai hospitals, however, were yei
to get Elisa Reader.
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1AIDS-INDIA1 PHO DECRIES FALSE .AIDS ALARM:
Date: Ihu, 20 Dec 2001 11:35:52+0530
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PHO DECRIES FALSE AIDS ALARM:
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Healuh Organ!sadon (India) feels that, the news 1 Alammg rise m HIV among
city’s Haxxxeu vyOIYlcIi ’ publ 1 ii’ieu ill a SBCtlOD Ox pi‘655 aS a faxSe alarm With ITlOcxvcS Ox
scare-mongering ana unrair intentions, wnen mv is actually levelling orr nere.
Thp study was sijpp^<JAQ’7 y
pkoscarch xncuLOutc
by National AIDS Control Organisation (WACO), National AIDS
’
(Indian Council "^or Medical Aoscarch—Tc.yp.) and AIDS Research
■vUiuxui CeuLxe (AxtCOis/ . ihe HIv pievdieuue Ox preCjliaiii- women has been sliOwii as 3.5% based
on a sample population ot 8UUU women attending J,j, Nair and KEM Hospital during last 18
months and a sample of 400 women attending Municipal and private clinics during
august-October,
2001. .
PHO challenges this study anu its generalisation to the entire iluiubai s population; wnicn
is l/8th ot the state's population, on following counts:
1} si i t + o
hospitals used. in study- JJ, Nair and KEM, are tertiary referral
hospitals, where complicated cases are referred for special management from periphery c.
the state if not rest of India. Referrals also include women with HIv/AIDS, detected
elsewhere. Just 1% referrals can increase HIV prevalence by 1% of the entire study
sample.
2)
JJ and Nair Hospitals are m close proximity to the country's largest redlighu
areas. HIV prevalence among Murnoai sex workers is between 50-70% in different areas. Even
a small presence of upto 2% of sex workers among pregnant women can increase HIV
prevalence of the entire study population by 1%.
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rn'icii Oiie Say'S, tricl'e IS ail alarming rise of HIV in a particular population; it has
to be basea on a ’baseline’ figure in tne same population; which is lacking in the current
study.
The current H1 V nrevaberce among pregnant women at Madia. Hospital, next door to
KEM Hospital m PHO—Nadia project; wl'iich nas Asia s xargest such study to its credit
having screened 110, 00ti women in 9 years, is below 2% and is almost static for 5 years.
5)
HIV prevalence in donors (mainly adult male population) of all the city blood
banks is less than 2%. Hence, HIV rates *' n female gender of same ^opul atior cannot be
nigher; unless and until exLxa—max 1iai sex among married women is moxe common than in men.
The negative fall-out of such false alarm is that all pregnant women will be seen with
suspicion of HTV; women will h. scared to go to these hospitals for fear of being detected
HIV carrier; city women will face discrimination elsewhere in country at treatment points
and matrimonial problem for city girls.
PHO demands thorough investigations in this study and an immediate clarification from NACO
and ICMP..
Dr.I.5.Gilada, Secretary General, PHO
Peoples Health Organisation (India)
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lAlDS-INDIAl AIDS Prevention for Indian armed forces
Subject: [ATDS-TVDTa 1 AIDS Prevention for Indian armed forces
Date: Tuc, IS Dec 2001 10:15:32 -0000
From: ATDS-rNDTA@yahoogrouns.com
To: AID S -INDIA@yahoogroups. com
Dear rorum members,
ITbs following statemnet. " Pregnant women,
if found to be infected by their spouses, are
Prevention better than cure for the armed forces
PUNE: Are you interested in joining the country's defence forces?
Then get an Accuired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) test done at the
earliest nr f = ro ftp rnnspqiiences of being thrown out. from tbp services,
if later caught
To make a beginning, this message is being clearly spelled out to
all oersonnel of the armed forces. And the reason aiven by Lt. Gen.
M.A. Tutakne, -rmnandant, Armod Forces Medical College,
is the alarming
increase in the number of human immuno virus (HIV) cases across the
country.
"A person is taken in the defence forces to save the nation. And if that person is found
’ncapable nf
nTrcjrirc rbo noods, there is no reason why he should, he allowed, to hang
Admitting that the number of H1V cases detected within the defence forces have increased
in recent vears. Lt. Gen. Tutakne said that a specialised health education programme has
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the supreme court order in this regard," he added.
Lt. Gen. Tutakne said a separate AIDS control organisation has been set. up in the AFMC.
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alarming as to make it mandatory for such a test,” he said, adding that there were also
tne human rights violations to think of.
Sneaking nn the steps taken by the AFNC .in this regard, he said
cadets found to bo carrying the virus arc made to undergo a post-exposure
prophylyxis.
ihrs is the stage when medicines icni to react arid the affected persons are asked co take
personal preventive measures. Pregnant women, it found to de inrected oy their spouses,
are administered with limobledin, which minimises the chances of transmitting the
infection to the r— w-hnrn.
To spread awareness about AIDS and observe World AIDS Day on December 1, the AFMC has
planned a motorcycle rally and an exhibition on the campus.
12/19/01 2:26 PM
1A7DS-1NDIA1 'GAURAV SAMMAN 2001 AWARD’ TO Dr.GILADA
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA.] 'GAURAV SAMMAN 2001 AWARD' TO Dr.GILADA
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:03:05 -0530
From: "ihoaids" <ihoaids@vsn1.com>
To: <cdiior@cxprcssmdia.com >, <mccnal@mid-day.com>,
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'GAURAV SAMMAN 2001 AWARD' TO Dr.GILADA FOR HIS WORK IN AIDS FIELD:
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Parliament Smt. Prabha Rau and Shri Subil Dutt presented the award at the glittering
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were- Film Director Mahesh. Manjarekar, Lyricist Naushad, Cardiologist Dr. Lekha Pathak,
Critical Care exnert of Hindu.^a. Hospital Dr.Sa.njcy Bhuiya.n, Ph.ila.nth.rcoist—Businessma.
nhrikant. dalmiQn. ina eminent personalities like President of Maharashtra Concress
Committee Shri Govindrso Adik,Cine stars Arun Govil, Mukesh Khanna, Anjan Srivasrav were
present.
This recognition to Dr.Gilada. comes at a. time when India, in genera.1 a.nd up in oa.rticula.r
is passing through difficult time as regards to HIV/AIDS. He is known for his spirit of
creative innovation that accounts for his unusual success. He conducts a tremendous number
of activities with a very limited resource base. He is responsible for starting and
running the People's Health Organisation (India) (formerly Indian Health Organisationi
since 1922, ’.‘'hich is the first and the single largest ilGO in the T.-.Tr>v*
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awareness.
nc iias oevciax lUisis to lid d'edici xFidia’s first rilDG Awareness campaign,
first AIDS
Clinic, first Mobile .AIDS Clinic, first successful AIDS intervention project 'Saheii' for
Sex Workers, first AIDS Counseling Centre, first AIDS Hotline, first Anonymous HIV testing
centre and first Coprebensivo htv Management Clinic.
col'll ii: a xarge oi-..iooox raiuixy m Latur anti orougut up witn ±ots of hardship, Dr. Giiada
nas come a long way m bringing Mumbai on aids control map of the world, carrying out
social reforms through medical orofession in tackling sensitive issues like orostitution
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in India uovexiny 16 slates. He has more than 55 awards Lu his credit, including Lhe
Annemarie Madisan international .AIDS Award-1999, endowed with Rs.250,UUO/- in Germany in
recognition of his work for AIDS-oatients in India describing him as 'the Indian
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1/1/02 11:08 .AM
response, ,_r. G.-iaua uianxeu me Governing Boarci oi uttarpradeshiya Mahasang'n for the
honour accepted it with utmost humility. He said, such encouragements and recognitions
would go a .long way in furthering my aims and objectives in the service of humanity
Dr. Ghanshyam Bhimani, Associate Secretary- PHO
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[AIDS-INDIA] New Year Greetinas and Personal Thanks
Subject: [ATTTSLTXTTTa 1 New Year Greetings and Personal Thanks
Date: Sun. 30 Dec 2001 13:06:47 -0530
From: "snhha raghavan" <siihharaghavan47>aol.com>
To: "subha" <sSfl2@Cvlui.iibia.euU>
Dear SAATHli advisers, members and well wishers,
Wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope 2002 will bring
ns all little bit more closer and together in fight against HTV in India. I
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you lend us your cime, your name ano your resources, which mace many of our
activities possible and successful. Many of you have spent countless hours
advising ne and encouraging us to move ahead with our activities, despire
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exoerrences or
or fmanolal resource^. I am trul'r ^*rateful
Each of vou play crucial and varied roles in tackling HIV epidemic in India.
Our role ■’s to bring all-ot you to the table for continued discussions and
debates. Marv tmos " t is vor >' difficult (next to "impossible) as all of us
have various platforms or opinions or different bureaucratic affiliations in
tight against HIV. We at SAATHli strive to be a neutral body, with an
understanding that any less contribution from each of you will be a maior
loss towards prevention, caoc, traatm°nt and advocacy.
Thus it will be our responsibility and continued commitment to bring all us
of together from time to time, despite our disagreements. I am sure all of
us ■:—r—e that we are working towards only two coa.ls ' to protect one billion
hope to see you at the India-Satellite meeting in Barcelona. Everybody who
attended Durban satellite went away with positive spirit and we would like
to renljcate that snirit with much more focused agenda in Barcelona.
Please continue to send your suggestions, criticism ana good wishes.
Tn solidarity
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INFORMATION DISSEMINATION has been our number one focus in last two years.
Many have come uo to us personally at various conferences to inform us that
the information (research,
funding and training) we disseminate via SAATHTT
(saathii2yahccgroups.com) list serve is very useful for these with limited
electronic resources and time. Vie will try to improve our technology and
services as resources become available tor us to do so. We are currently
serving 1050 individuals via this list serve.
Wc also would like to thank AIDS INDIA forum (AIDS INDIA2-yahccgroups.com)
for their collaboration with SAATHli in information dissemination. We hope
to co-ordinate our list serves better in future to avoid duplication.
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1/1/02 11:11 AM
[A1DS-INDIA1 New Year Greetings and Personal Thanks
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in relation dijer HI” issues in India among 8b0 groups or individuals
working in or for India.
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India specific Hlv information is getting constructed and will be able to
provide valuable information some time very soon. If you would like to
assist us any way to speed up the process please let us know.
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resource center to be lead by t'WA organizations, hoping that this center can
be used for su’ooort grouos and training of PWAs and small NGOs.
discussions, and organized advocacy events with specific emphasis on
India/ASIA. All these meetings were aossible onlv due to vour valuable
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We are very excited about our upcoming India Satellite at the world A.IDS
Cede cec.ce in B?.zrce len?.. Yc1.1. will de zreceivine ?. T?r?lii7.in?.ry ?.nneu.n.cemeni
ccouc tm_3 very zccc. i/iccs w-rio ere iritsrcSLsd "to co coonoorz conuboratc or
assise us in any way please do write co us. We would like to make this a
valuable meeting for sharing ideas, networking, and setting priorities. I
hope we all can work together to have one meeting rather than two to three
NETWORKING various individuals and organizations has been and will be a
mantra for SAATHII. It was gratifying to note that at the recent meeting
with the Health Minister at UNGASS, many NGO expressed their interest in
makmc SAA.THII as ?. ceneral median ism for communication, reladed to HIV
issues ror tris wrioj.e country.
It is an ambitious project, However, we win
be able to make this happen by end of 2003 with the assistance of a small
grant we received from the John Lloyd Foundation. We thank JOHN LLOYD
FOUNDATION for Choir interest in SAATHTT.
This grant .■■111 enable us to map the services in India and network various
organizations either by state or issue. Of course we will need lot of help
from you to make this haooen. We will request specific information about
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project, as SAATHII is not yet bOlc approved tor receiving funds. We thank
SAHAYA profusely for their assistance.
Sai Subhasree Raghavan, Fh.D. ,
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1/1/02 11:11 AM
f-'VIDS-iNDi_.\] Organisers expand scope of 2022 .AIDS meeting
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Organisers expand scope of 2002 AIDS meeting
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 04:18:21 -0000
From: "Joe Thomas" <joe_tliomasl23@yahoo.com.au >
To: ATDS-INDlA^yahoogroups.com
Organisers expand scope of 2002 AIDS meeting
In an effort to close ■•■.’hat they feel is a serious gap between AIDS
scientists and people working on the ground in the fight against the
worldwide HIV epidemic, organisers of this summer's XIV International
AIDS Conference have reformatted the meeting to give greater
prominence to prevention, implementation, and policy. The biannual
conferences have become perhaps the most influential meetings in the
area, and the July 7-12 meeting, which will be held in Barcelona,
Spain, is expected co craw more than 15 000 scientists, clinicians,
activists, and journalists from around the world.
Past conferences have placed a heavy emphasis on biomedical research,
while prevention and field-based programmes have tended to receive
much less attention, says Jordi Casabona, director of the Centre for
Epidemiological HIV/AIDS Studies (Catalan Health Department,
Barcelona) who with Jose Maria Gatell of the Infectious Disease Unit,
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, will co-chair the Barcelona conference.
This was understandable, Casabona says, because at the time AIDS was
a new disease and little was known about the causal virus. But as the
epidemic has grown and evolved, it has become increasingly clear that
a purely "biomedical” approach will not be enough. "In Western
countries, for example, the focus of AIDS research has been primarily
on drug treatments", he says. "We now have an idea of what drugs can
achieve--that they can dramatically alter the course of the disease
and prolong life—but we also know they will not end the epidemic."
To do this will require effective policies and programmes that
promote science-based prevention and provide affordable access to
effective treatments, he says.
This crisZ. i-SiiciG is tlo ’CT’sn.sistL© wHcll ws know into offocfivo sction, ho
says, for good science is of little use without good programmes and
policies. "Often there is a disconnect between what we know works and
policy", he notes. "Laws that prevent needle exchange programmes are
a good example of this. Needle exchange is restricted because of
cultural and political concerns, despite the scientific evidence that
it works.” Thus, to try to forge closer ties between scientists and
the community, the conference organisers have created the "Barcelona
framework", which organises the conference programme around two main
components: one, dedicated to "science" and one dedicated to "action"
with bridging sessions where scientists and those working in
programmes and policy can meet and discuss the issues.
Casabona says the goal of the framework is to maintain the scientific
quality of the meeting, which will continue to have tracks featuring
presentations of new work by the world's top researchers in the
basic, clinical, and public-health sciences, but also to provide a
high-profile venue where programme and policy issues can be presented
and discussed.
In addition to the new format, the conference will have three new
tracks: "Prevention Science", "Interventions and Program
Implementation", and "Advocacy and Policy". The prevention science
track will be added to the science component. In past meetings, the
conferences had no special venue for prevention research, Casabona
says, and, as a result, good papers on prevention were often
1/7/02 12.00 PM
I.-VIDS-INDIAI Organisers expand scope of 2002 AIDS meeting
scattered throughout the meeting diluting their effect. There was
also a feeling that prevention research was less scientific than
clinical studies. This perception is untrue, Casabona says, pointing
to a growing bodv of prevention research that has been conducted as
rigorously as are clinical trials of drugs.
The prevention science track will bring together researchers in all
areas of the field, from scientists working on new vaccines and
microbicides to field workers conducting behavioural work in the
community. "You can't separate biological and non-biological
interventions, because they must be used together", Casabona
says. "To prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission, for example, you
need to give antiretrovirals to infected pregnant women, but you also
need to increase testing coverage and primary prevention among young
women."
The interventions and programme implementation track, which will be
part of the second "action” component of the conference, will focus
on how to take research findings and put them into practice, says the
track’s co-chair Ron Valdiserri, deputy director of the National
Centre for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention at the US Centers for Disease
Control (CDCj and Prevention. "For example, how do you take a
successful study that involved a few hundred people and translate its
findings into a programme involving thousands, even tens of thousands
of people", Valdiserri says. The track's sessions will include a mix
of presentations of peer-reviewed abstracts, talks by invited
speakers, as well as debates and group discussions. The focus will be
on how to design, implement, and sustain effective programmes.
The last new track, advocacy and policy, will focus on how to create
a political, social, and cultural climate that will help people
fighting HIV/AIDS succeed. The sessions will address such issues as
the mobilisation of community resources, priority setting and
resource allocation, trade and intellectual property rights, and how
co empower marginalised groups such as sex workers, sexual
minorities, and refugees. "In my mind, policy and advocacy underlies
everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen in
response to HIVZAIDS, but we have never addressed it before in a
coherent way", says track co-chair Margaret Duckett.
The goal of bridging sessions will be to bring people from all the
tracks together to discuss common concerns. "My own personal view is
that the real challenge for the Barcelona conference is the bridging
sessions", says Luis Guerra Romero, a technical adviser to the
Secretary of the Spanish National Plan on AIDS and an advo’cacy and
policy track co-chair. One such session might be entitled "Vertical
transmission: from molecules to programmes", he says, and would
include presentations on the biology and epidemiology of mother-tochild HIV transmission, the efficacy and effectiveness of drug
treatment, and community support and advocacy for HIV testing,
counselling, and treatment in pregnancy.
The strength of the Barcelona meeting will be its scientific rigour
and its multisectorial approach says Casabona. "As a public health
problem, the fight against AIDS needs both of them." (More
information is available at www.aids2002.com. The deadline is Jan 14
for abstracts on paper or diss, Jan 21 for online submissions, and
June 1 for late-breaking reports.)
Michael McCarthy
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1/7/02 12:00 PM
fAlDS-lNDlA] Consultation Meeting cn .Male Sexual Health in Nepal
Subject: (AIDS-INDIA] Consultation Meeting on Male Sexual Health in Nepal
Date: Sat. 05 Jan 2002 02:28:58 -0000
From: "cspsb" <cspsb@yahoo.com>
To: AIDS-INDlA.'rt yahoogroups.com
Dear Forum members,
Blue Diamond Society Nepal is organising a consultation meeting on
Hale reproductive and sexual health in Kathmandu on 11th- 13th
January 2002. For more information contact:
Sunil Babu Pant
GPO Box:8975, EPC No: 5119
Kathmandu Nepal. Ph:+977 1 427609
Email:cspsb@yab.oo.com
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(AIDS-INDIA) Hand in Hand
Subject: [AIDS-EVDLAJ Hand'ih Hand
Date: Thu. 3 Jan 2002 11:32:59 4-0530
From: "Hand in Hand" <handtnhand_india@yahoo.com >
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear iorum Members,
HIV/AIDS increasingly threatens all of India's people, and more and more
children are becoming victims. Some of these children are HIV positive, and
many have been or soon will be orphaned by AIDS.
It is imperative that all types of social support be strengthened as the
numbers of these children increase. We strongly believe these children can be
integrated into existing child care programs in India.
While AIDS orphans who are not HIV positive do not pose any risk of
transmission, the risk from positive children can be significantly reduced with
the proper use of universal precautions. Nonetheless, marly-of these chiToren '
are victims of unnecessary and unfounded stiama and discrimination, and left
unable to access necessary services.
We have created Hand in Hand — a booklet describing issues involved in the care
of AIDS affected children, as well as innovative initiatives child care
programs throughout India have taken to address them. We hope organizations
can learn from one another as well as network to enhance care for children.
We are sending this email to inquire whether you would like a free copy of this
informative and useful booklet. Also, if you currently do serve these children
or have plans to do so, we would love to hear about your successes and any
suggestions you may have.
We look forward to receiving your reply with your mailing address.
Sincerely,
Arafeinda K. Rani and A.arti Kumar
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1 AIDS-INDIA] Training in US ami England
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Training in US and England
Dale: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 14:38:49 -0600
From: "Jack Weatherford" <planetaide@hotmail.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear Forum Members, PlanetAide wishes to announce that it is accepting inquiiries for the arrangement of
3-month rotations with volunteering AIDS-experienced doctors in the United States and Great Britian. Visiting
doctors are expected to pay their own airfares. Volunteers provide housing and food. Please send inquiries to
the address below. Jack Weatherfordm Director, PlanetAide, Box 176, 3010 Hennepin Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408 USA, telephone: 612-333-6003 email:jack.weatherford@planetaide.org "
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[AIDS-INDIA.] Condoms and Lube in India
Subject: [AIDS-EKDL4] Condoms and Lube in India
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:59:34 -0500
From: "George M. Carter" <gmcO@ix.netcom.com>
To: "AIDS-iNDIA-yahoogroups.com" <AIDS-INDLA(§)yahoogroups.com>
Dear Forum Members,
I need help in securing some few thousand condoms in either India or Nepal,
if possible. Also a similar amount of lube in individual packets. These
are to be shipped to Kathmandu. What reputable companies exist that make
good and popular products? I've been checking out
http: z'/www.pashupatiseohung.com/ as a possible source.
Please respond to me directly.
And a happy, safe new year to all!
George M. Carter
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I-ADS-INDLA] Human Rights Mating in n&w^iusthapUMn
Subject: {AIDS-INDIA] Human Rights Meeting in Thiruvananthapuram
Date: Tue. 1 Jan 2002 15:50:13 -0530
From: "Maitreya" <maitreya@asianetindia.com>
To: "AIDS-INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear Forum Members,
Public Meeting with Justice Michael Kirby and Justice Edwin Cameron on
7th January, 2002 or. "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights"
AIDS is not just another disease but it is an epidemic, which brought with
it or made to surface so many ethical, social, moral, human rights and
economic issues. As the world is shrinking at a fast pace we could not deal
these issues by a piecemeal approach. So networking and interaction at the
International level is the need of the hour. As part of the Lawyers
Collective HIV/AIDS Unit’s work in providing free legal aid, advice and
allied services for people affected with HIV/AIDS and conducting an
extensive advocacy programme on HIV/AIDS, Law and Human Rights, two of the
foremost international jurists on HIV/AIDS Law are visiting
Thiruvananthapuram to interact with NGOs, lawyers, healthcare professionals
and students. In collaboration with Department of Futures Studies,
University of Kerala and Foundation for Integrated Research in Mental Health
(FIRM), Thiruvananthapuram, the Unit is organising a Public Meeting on
'HIV/AIDS and Human Rights'. The details of the meeting are:
Date: 7th January 2002
Time: 2pm - 4 pm
Venue: University Senate Chamber,
Thiruvananthapuram
PROGRAMME
2.00 - 2.10 pm.
Welcome & Introduction - Dr. Jayasree A.K., Chairperson,
Foundation for Integrated Research in Mental Health (FIRM),
Thiruvananthapuram
2.10 - 2.25 pm
Introduction to the meeting - Anand Grover, Lawyers
Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
2.25 - 2.55 pm
Address by Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia
2.55 - 3.25 pm
Africa
Address by Justice Edwin Cameron, High Court of South
3.25 - 3.50 pm
Discussion and QsA. with audience
3.50-4.00 pm
Closing Remarks & Vote of Thanks - T. S. Arunkumar,
Research Scholar
Department of Futures Studies, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram
As someone concerned with the issue of HIV/AIDS and its grave impact in
India, we take this opportunity to invite you for the meeting and look
forward to your fruitful participation. Please find bio-data of Justice
Michael Kirby and Justice Edwin Cameron on the other side of this
invitation. Kindly confirm your participation by calling Department of
Futures Studies, Tel: 305321, Thrani, Tel: 300334, FIRM, Tel: 470896.
1/4/02 10:44 AM
fAlDS-INDlA] Human Rights Meeting in Hiiruvananthapiirain
Honorable Justice
Edwin Cameron is a Judge of the High Court, and a Judge of Appeal of the
Labour Courts of South Africa. He is currently an acting Justice in South
Africa's highest Court, the Constitutional Court.
Edwin Cameron was educated at Stellenbosch University and then at Oxford,
where he was a Rhodes Scholar and obtained two degrees with first class
honours and the Vinerian Scholarship.
Before his appointment as a Judge in 1994, he was a human rights lawyer in
practice at the Johannesburg Bar, and a Professor of Law at the Centre for
Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand. Apart from initiating
litigation on HIV/AIDS issues, Edwin Cameron helped found the national AIDS
Consortium in 1992, and the AIDS Law Project in 1993, and was a member of
the team that drafted the South African National AIDS Plan in 1993/94. He
co-dra.fted the Charter of Rights on HIV/AIDS.
Currently he a patron er trustee of a number of AIDS service and community
organisations, and chairs the South Africa_Law Comiission's Project
Committee on HIV/AIDS. _Sin.te 1996 this Committee has produced-four reports
recommending law reform measures, including a ban on pre-employiaent testing
for HIV, which was passed into law in November 1993.
Honorable Justice Michael Kirbv
In February 1996 he was appointed one of the seven Justices of the High
Court of Australia, Australia's Federal Supreme Court. He holds the degrees
BA, LLM, BEc from Sydney University. The degree of LLM was conferred on him
with First Class Honours, in 1997 the National Law School University of
India conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on him.
He has chaired two committees of the OECD on Privacy and Data Security. He
served as a Member of the Global Commission on AIDS of the WHO. In November
1993, he was appointed the Special Representative of the Secretary General
of the United Nations on Human Rights in Cambodia- a position
e1d”unti 1
April 1996. In March 1994, he was appointed by the Director General of
UNESCO to be a member of the International Jury for the UNESCO prize for the
teaching of human rights.
In 1995 he was appointed to the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Committee
of the Human Genome Organisation, now based in London, monitoring the largest
cooperative scientific project in history. He was also appointed in 1996 to
the International Advisory Group on Advocacy Training of the Inns of Court
School of Law in London and International Council for Conflict Prevention of
International Alert, London. In 1997, he took part in the preparation of a
Judicial Training Manual on Human Rights being prepared by the UN Centre for
Human Rights. In 1995 he was elected the President of International
Commission of Jurists.
In 1991 he was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal. In 1998 he was
named Laureate of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education, award
biennially.
1/4/02 10:44 AM
•AIDS-INDIA] India Government Cracks Down on Biomed Researchers
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] India Government Cracks Down on Biomed Researchers
Date: Mon. 07 Jan 2002 10:56:31 -0000
From: AJDS-TNDTA@yahoogroiips. com
To: AIDS-INDIA.@yahoogroups.com
India Government Cracks Down on Biomed Researchers
By Subhadra Menon, PhD. Friday January 4 5:16 PM ET
NEW DELHI Reuters Health; - India's Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare has ordered that all clinical trials at the Regional Cancer
Center (RCC; in Trivandrum, Kerala be suspended for 6 months.
This action is in response to the RCC cancer drug trial controversy
that erupted some months ago. The P.CC had been conducting
unauthorized trials of the drugs M4N and G4N on unsuspecting cancer
patients, in collaboration with 'a ''s'cTent'i'sf from Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland.
India's Union Health Minister Dr. C. P. Thakur has also officially
announced that his government will censure the scientists involved in
the trials. If the government finds any future violations of Indian
Council for Medical Research (ICMR) ethical guidelines, he said, it
will place a lifetime ban on the concerned scientist and the
institution.
Meanwhile, the government is also planning to conduct a nationwide
review of all ongoing research involving clinical trials.
These announcements come even as the results of the central and
Kerala state government inquiry reports into the trials are yet to be
revealed.
After the 6—month. ban at the P.CC is over, all clinical trials at the
institute will be reviewed and permission will be granted only for
trials cleared by the Drugs Controller General of India and the
health ministry's screening committee.
Dr. Sri Ram Khanna, honorary managing trustee of the Delhi—based
Voluntary Organization in Interest of Consumer Education (VOICE),
which works to spread awareness about consumer rights, called the
government's move a ''knee-jerk'' reaction. Without a larger effort
to create regulation and transparency, Khanna said, the government's
action is of little use.
Meanwhile, the government has also advised the RCC to reconstitute
its Ethics Committee by co-opting a representative from the ICMR.
These most recent measures, according to the health minister, are
meant as a clear indication of India's policy on biomedical research.
The government has said, in its official press note on the subject,
that while biomedical research is to be encouraged, the government
will not tolerate any violations.
Thakur also believes these measures will send signals to the research
community both within and outside the country that Indians cannot be
1/8/02 10:40 AM
(AIDS-INDIAl India Government Cracks Down on Biomed Researchers
treated as guinea pigs.
But more extensive reform is needed, according to Khanna. ’'The
government should be working towards creating a transparent, strictly
regulated svstem, whereby all companies and institutions are governed
by the same set of mandatory rules when it comes to testing new
drugs,’’ he said.
(D
(1) ‘M
added that VOICE believes the Ministry of Health and Family
Ifare should be able to quickly put in place such a rigorous system
regulation, as far as drug trials on humans are concerned
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fAIDS-INDIA] Deadline Reminder - Barcelona 2,'i 2
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Deadline Reminder - Barcelona 2002
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 01:31:31 -0000
Proin: "Karen Bennett" <KBennett@aids2002.corn>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear Forum members,
Remember the following upcoming deadlines for the XIV International
AIDS Conference (Barcelona, Spain, 7-12 Julv 2002):
14 January 2002: Abstract Submission in paper format or on diskette
21 January 2002: Abstract Submission on-line (www.aids2002.com)
1 February 2002: Scholarship Applications
Please visit our web site www.aids2002.com for application forms and
more information.
"Karen Bennett" <KBennettSaids2002.com>
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1/8/02 10:35 AM
AIDS-lN’DlAl CPM Leade;- Bimon Bose o?. AIDS
Subject: [AIDS-INDIAj CPM Leader Bimau Bose on AIDS
Date: Mon. 07 Jan 2002 08:52:17 -0000
From: AJDS-INDIA@yalioogroups.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogTOups.com
Bimar. Bese readies for speech on AIDS
KOLKATA: Left Front chairman Biman Bose is busy rehearsing his
speech. But it is not on POTO, POCA, Marxism or even Vidyasaaar. He
is scheduled to speak on AIDS at the Vidyasaaar Mela on December 24.
Bose — executive president of the Vidyasagar Mela committee
moderate a discussion on AIDS. Other speakers are Dr Manish
Chakraborty, Dr Shekhar Chakraborty and Dr Asish Bhoumik.
When asked to explain why he had chosen to speak on AIDS despite
being a political man, Bose explained that the situation was alarming
end that he wanted to be the role model in making people aware of the
danger. "I believe it is my duty to speak on this subject.
We should make people aware to prevent the spread of AIDS,” said
Bose, adding that he had been reading up several books on it since he
was not an expert.
"In India, Manipur is a state recording the highest number of AIDS
patients. We are yet to know the exact picture of West Bengal
regarding the hidden spread of the disease," he said. Bose advocated
that a comparative study on the status of AIDS in the country should
be done in the international perspective immediately.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2001
12:09:47 AM ]
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■MDS -INDIA] consutas uatab«se
Subject: [AIDS-ENDLXj consultants database
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:52:44 -0530
From: kpradeepSyouandaids.org
To: AIDS-INDLASyahooeroups.coin
UNA.IDS India is developing a database of experts in different fields who
can be called upon for short term assignments as and when there is a
demand for such inputs in different parts of the country.
In _his regard, p'ease find attached a format for consultants. Could you
please pass this on to anyone who you think migth be available and or
interested in providing short term on call inputs in their areas of expertise.
Please note that the database once developed will be available in the
public domain and will be used by different agencies as appropriate.
Thanks again for your support and do look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely
K.Pradeep
E-mail: kpradeep8youandaids.org
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Consultants
Kindlv fill in all the columns
Nai T.6'.
Organization:
Designation:
Phone Office:
Fax
Office:
Residence:
Residence:
Mobile
Email-!:__________________________________ I Email2:_______________
Web URL:
Languages (Hindi/English/Others):__________________________________
Education:______________________________________________________
Experience (briefly mention the areas of work starting from your current job)
Expertise (please identify 3 areas of expertise based on your experience)
1
Your availability for short-term assignment (The database will be widely circulated to different
agencies working in the area of HIV/A1DS. Indicate how many days in a month you will be
available for consultancy work)
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Your fees (What will be the fees that you charge per day for short term assignments)
I
Rs._____________________________________________ ___________________________________ j
Any other information that you would like to share with us
Piease attach a copy of your CV for reference. Please note that this information is being sought
for developing a database of consultants in India and is NOT in anyway intended as an offer of
consultancy/recruitment.
fAiDS-INDIA] ICRW India Fello1 sPragram2< 1-2002
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] ICRW India Fellows Program 2001-2002
Date: 1'hu. 10 Jail 2002 06:36:51 -0000
From: "ICRW" <fellov.sapp@icrw.org>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups. com
ICP.K India Fellows Program 2001-2002
The. International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Washington,
DC, with funding from Ford Foundation, India is pleased to announce a
fellowship program for Indian development and human rights
specialists,activists, lawyers, economists, and academics. The
program provides six fellows with three month sabbaticals at ICRW
Washington to explore conceptual and programmatic issues related to
txis ~•" i -c'iT.c ciuestioni
How can a rights-basea approach to development build upon the links
between economic, political, and social rights to improve the
economic condition and promote the full human development of women
who are poor and/or belong to marginalized castes, religious, or
ethnic groups?
Fellows may choose to examine this questions in one of several ways through research, documentation of success stories, design of
programs or strategies, or in other ways that they deem important. It
is envisioned that while the Fellows' work will represent the
extension of their work within their home institutions, the
collection of studies and findings generated through the Fellows
program will also contribute to a deeper understanding of the
relationship between human rights and development and the means to
operationalize that relationship. Based on their work done at ICRW,
fellows will present two in-house seminars and prepare a summary
report to be presented at an end of program conference held in
India in 2003.
Fellowship applications must include a completed application form, a
resume or curriculum vitae, two letters of recommendation from
professional colleagues or professors, and a short sample of recent
written work that illustrates the candidate's research interests and
abilities.
For further information and application forms please see a detailed
fellowship announcement at wwvz.icrw.org or email fellowsapp@icrw.org.
Applications must be submitted by February 10, 2002 via e-mail, fax,
mail, or online submission
to:
Project Director, Fellows Program
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, Mi"!
Suite 302
Washington, DC 20036
FAX: 202-797-0020
e-mail: fellowsapp8icrw.org
online submission: •.-a-rvz. icrw.org/fellowfm.htm
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is an
independent non-profit organization established in 1977 with the
mission to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's
equality and human rights, and contribute to broader economic and
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plishes this, in partnership with others, through research,
:ap< :ity bui Iding and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic,
fiealih and social status in low and middle income countries. We
ncentratt on tl . following strategic areas: poverty reduction and
economic growth; HIV/AIDS and development; social change, norms and
institutions; reproductive health and nutrition; and adolescence.
IIP.?; has offices in Washington, DC, USA and New Delhi, India.
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1/11/02 11:42 AM
1S-JNDJA1 Any info on Aloe Vera
Subject: [AJDS-TVDTA] Any info on Aloe Vera
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 02:38:10 +0530
From: "Meiita Vaz" <inelita(<2vsiii.com>
To; ArDS-TNDTA@v'abr>noronn« com
CC: <aiilsfonmi_iiiuiiibai@yalioogfOups.com>’
I was at a public gathering yesterday where there were some salespersons who
were drooling over aloe vera. Their literature mentioned:
Curtail inrr HIV infection in ovrrACt of mnnosA, one of the sugars in aloe can inhibit HTV— 1
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12/21/01 10:22 AM
DS-INdia,] Skill building workshop on children affected by AIDS at Chanaiiai
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Skill building workshop on children affected by AIDS at Changmai
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:17:23 n-0530
From: Bitra George <jimmyd@vsnl.coin>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yalioogroups.com
CC: SAATHl@yahoogroups.com
Dear All,
There will be a special skill building workshop on " Interventions to
address vul norAbi i ■» t- i
frit. err. a
o-f Children affAct.Ad by AIDS” at thA~
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—U3T6S £ Conur.ur.ity based a arc conforonco at Changmai on 19 th
December, 2001 between 1.30 to 5.00 pm. Thio oeosion is sponsored by FHI
ctiiu tiiel's Will be pleoenlcl5 xl'Oitt Ifxulci, Ceutibodlct, uyctiidct to ohcil'e thcli
*
experiences. In addition, there will be discussion on various important
issues affecting children including -
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Meeting basic needs of children (shelter, food, clothing,
sdaca’. medical hein.
’safe
counsel 1 i no)
g methods for providing information to children on health,
IDS, sex & sexuality, STIs <£ substance use
(c) Addressing issues including poor self esteem S lack of self
awareness, tackling peer pressure
(d)
Addressing stigma & discrimination issues and Institutional care
versus Community care
(e)
Coping with death a dying issues & caring for siblings
Regards,
Dr Bitra George
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12/13/01 10:06 AM
IDS-INDIA1 Teflhs Turn to Web for Health Info
Subject; [.MDS INDIA] Teens Turn to Web for Health Info
E>are: Tue, il Dec 200i 22:52:48 -0800 (PST)
Proni: Saxena Rishi <rishisaxena@yahoo.com>
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Survey Finds Teens iurn to Web for Health Info
By Reshma Kapadia
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teens and young adults are
flocking ro the Web for health-related information as
much as they are downloading music and playing games
0n.l2.n2, stud 120222 oft2H tb.an stioppincj oh11h2, accordincj
tc a national survey from. the Kaiser Family Foundation
released Tuesday.
A survey conducted by the foundation found that one in
four people 15 to 24 years old say that they get '^a
lot’’ of health information '"online' and a significant
proportion" of youth are acting on what they find.
^R-;c had no idea that so many young people were going
online to y’2t health inforiucition. A lot of us assumed
that they were going online just to download the
latest Red Hot Chili Peppers song so that was a
surprise. It is even more so than adults, * ' said
Victoria Rideout, vice president and director of the
program for the Study of Entertainment. Media and
Honlth. 2.t ths IzoHndstion.
Kccti‘j.y 4 0% oi t?xO5ti __5jii-veysd Sctid they hav& changed
“heir own oenavior oecause or information they round
on the Web.
The survey. Generation., Rx.com, includes findings on
how young people use the Internet as a health
opinions on filtering technology and online
pornography, and new data on where and how often teens
and young aduiLs are going online.
Jjalf of all online youths have searched the Web for
^Pformation on specific diseases such as cancer or
diabetes. Sensitive, youth-oriented topics such as HIV
(news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites), birth
control and sexually transmitted diseases are also
popular.
About one in four of those surveyed have looked up
information on weight issues, mental health, drugs and
alcohol and violence.
''Confidentiality is so important and at this point
most young people have faith that the Internet offers
them that confidentiality, ’’ Rideout said.
The majority or youtn who nave surred tne web ror
health information do so just a few times a year, but
nearly four in 10 do so at least once a month, the
survey found.
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About 17% of young people said they would trust health
information found on the Web ''a lot1' while 40% said
they 'would trust it at least ' ' soir.ewh.at. ’ ’
Rideout said the study, one of the first to look: at
this age group's interest in health issues on the Web,
raises a series or questions, including the quality of
the information available and targeted at this age
group.
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■-INDIA] HTV Disease instead of .AIDS
Subject: [AIDS INDIA] HIV Disease instead of AIDS
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:21:13 -t-0530
From: "tjjohn" <tiiohn@ind4.vsn1.tier.in>
Even today a lot of people use the term AIDS for HIV infection. This is not
acceptable.
The Medical University at Chennai had a workshop a few years ago in which a
consensus arose, to use the term HIV Disease instead of AIDS, in all
situations except in scientific papers. This will create better distinction
between HIV infection and HTV Disease.
Just be conscious the next time you say AIDS.
t Jacob John.
E-mail: <t j john(smd4 .vsnl .net.in>
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Subject: (AIDS-INDIAJ Cipla responds to Glaxo's CEO on its price cuts
©ate: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:59:29 -0000
From: AJDS-TNDTA@yahoogroups.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups. com
Cipla responds to Glaxo's CEO on its price cuts
tear Lulla, Director of Cipla, writes:
Hopefully Sir Richard Sykes lashing out emanates from ignorance.
I am sure he means well.
Sir Richard Sykes perhaps has not been informed of the developments
in India, both on the availability of AIDS drugs and their pricing.
Zidovudine was launched in India as early as 1993. Since then the
price has beer, consistently reduced and now stand at around one
third. Similarly, other molecules such as Stavudine, Lamivudine,
Nevirapine, Efavirenz have been launched and their prices have been
slashed from time to time. Cipla donated Nevirapine to the
Governments of India, Kenya, Sudan, Zambia and Cameroon for prevention
of MTCT. ?;e would be very happy to share the facts with Sir Richard
Sykes in case he cares to look at them.
Sir Richard Sykes also has perhaps overlooked the fact that Cipla's
"rhetoric and publicity" offer of supply of cheap .AIDS drugs lead to
suppl;/ of these drugs to Algeria, Bahamas, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central
African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala,- Iran, Ivory
Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Macao, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique,
Myanmar, Nigeria, Peru, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam
ano Zambia.
Sir Richard Sykes also perhaps has missed out reading in the
international press that his company in June 2001 offered cheap AIDS
drugs to 63 countries. Would his company have done this without
Cipla's "rhetoric and publicity" offer? Did he also miss out Mercks
offer to slash AIDS drugs trices in March 2001? Did he also miss out
Pfizer's offer of free AIDS drugs to poorer nations in June 2001 and
aid he miss out BMS offer to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at below’ cost
in March 2001? WERE ALL THESE OFFERS ALSO "RHETORIC AND PUBLICITY"?
Let Sir Richard Sykes do his bit and let the Indian companies do
theirs in making available AIDS drugs to dying millions.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerel
tear Lulla
Director Cipla
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(AlDS-IN'DIAj Govt must [ , ect AIDS patients rights: Sorabjee
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Govt must protect AIDS patients' rights: Sorabjee
Date: Tue. 15 Jan 2002 13:02:36 -0000
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Govt must protect AIDS patients' rights: Sorabjee
' THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2002
11:18:41 PM ]
;7Z?' DELHI: Emphasising that the Constitution imposes an obligation on
the government to adopt measures to protect the rights of an HIV
PTI
infsctsd ps2rson. Attorney Seneral Soli SorabiBG on Thursday ssid the
Apex Court should take a P£2£££ive stand on this issue and give
3~hs.
"If some PIL comes up on this issue, I will support it. Article 21 of
the Constitution imposes an obligation on the state to adopt positive
measures to protect their (HIV infected persons) rights," Sorabjee
said at the "Colloquim on HIV/AIDS: The Law and Ethics".
Lamenting the lack of a comprehensive legislation on National Public
Health which penalises discrimination of HIV infected persons,7^He
said "waiting for it is of no use. The Supreme Court should take a
proactive stand on this issue and give directions."
Pointing
t.’ist India has over 3.9 million HIV oositive peools, ths
second largest in the world, Supreme Court Judge Justice Kirpal urged
doctors, lawyers and the media to educate the people about the AIDS.
Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia criticised the
attitude of the society towards the HIV positive and said the
governments should make efforts in sensitising the society and must
allocate more money to tackle the disease.
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Subject: [AIDS-INDLK] Community REACH grants available for Africa, Asia
Date: Wed. 16 Jan 2002 20:12:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Sukontikar Jinapengkas <sukontikarj@yahoo.com >
To: AIDS-INDLA.@yahoogroups.com
Jomunity RiACH grants available for Africa, Asia, Americas and Eastern Europe?
AIDS Channel By Julian Meldrum - January 11, 2001
To distribute funds, Pact will issue approximately two to three solicitations for
proposals a year. Grants will be awarded in amounts starting at $100,000 for periods of up
tc three years, depending on fund av i .ability, with unlimited potential for cost sharing
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The first round of grants will be restricted to countries and regions categorised by USAID
as "Rapid Scale Up" or "Intensive Focus", based on the scale of their HIV epidemic and
their ability tc make use of international resources in responding to it.
These countries are now (from 14 January 2002): Brazil, Cambodia, Dominican Republic,
Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal,
Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Zambia,
A longer list of countries is in line to benefit from future rounds (subject to
negotiation and discussion between USA.ID and Pact) .
US and other international "Private and Voluntary Organisations" (PVOs: can apply for
these grants, but must have either a current presence in the country for which they are
applying to conduct a project or partner with a local non-governmental organisation (NGO)
in that country. Regional and local NGOs, universities, and faith-based organizations
engaged in HIV/AIDS activities that meet USAID's criteria are also eligible. All
applications must also be supported by the relevant USAID mission in the country or
region.
There is an expectation that organisations will raise seme part of the cost of the
pregramme fro 1 other sources ("cost share"). "Community REACH expects applications of
$100,000 tc $300,000 to include a minimum cost-share of 10%. Applications above $300,000
should include a minimum cost-share of 25%."
Grants can be awarded in all areas cf activity that USAID supports, broadly divided into
three categories:
Primary HIV/AIDS prevention strategies including behavior change communication, condom
orcr-otion and availability, prevention cf mother-to-child transmission, blood safety, harm
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details; this is the fetus ?f the first grants round) .
□rants
11' be directed to chose activities chat have a direct impact on these areas.
Funded activities will be consistent with USAID's goals of "increased use of improved,
effective and sustainable responses to reduce HIV transmission and to mitigate the impact
of the HIV/k'IDS pandemic.”
For the current round of funding, the focus is on care and support. This means:
Referrals for prophylaxis, treatment of opportunistic infection, and palliative care
Referrals for cut of hospital to competent, home-based care and ambulatory care
Care for orphans and vulnerable children
Feed and nutrition component for HIV/AIDS infected/affected.
Applications for the first round will be accepted until 8 March 2002. For additional
information, contact the Community REACH team at reachgrants6pacthq.org. Information will
also be available at USAID Missions, Pact and the Futures Group International field
offices (as well as through the web links given at the beginning of this article).
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Sexual Health Projects
Subject: 1A1D9-15DIA] Mamin! - Guidelines for Reproductive and Sexual Health Projects
Dale: Wed. 16 Jan 2002 10:24:07 -0700
From: "Sohp.iph Kolkatn" <suhidita@1oxinfo.co.tb>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yalioogroups.com>
' Guidelines for Reproductive and Sexual Health
in Developing Countries' (For Facilitators and Health’workers at
Root L-.'-l '• _s
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(and your contribution had been
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health scenario would be useful for researchers and students in addition to
Additional attractions are a. Workshop or. basic healthcare for PHA (People with HIV/AIDS!, care givers
and other non health personnel by MSF and Access(Thailand).
b. Life skills tral-.i-g modules for training of trainers as well as adolescents
c. Training modules for traditional birth attendants.
d. Pictorial representation zt in depth medical knowledge for non-medical
managers / health workers ,could be copied and converted into Flip charts or
cloth costers for IE? 'work.
e.
A short e group training discussion on Reproductive Health will be
available
free of charge to the buyers of this manual.
p =ase check the website http://www.geocities.com/sohgaph 1993/manual. html
for further ir.fcrmaticn. Publisher- School of Human Genetics and population
Health, Kolkata,India. Please book you copies early.
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Doctors Should Prescribe ARVs for rape survivors
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:26:45 -0000
From: asiaffcriinath.org
To: AIDS-INDIA ffyahoogroxips.com
SAMA calls for ARVs for rape survivors
Doctors Should Prescribe Anti-Retrovirals,
say Medical Association
South African Press Association (Johannesburg)
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retroviral drurs to an 11-month-old gang-rape victim.
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Health MHO Dipuc Peters reportedly lambasted the
Klnberley provincial hospital after media reports revealed the child
had been giv-nthe anti-retroviral drug AZT.
The government is also involved in litigation against the Greater
Nelspruit Rape intervention Project, which hands out anti-retroviral
ir igs to rape victims at six hospitals in the greater Nelspruit area.
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Pless Releas, fromCERC. Alw-ecd
Subject: Press Release from CERC, Ahmedabad
Date: Thu. 17 Jan 2002 14:46:46 *0530
From: cerci? \vi Inetonl ine. net
To: Darlcna David <cd.cmai-tj vsnl.com>. Madan Kataria <laugh@vsnl.com>,
Mathew Nantpudakam <vhai®vsnl.coin>. Naresh Agarwal <saveraindia@rediffinail.com>,
Nina Shah <inika@icenet.net>, Phalgun Patel <sandesh@adl ,vsnl.net.in>.
Praviena Shanna <pravi sfrt yahoo.com>, Ravi Narayan <sochara@vsnl.com >,
World Consumer <consinT??:entelchile.net>
A new labcratcrv for comparative testing of energv efficiency of
electrical appliances ■.'ill be opened at the Consumer Education
and Research Centre CERC complex on Saturday 19 January.
The Rs.l.38-crc -e lab section,
felt
funded by USAID,
fulfills a
long-
need for testing energy consumption and efficiency of
conditioners,
fridges,
air-coolers,
fans,
tubelights,
etc.
air
The
test results will be published and publicized through INSIGHT
The Consumer Magazine as well as the regional and national media.
Mr. Richard L. Edwards, Director, Office of Environment, Energy &
Hjnt s n"osg —
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2 i 1 cisc 1 s its c Hg 13'00 2??. tL O-T".' c OGn . Hon’blg 1I2?.
B.M. Oza, 3 smber, G jarat Electricity Regula try Co i ission, will
preside over the function. Mr. A.T. Kusre, General Manager-ICICI,
z
, will be guest sneakers and Prof. Manubhai Shah, Managing
Trustee, CERC, will deliver the welcome address.
The
setting up of the laboratory under Clean
Technology
Initiative and its test findings will help and
encourage
consumers to go for energy-efficient appliances,
rather than
spend their money on gadgets and appliances consuming heavy
electricity. This •■.'.ill also help the Indian industry in adopting
clean technology and certified environment management systems and
energy-efficient
en —iraae th si to manufa
CERC is the only consumer organisation in India and Asia which is
equipped witn an independent, in-nouse laboratory complex devoted
to the comparative testing, evaluation and ranking of consumer
products.
The
products
now
tested
come
under
food,
pharmaceutics Is and domestic electrical appliances.
Based on cur test results and technical studies on electrical
appliances — the test findings are published in INSIGHT - The
Consumer Magazine and the national media -- we suggest several
amendments
to the BIS for upgrading the existing standards.
BIS . as re’ ised the standards
immersion water heaters, etc.
for
electric
irons,
The
plugs,
CERC is also advocating with the BIS the inclusion of energy
efficiencv parameters in the Indian Standards for all high energy-
L IS 02 10:36 AM
Prjess Release from CERC. Ahme-labac!
. CERC is
- sented
various BIS technical
:trica_ appliances and helps the latter in
The
Indian Sects etc Toiletries Makers Association
(IST14A1
the
has
donated Rs 52 lakh to set up a laboratory for testing personal
care products like cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, toothpastes., etc.,
which ■.-.'ill open shortly.
Editors/Chief Reporters: the following FOR FAVOUR OF
in
PUBLICATION
your newspaper in the "FNGAGEMENT/CTTY DAIRY /EVENTS"
COLUMN
dated 19 January 2002. Thanks.
INAUGURATION
rds.
D,
0F
FNERGY EFFTCTENCY TESTING LAB: Mr.
Director, Office of Environment, Energy
&
to inaugurate the new addition to the in-house
Consumer
Education
Gandhinagar-Thaltej
and
Highway;
Research
Centre
(CERC)
Richard
Enterpriselaboratory
Premises,
5.30 p.m. Hon*ble Mr.
Lalita Meduri
Consumer Relations Officer
Opinions, test results and research findings issued through this
Press Release cannot be used in any form directly or indirectly
for advertising, promotional or commercial purpose.
CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTRE
"Suraksha
Sankool", Thalcej, Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar
Highway,
Ahmedabad- 380 054 (INDIA) Phone: 079-7489945-46, Fax: 0797489947, E-mail: cerc8wilnetonline.net
1.18 02 10:36 AM
IaIDS-INDJA) Indian Paradox. Condoms :...o A .. c
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Indian Paradox: Condoms may be a crime
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 03:21:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Jagdish Harsh <janiuorld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: j harsh @afxb.org
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Paradox: Condons may be a crime
Mew Delhi, “an 14: Sodcitv does cake nlace inside Tihar
jail, a top police official admitted on Monday but
said the jail could not become a party to the crime
by supplying condoms.
Speaking at a press conference, director-general
.'prisons; .-.jay Agrawal admitted that sodomy exists. "I
don't deny that these kinds of activities take place
inside the jail complex. But that happens everywhere
in the world. What do you de about it? When such a
case comes to light:, we cake action against the person
and a proper criminal cash is registered by the local
police. Despite this the jail administration does not
allow condoms in Tihar.
"By supplying condoms we do not want to be a party to
the crime. The police cannot be seen aiding this
practice. We de not want to legalise it by supplying
condoms," he said.
The director-general denied that the crime was
"prevalent" in the jail. "Just a few cases have come
co light. Over crowding of jails has discouraged
this," said the director - general.
According to him, overcrowding of the jail barracks,
where at an average 150 people sleep together, had
helped, to an extent, prevent sodomy as if anybody
indulged in such an act there are hundreds who are
■watching them.
The puritanical attitude of the jail administration
exposes Tihar inmates tc a risk of contracting HIV
infection and sexually transmitted diseases. In the
year 2001, 12 inmates at the Tihar jail were suffering
from AIDS. At present, nine inmates had AIDS.
Mr. Agrawal said the problem faced by the jail
authorities stars when an inmate having AIDS refuses
co leave c?ie 'si i premises.
Citing a case of an innate infected with the disease,
Mr Agra
said the inmate aggco ached the De ini RTgh
Court and sought intervention in this regard.
The reason behind the inmates move, according to Mr
Agrawal was that free medicines were avaiTable in the
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ter vtcti—s.
However, even after jetting the medicines, the inmate
had refused to leave as he was getting free medical
f.-i 1i: ies inside the jail complex which were very
expensive outside the jail.
Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Director of Adminjistraticn
Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA)( www.fxb.org )
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This kina of initiative was most necessary and expected for a long
time. Its nice tc hear that screechings are happening, the key to successful
antidiscriminatory and destigmatising situations is offcourse
constitutional sanctions and effective policies. Strong voices such as the
Attorney General Sen Sorabgee needs to be heard for a consensus and action,
:: we have the stem the growth of HIV/A1DS tn j.ndia.
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Date: Fri. 18 Jan 2002 09:06:39 -0000
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''iV/jrW IBsnk. Aid EffcCiiVvSicss IRLcscarcha DcvcIo’JIHcbI JR-Osoarcli Grou7) ''released Alarch 27
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Welcome tn a post-mortem of and a critical look at Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) in Africa together
with a proposed new recipe to maxe them better, avoiding their (sometimes now judged clumsy) pnfalls.
The Report reviews aid and policy reform in ten African countries spanning from the eighties to the nineties.
The countries are arbitrarily divided into four categories:
-Successfill Reformers (Ghana and Uganda —and. interestingly. Vietnam added),
-Post-socialist Reformers fEtluooia. Nlali and 1 anzania),
-Mixed Reformers (Ivorv Coast, Kenva and Zambia), and
-Non-re formers (Zaire and Nigeria).
Au o.i diem received large amounts of aid and all ol them had SAPs.
Overall. I see the Report as an apology for market-based reforms, because the authors truly believe them to be
the best option In doing the kilter, ihe Report tacillv calls on Western donors and on the private foreign
investors to rethink their strategies and to support countries that adopt WB-sponsored macroeconomic policies.
Without having any qualms about the brilliance of this Report, the first monumental problem I have with it is
that it represents a typical cold economists' account and analysis of an indeed complex matter.
The warm analysis of ihe social consequences and cosis of lhese reforms is nowhere io be seen!.’ Il is skipped as
if it does not exist, as if it doesn't count, as if it is unimportant. Passing-by, casual mentions of poverty reduction
on panes 4. e i and o4 add to mere mockcrv. J Jus shot tcoming set jousl * deli acts ; tom the Repot t s in ornate
moral authority.
The second problems 1 have with this Report relates to the authors' definition of what constitutes "good
policies" In. an astonishing leap of faith thev arrogantly tell us: "we know enough about development policies
to make a fair assessment of tne utiahiv ol nobcies across countries ano over time... ihe notion that wc ate doing
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:v>'icv across countries is suooorted bv the fact that our broad measure oi policy
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■ ■ growth rales of the lour categories of countries in our study". Absence ol 1
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iieribig ioieign exchange and financial markets,, openness io foreign trade, effective rule of law
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o; kev ic.~. ices. ulus lax and sectoral policies that create good incentives lor accumulation . and
the public sector providing services complementary to private initiatives are given as key elements of "good
policv". {pp.2-3 ;• For the Report's analyses, this is then all blended into a 0-4 scale or index in a way that
remains unexplained in the main text (trust us: "we know enough about development...”).
Li short, "jooi.1 rolicv" i:£<i clearly fits (and serves) the ideological outlook of the World Dank. That, io me,
detracts on the Report's objectivity.
The Report (controversially) concludes that aid is not a primary determinant of policy, i.e. that variables under
donor control do not consistently influence the success or failure of reform; that aid does not buy good reform.
We are further told ilitt: polim is (rub independent of aid and that the effect of aid '•'■■ill increase with the quality
of policies. Aid, in the authors' eyes, did play a significant and positive role in the ‘success’ of the two
sustained reformers (I .ganda ano Ghana). (pp.4 ■ 6)
1 he Report then goes on to regret that donors tend to concentrate their assistance in countries with mediocre
policies v.nh
cxp-cimicn ihai aid can spur policy reform. Bui we arc told 11121 policy icrmaiion is primarily
driven by ihe dom.esiic peliiicai economy where vested interests can (and do) perpetuate poor policies
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between formal democratic institutions and good economic policy could be found.
AciUally. large amounts oi aid to countries with bad policies sustain those poor policies allowing the delay of
reform, we read. Funds can (and do) actually sustain corrupt and incompetent governments. Attaching
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without disagreeing ■’ ilh the donors since this x' ill onlv serve to delay the arrival of ihe much-needed resources.
Further, donors ci'oroinatc their work tn a remarkably poor way ano actually do not discriminated effectively
among different countries: they tend to provide the same package ofassistan.ee everywhere and at all times;
they also nit e less aid per capita to populous countries All this is explained by the fact that aid in too mam.
cases is. a foreign policy tool rather than a toot for economic development. It is often dictated bv colonial
relationships and or voting panems in ihe United Nations and often ends up financing non-viable or even
non-uevejopmeiit sciicmes. Alternatively, aid provides governments with tne breathing space they require to
contain domestic opposition to market reforms, or i t fills the shelves of supermarkets to provide a psychological
impression of better things to come. Donors should definitely not provide aid before governments are serious
about reform, (pp.5, 6.12,21,26,27-29)
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stages of serious reform, we learn that leaders and technocrats (self-servingly meaning those
sympathetic to VVB policy advice) actually welcome conditionality to ‘bind’ the process of change. Later, once
.i.e i.i0n» miAcmcnt is well in place. conditionalitv becomes Jess useful and should be withdrawn, because it
limits participation and it disguises the ownership of reforms. But the case studies show that, in a mistake, this
112S not happened and conditions have become tighter. more numerous 2nd their acceptance more important for
lencmg 10 oe approved. (p.6,30-32) (In an oxymoron, on page 31, we read ihai 10 be useful. conditionality must
reueci measures th<u ihe government wants io carry out then why the condiiionaliiv9,1 ask)
Inc composition of aid is important, wc read.
In the pre-referr.?, period, Technical Assistance (TA) and Policy Dialogue are most supportive.
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s.Yisiair.ed. Finance remains crucial. (p.6)
Rapid i< inii'i'i 'eadn’.g "good policy" o< curs when all ot the important macroeconomic reforms have been
completed, wc arc told. (Note the total absence of any mention of the social realm). Then, countries arc said to
need to move into "second generation reforms": and which are these?.... privatization . civil seivice reform,
judicial reform, and budget reforms, (p.23)
One cannel avoid bill asking: and what about structural reforms leading to poverty alleviation, greater equity
and the provision of services for the poor... ?
1 he Report repeatedly speaks about "poor policy" periods, always assuming those to mean periods when World
Bank-prescribed policies were not (yet) followed. Confirming the political nature of aid, it goes on to say that
governments were estranged front the West during their "poor policy” periods.
In the Report s context, policy dialogue -eufemistically called "low-key assistance" or "dialogue with foreign
experts"- scents to be associated with the license Drctton Woods IFIs and donors took to put high pressure
(‘leverage’, the Report says) on governments to adopt macroeconomic reforms, i.e. replacing state controls by
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The Report self-servinglv claims that policy dialogue with the IMF and WB played a critical role in the earl
years of "good policy ’ reform involving smalt groups of dedicated technocrats and politicians and that TA
(absorbing up to 1 3-18% of ail financial aid!) was inter most helpful in pushing the early reform agendas. It
then recognizes that TA was sometimes ineffective . because it was supply-driven from the donors side.
(pp.l o, 16,20-35).
With hindsight I ask myself, is that what you call ’buying yourself a reform package'?
In procuring technical assistance. the report warns us that many of the consultants "parachute in" giving
mediocre advice even as countries complain they need freedom to buy expertise as they see 111. TA, it is
confessed further on. is designed to provicte ammunition io reformist technocrats: in that sense, policy choices
arc driven by donor funding rather than the domestically formulated policies: a nice contradiction here again
with what is said earlier. I pp.20-21)
Historical!'-’. there does not seem to be a systematic relationship between structural adjustment programs and
the extent io wh>ub Abwan countries reformed, we read. It seems countries embraced sej ions reform only alter
they exhausted all oilier options, and the last option for most often meant adopting IMF SAP packages.
Most interestingly, reforms tended to occur following a crisis. ("Necessary but unpopular decisions had to be
made quick before opposition to the reforms could be mobilized"). 1 ills higltlights the role of leadership.
ideologt’. and msti’.utions Turi’tu such crises and in order io lead io a 'good" reform process. 1A
has to have done its job. (pp.6, 7,3 -12)
from T.e - c s‘i:f:es. k is clear ’hat counirics often slide back following rapid reform. Examples of reasons
gi\cn b.’i Jus slippsee i:b‘■/• / ?
increases dial had to be given >o civil scrvanl-s and political opposition,
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I fuiihei find it objectionable that the Report trivializes the role of external economic shocks and pressures in
brmginc? about and ncmcmatrn^ economic hardship in African countries. In a put-down wax. it is said that
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It contends each of these ma.de positive contributions in the 10 case studies. Bui donors used these ins inline nis
fairly indiscriminately and later, in the 1990s. did not provide appropriate debt relief. Using the wrong
instrument at the wrong time Droved wasteful and retarded reform. Tins, in concluding we arc told, calls for a
better calibration o.i mu ano reform. .
Giving aid to countries with poor '' policies '.’.ill not stimulate reform, will maintain the staius-ouo and will not
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Money can help improve policies, but the key is io disburse it when actual policy improvements have already'
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Sumrisinaiv. and despite al! the suffering thev have caused, the Report rearets the fact that .SAP loans became
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Dear Moderaior.
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follow most of the discussion groups where debates are serious.
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Chennai for the HINDU and mv areas of specialisations have been public health.
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technologies and issues related to social deprivation.
I have been writing and reporting on IHV/AIDS for more than a decade now. I have been
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Subject: |AIDS-INDIA] What is an HIV Microbicide?
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 21:39:58 -0000
From: "Joe Thomas" <joe_thomasl23@yahoo.com.au>
To: AIDS-lNDlA@yahoogroups.com
Microbicides to Prevent Heterosexual Transmission of HIV: Ten
Years Down the Road" AIDScience (01.28.02) Vol. 2; No.l
(AIDScience.org/articles/aidscience015.asp)::Janneke van de
Wijgert; Christiana Coggins
The development of topical microbicides for HIV prevention
originated in response to the deepening spread of HIV despite the
availability of an effective HIV prevention tool (condoms).
Without an HIV vaccine, condoms or microbicides are the most
feasible method of HIV prevention. However, consistent condom use
remains difficult to achieve due to resistance to condom use in
some settings. Women often have limited ability to get their male
partners to use condoms due to social, cultural and economic
gender inequalities. The female condom has increased the options
of some women but their long-term acceptability is questioned,
and female condoms cannot be used without the cooperation of men.
A microbicide is a product applied topically inside the
vagina or rectum to prevent infection with HIV and potentially a
number of bacterial and viral STDs. These may take the form of a
gel, cream or suppository and may or may not be spermicidal (have
a contraceptive effect). There are some indications that some
microbicides may be used to prevent transmission of HIV from
women to their male partners and they may be versatile for use in
the rectum for anal sex.
The identification of novel microbicidal compounds is a
rapidly expanding area of HIV prevention research. An estimated
total of 56 products are currently in the pipeline: 34 are in
pre-clinical stages; 15 are in phase I safety trials, four are in
Phase II expanded safety and preliminary effectiveness trials
(Savvy cream, Emmelle gel, Lactobacillus crispatus suppository,
and Praneem Polyherbal suppository), and three are about to enter
Phase II/III trials (BufferGel and Pro-2000 gel), or Phase III
trials (Carraguard gel) effectiveness trials.
The candidates fall into four categories or combination of
categories:
1)
Products that kill or inactivate infectious pathogens - these
include detergents (like nonoxynol-9, Savvy), peroxides,
lipids, plant extracts (Praneem, gossypol), antimicrobial
peptides, monoclonal antibodies and acidic buffers. Early
hopes were pinned on over-the-counter spermicides containing
nonoxynol-9 as potential microbicides. Recent studies have
shown the nonoxynol-9 products are ineffective against HIV and
most STDs and increase the risk of genital ulceration.
2)
Products that block fusion, i.e. prevent attachment to the
mucosal surface of target cells - these include those that
specifically target HIV surface proteins or HIV receptors and
non-specific blockers that are active against multiple
organisms (Carraguard, Emmelle, Pro-2000 and Usercell) .
3)
Products that inhibit post-fusion activity by interrupting HIV
life cycle after the virus has infected the cell - these
included nucleoside/tide RT inhibitors; non-nucleoside/tide RT
inhibitors; protease inhibitors; and post-binding fusion
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[AIDS-INDIA] What is an HIV Microbicide?
inhibitors.
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Products that enhance naturally occurring vaginal defense
mechanisms. The natural vaginal flora of healthy women is
dominated by lactobacilli, which produce a number of compounds
that inhibit pathogenic microorganisms. These compounds also
maintain a low, acidic pH in the vagina. Other important
defenses are naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides and
antibodies in the vagina. A few newly developed microbicides
aim to enhance these natural defenses. They may be of
particular relevance to those countries in sub-Saharan Africa
where almost half the women of childbearing age have bacterial
vaginosis, characterized by a lack of vaginal lactobacilli.
(Products include Lactobacillus crispatus suppository,
BufferGel, Acidform gel, Protegrins, Plantibodies [monoclonal
antibodies] ) .
About 35 of the products currently in research are contraceptives
as well as microbicidal.
Much progress has been made on microbicides but many
challenges remain. Badly needed is a significant increase in
investment from both the public and private sectors. To date, no
major pharmaceutical company has made a significant investment in
this research and development. Innovative public-private
partnerships, similar to the International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative, are being explored.
Microbicides, once proven effective, need to be available
and accessible to all women who need them. Developers should aim
for over-the-counter availability and international agencies and
governments should begin early to explore distribution networks,
pricing, local manufacturing, education, regulatory processes and
increased awareness.
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Date: 1 Feb 2002 10:16:15 -0000
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Welcome to AIDS-INDIA eFORUM
AIDS-INDIA eFORUM is an electronic forum to foster communication and collaboration
among those of who are involved or interested in AIDS related issues in India. Your
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(AIDS-INDIA] Seaweed as Microbicide: Clinical trials begins.
Subject: |A1DS-1NDIA| Seaweed as Microbicide: Clinical trials begins.
Date: Fri. 1 Feb 2002 13:53:30+0530
From: "Rajesh" <buddhadev@iqara.net >
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A red seaweed used as a thickening agent in ice cream,
toothpaste and baby formula may be the next great hope for
millions of poor women seeking to protect themselves against HIV.
Human clinical trials of Carraguard, a gel made from seaweed that
grows along the coasts of Novia Scotia, are scheduled to begin in
South Africa and Botswana later this year. The gel was developed
by the nonprofit Population Council. The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation plans to announce this weekend a multimillion-dollar
grant to help fund the studies, which will involve 6,000 women.
The trials will test a promising theory: that women who use
Carraguard up to an hour before intercourse can block HIV and
possibly prevent other STDs. "This would allow women to take
prevention into their own hands," says Dr. Helene Gayle, the
former chief of AIDS prevention at the CDC and a senior advisor
on HIV/AIDS at the Gates Foundation. "It is very difficult for
women in the world to negotiate safe sex and insist on their
partner using condoms. And the reason HIV is spreading is not
primarily because of women's risky behavior. It's due to risky
behavior by their male partners."
In the 1990s, Dr. David Phillips, a senior scientist at the
Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research, found that
carageenan, a seaweed-derived compound that contains large
negatively charged molecules, isn't absorbed in the body.
Researchers still aren't sure exactly how the process works.
However, it is believed that carageenan binds to the virus or to
target cells, coating them much like a layer of thick paint.
In earlier animal trials, Carraguard was found to be
effective in blocking sexually transmitted viruses such as herpes
simplex virus type 2 and human papillomavirus, as well as the
bacterial infection gonorrhea, Phillips said. Janneke va de
Wigjert, the Population Council's principal investigator on the
trials, said the next round of studies, which are expected to
cost $50 million and will require U.S. Food and Drug
Administration approval, will follow HIV-negative women for two
years. At least three other microbicide products are going into
trials this year, according to Henry Gabelnick, director of the
Global Microbicide Project.
"Trials Will Test if Seaweed Gel Can Block HIV"
Wall Street Journal (01.31.02) ::Rachel Zimmerman
Dr.Rajesh Buddhadev. MD
buddhadevOworldgatein.com
NISARG AIDS CARE CENTRE
Surat-395009, Gujarat
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Date: Fri. 01 Feb 2002 22:55:48 -0000
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The Implications of HIV/AIDS for Rural Development Policy and
Programming: Focus or. Sub-Saharan Africa: by Daphne Topouzis
Consultant. Sustainable Development Department; FAO
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institutional environment and HIV
ability to HIV/AIDS
to address HIV/AIDS?
3. Conceptual framework on the implications of HIV/AIDS for rural
development policies and programmes
3.1 Kev cross—cuttino issues
3.2 Rural 'fe'.'elsuc.ezir. policy and programme focus areas
3.2.3 Empowerment of rural women
3.2.4 Labour
3.2.5 Infrastructure
4. Rural development policy and programme planning for HIV/AIDS
4.1 Rural institutional strenorheninj/capacity building
4,1.1 Rural development sector/sub—sector
c ep 1101111 y/ vu i ne r ar-i _ 1t y asses smen t
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4.1.3 Participatory training for rural institutions and their clients
4.1.4 Policy and programme review
4.1.5 Mandate on HIV/AIDS
4.1.6 Manacement Information System on HIV/AIDS in rural areas
.his paper examines the implications of cue aiv epidemic for rural
development policies and programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and, in
particular: the inter-relationships between rural development and
HIV/AIDS; and the broad policy and programming challenges that the
epidemic rose? for rural institutions. The proposed conceptual
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positive or negative etrect on the HIV epidemic (i.e. by enhancing
mobility and strengthening urban-rural linkages, they may
inadvertently facilitate HIV transmission; by improving support and
social services, they may contain the spread and impact of the epidemic).
The following key ccir.cs cross-cut the proposed conceptual frame'
on me n.’C—icanons cc nn /.-.xDS xor ruzau. development policy ano
programming:
1. The causes and consequences of the HIV epidemic are closely
hociated with wider challenges to development, such as poverty, food
? livelihood insecurity, gender inequality. In effect, HIV/AIDS
nds to exacertace existing development v
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2. In areas heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, che catalytic effects and
systemic impact or tne epidemic on rural development may:
’ amplify existing development problems to such an extent as
to trigger structural changes (i.e. in adult and infant mortality); and/or
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the wider challenges to rural development. In other words, a
developmental rather than an AIDS-specific focus is critical to
tackling the multi-sectoral complexity of the epidemic and its
systemic impact and to ensuring the sustainability of both HIV/AIDS
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reason, me mteep^ay between mese zaccoi's needs co be considered ac
each stage of policy and programme development.
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Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development and bv the World
Food Summit in particular provide a springboard from which to
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sustainanie tiuman deveiopment are not only prerequisites tor the
revitalisation cf the rural economy, but also for effective responses
to HIV/AIDS.
8. While rural development programmes can be integrated with
HIV/AIDS prevention and mitiaation programmes, HIV/AIDS~st>ecific
policies and programmes have an important complementary role to play.
Poverty alleviation
This section examines the broad inter-relationships between poverty
tile poor; ana a_rsmative targeting criteria (suers aS acult death
and/or household dependency ratios; for poverty alleviation programmes.
Food security and sustainable livelihoods
The dynamics of labour mobility/ migration and food
security/sustainable livelihoods are critical dimensions of HIV
transmission and impact.
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sustamability of _abour-intcnsivo food production strategics, upon
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labour shortages arising from HIV/AIDS, drought, migration and other
factors. The issues or laoour shortage ana livelihood insecurity and
of food/livelihood security coping mechanisms of informal rural
institutions to HIV/AIDS impact are also examined.
impact. —is lection examines: a) une gender-spec^—u.iipacc o- ^oung
adult mortality; the gender (and age/marital status) differentiated
^^ects or HIV on household, income ana expenaitures; ana cj tne
.^^erface between formal and informal rural institutions, gender and
HIV/AIDS as manifested in traditional social safety net mechanisms for
women, such as widow inheritance, and the implications of the adverse
The heterogeneity of labour is highlighted as a critical factor in the
analysis or the impact or tne epidemic. Human rights, production ana
productivity issues, employment and labour market issues resulting
from the impact of HIV/AIDS are examined in terms of their policy and
orecramme development implications. More specifically: the role of the
costs are anaxyseci m tne context. cz HIv/AxDS.
1nrrestructure
The implications of construction, maintenance and operation of rural
infrastructure are examined in term? of their potential positive or
negative contribution to the spread and impact of the epidemic. The
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policies ano programmes are essential elements ot any response to
SlV/MDS. The need to develcr capacity-building strategies to improve
the plar.-.i*'.'! capabilities of agricultural and rural development
institutions and to heln them cone with the loss in human resources
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tC lcLcL'S-1 CO-j-lCy and programme responses iaay
include one or severs.! of the following components of the menu of
options proposed below:
I. Rural development sector/sub-sector susceptibility/vulnerability
assessment *h.-.v
end how is a sector/sub—sector vulnerable to HIV/Al DS?
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so as to influence how planners and policy-makers think, how they plan
^^•ton.ses and set policies.
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and impact or ^ne epidemic; m enhance multi-secxOiax collaboration
among rural development programmes; and to integrate rural development
programmes with. HIV/Al D S prevention and mitigation programmes.
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[AIDS-INDIA] NEW DELHI: AIDS awareness campaign launched
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] NEW DELHI: AIDS awareness campaign launched
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:28:12+0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: FXB INDIA
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com >
AIDS awareness campaign launched
The Statesman 2 February 2002 New Delhi
NEW DELHI, Feb. 1. - Distribution of over 32,000 condoms and 18 lakh contact
cards along-with setting up of 807 camps are the highlights of the
"Family Health Awareness Campaign" launched today by the Delhi chief minister,
Mrs. Sheila Diksh.it.
The 20-day awareness campaign, being organised by the Delhi State AIDS Control
Organisation, will crate awareness about the epidemic through nukkad natak, magic
and film shows, community gathering and discussions.
About 3000 banners and 80,000 posters have been put up at dispensaries, hospitals,
basti vikas kendras and slums clusters.
Mrs. Di'Rshit, who asked for bigger participation from voluntary groups, said free
medical check-ups and drugs will be given to patients at the camps.
Over 800 non-governmental organisations have been taking part in the campaign.
Prayas1 Institute of Juvenile Justice, a voluntary group, will target street and
working children.
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(AIDS-INDIA] Positive Womens' National Consultation
. Subject: (AIDS-INDIA) Positive Womens'National Consultation
Date: Sat. 02 Feb 2002 18:15:01 -0000
From: "Positive Women of South India" <poswonet@holmail.com>
To: AIDS-INDlA@yahoogroups.com
Positive Womens' National Consultation.
POSITIVE FACES AND VOICES OF WOMEN FROM INDIA
We the Positive Women of South India are organizing a National women's
Consultation & workshop "Positive faces and voices of women from India"
from the Sth to the 11th of March 2002, at Chennai.
The first two days would have only women living with HIV as
participants. On the third and fourth days the sessions are open for women
activists, NGOs, and the Government representatives.
The number of participants has been limited to 75, of which 35 are
Women living with HIV and 15 are women activities. There are 5 men
living with HIV, 10 steering committee members and 10 support staff/
volunteers also will be participating in the consultation and workshop.
Please note only women activists, and women living with HIV, can
participate. Therefore, whoever is interested in such issues, may
contact us with their details by the Sth of February.
Kousalya
POSITIVE WOMEN NETWORK OF SOUTH INDIA
23, BRINDAVAN STREET, WEST MAMBALAM, CHENNAI-33. INDIA
Ph. 3711176, 4717363.
E-mail: poswonet@hotmail.com
Outline of the consultation and the workshop
TITLE: 'POSITIVE FACES AND VOICES OF WOMEN FROM INDIA'
ORGANISING ENTITY: THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL
CONSULTATION FOR HIV POSITIVE WOMEN (consisting of women
representatives from INP+, PWN+, DNP+, PAN, MNP+ (Manipur), MNP+
(Maharashtra, ICW, Positive Life, Sahara)
ELECTED CORE GROUP: INP+, ICW, PAN, PWN+
ELECTED EXECUTING AGENCY:
POSITIVE WOMEN NETWORK OF SOUTH INDIA
BRINDAVAN STREET, WEST MAMBALAM, CHENNAI-33
Ph. 3711176, 4717363. Email: poswonet@hotmail.com
23,
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SUPPORT AGENCY: INDIAN NETWORK FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS (INP+)
INTRODUCTION
Women representatives of the agencies referred to above established in
April 2001 a Steering Committee to plan and process the work towards
increased attention and response to the issues related to women and
HIV/AIDS in India. Two Steering Committee meetings have already been
held in Nev; Delhi (hosted jointly by UNAIDS and UNIFEM). The
deliberations of the Steering Committee resulted in the decision to
jointly gather the HIV positive women known to the Steering Committee
from all over India to a national consultation. In order to manage
this task, the Steering Committee agreed to form a core group of 4
members to take the lead. It was also agreed that PWN+ and INP+
collaborate in organising the consultation. PWN+ would take the lead
on the contents and be co-ordinating and handling the funds, while
INP+ would support logistically.
Positive women network of south India (PWN+)
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PWN+ is a self-help organisation of women living with HIV, registered
• under the Tamil Nadu state society's registration act in October 1998.
The organisation functions as an information centre, and its
activities include Networking, Advocacy of issues of women living with
HIV, Counselling, Training, Initiation of self-help groups of women
living with HIV, organising workshops and sensitising groups on
positive living and issues of women living with HIV/AIDS.
Background:
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has brought about a drastic global change far
more extensive than what was predicted. HIV, which was originally
considered only as a serious health problem has now clearly emerged as
a development crisis, shaking the very roots of a nation. There are
about 36.1 million people living with HIV worldwide, out of which 5.8
million are from South and South East Asia, with India, having 3.86
million people living with HIV (NACO, 2001) . Women and children
account for about 1.46 million among the total population of people
living with HIV in India and HIV/AIDS continues to emerge as one of
India's most complex epidemics; a challenge that extends beyond public
health, raising fundamental issues of human rights and drastically
affecting development.
The need to prevent the epidemic and at the same time, provide care
and support, calls for an unprecedented response from all sections of
the society. But with new infections increasing everyday, it has
become clearly apparent that the Government should take stock of its
initiative in working to control the epidemic. The Government has till
date concentrated more on prevention strategies than on providing care
and support to people living with HIV, and in involving them in their
efforts, which is one of the major factors involved in the lack of
control of HIV/AIDS in India.
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The impact of HIV/AIDS on women and children is very drastic and
acute. In many developing nations, women are already economically,
culturally and socially disadvantaged, and lack equal access to
treacment, financial support and education. Here, women are often
perceived as the main transmitters of sexually transmitted infections,
leading to further stigmatisation. Some of the issues of women include
physical ill-health, compounded due to more concentration on husband
and children's health and needs, lack of availability of proper
medication, and inability to afford those that are available;
discrimination and non-availability of treatment for even
opportunistic infections at health care centres; sudden role reversal
as a sole breadwinner of family for some women; and lack of resources
and support systems available to women and children living with HIV.
Objectives:
a) To facilitate experience sharing among women living with HIV, and
identifying critical issues.
b) To develop concrete advocacy strategies for Government and women's
organisations.
c) To elicit a strong commitment from Government agencies towards
HIV/AIDS related women's issues.
d) To establish definite follow-up activities in care and support, and
income generation for women living with HIV.
•
Expected outcomes:
The workshop would lead to the following:
a) Increased awareness among the participants of access to information
about services on all aspects related to HIV
b) List of recommendations to government officials and women's groups on
responding to the needs of HIV positive women and women's
vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS
c) Increased understanding of HIV/AIDS related issues among government
and women's groups
d) Developed concrete follow-up plan/initiatives in the field of capacity
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around us and even as we nave entered the 21st century, there is still no cure for this
most devastating disease the world has ever known. Until a vaccine or a cure is found, our
greatest weapon acir*.st H~V f 7S is knowledoe. There is an uroent need to —ducats our
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a. The foundation or zvi fee c/’areness sessions for all the zo/plovees.
c. Tne session wi'__ include all the information an individual must know about HIV/A13S
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Date: fue, 5 Feb 2002 06:15:54 -0700
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self-adminiscerea, female controlled option to prevent transmission of
STIs including HIV. And this will be no magic bullet, rather it will
widen the ranoe of existing options to prevent HIV transmission”.
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Mon 4 Feb 2002 23:27:08 -0530
From: Jagdish Harsh ' <iamworidWvsn(.com>
Tveph-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afi<b.org>
Orgauizatiou: FXB INDIA
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The Statesman 4th Feb, zuOz-New Delhi
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wa^ifestos of various state' parties for the forthcoming Assembly elections have
tor the first time in the country, perhaps, HlV/AiOS has become an election issue, with
the number of Hiy_cc-s.itive cases in the state being 12,817, parties can no longer neglect
Never ir the cast. ?0 year's had any political part.’/ taken no such issues as
^krmer minister ana president or Manipur People's Party Mr. O Joy Singh teeis the issue
snould be above part’’ politics. Mr. Chandramani, president of Federal Partv of Manipur,
feels the same. Mr. Sin oh has mooted ar. idea of forming cells within the partv structure
— spreaci awareness or tne disease among people. He said otner p-arcies G/iOuii uxjv c^>6;x
such cells.
PH Koijam of Samata Party said his party is concerned about the
live cases a^d has included the issue in their election
”We would take up whatever strong measures required to tackle the scourge." He said
tactical understand, inc? with Myanmar at the national level should be made to st or? druci
Congress <1; has put AxDS on its cop priority list and so has Democratic People’s party.
The BJP in its manifesto has called for restructuring of the state AIDS and drug
crscrravf.es ts make then. mov*e effective.
..■is Kmc _ i-.itiative <.o coivioau uae disease _on political level couict nave come sooner,
s^d.d the Manipur State AIDS Control Society Project director, Dr. Khomdon.
’’The bad news is today HIV has moved to general population and the rate of infection among
children and women is at 2 ore cent.
In Africa, AIDS infection among children and women
grew _ir_ixic e- per cent co rie_a.rx.y_ 6‘G per cent in a span ci~ j years.. _r we aon’t take
proactive action now, in 5 years we will oe no better, we must learn from the African
experience."
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From: Jagdish Harsh <janworid avsni.com>
Roa'v-To! ’’JcL'Jisli llsrsh" ^hsrsh
Organization: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA)
To: "AIDS INDIA" < A TDS-TNDTA ff^ahoogroops corn>
G'-vernnent organisation ano. I'GOs are trying to break down the stigma associated with AIDS
campaign. Medical advice and cr.ecx-ups are oeing provided free in nine different health
centres. The co^ernmerr, NGOs ?.nn nanv international organisations have, from time to
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families, ana to the doctors who are treating them co tnose who know the real story
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m iniaa, riiv is "tao-z ." and when talked about at all it tends to oe either in a sexually
•’ocular wav or in hu-Tned tones. Since relatively few peotle of the total population have
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cathe^ed from ether cov-ntri^-s? Or again, h^w wch nlannino shoved bo left to NGOs and to
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it is up co tnem to prevent mothers passing on the virus when They give hirer: and through
breast feeding, so they have co make .sure that suitable milk is available and can be
mis is a big ask simply because it concerns people not only al- over the country out also
with different le_.’-l.? of -imrim and different customs and mindsets. It includes
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Organization: FXB INDIA
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not been easy. NACO's first choice was high visibility entertainment channels like Star
suffering from AIDS into their storyboard. Perhaps with the start of two new
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[AIDS-INDIA] Politics. Mainsteaming, AIDS and Sexual minorities in India
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Politics, Mainsteaming, AIDS and Sexual minorities in India
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:22:15 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Aditya Bondyopadhyay" <adit_bond_2@yahoo.co.in >
To: AlDS-INDAI@yahoogroups.com
Hi,
The past week has been a watershed of sorts for myself as various events tumbled out
over the week and I wish to share it with you all on all the various lists. What
happened has portents for sexual minority politics, sexual minority in mainstream
politics, and for HIV/AIDS.
Like all story let me begin at the begining. Last Saturday People for the rights of
Indian Sexual Minorities [PRISM], a Delhi based group of individuls working for the
rights of sexual minorities in India but also having faith in building alliances
with other groups of opressed people like the women's movement, slum dwellers, et
al, was given space to have a stall in the most happening place in Delhi, namely
'Delhi Haat'. A board was put up at one prominent junction of the Haat where an
impromptu opinion poll was taken. The statement put out was "being homosexual is
normal". Small chits were given out to whosoever wanted to jot their opinion and the
responses were pinned up either to the left of the board if the response was "I
Agree", or to the right if it was "Disagree".
Response was overwhelming and the age range of respondents were from school kids to
grandmothers. Daddies and sons wrote out and stuck their opinion chits togeher on
the board. And by the end of the day, the agree side of the board had spilled over
well into the space reserved for the disagree side of the board. By more than 25 to
one the average haat going middle class persons of Delhi had found no abnormality
with homosexuality.
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But semantics of polls aside, what was more important was that there was that there
was an activist with a poster stuck on his back exclaiming in LOUD letters "GAY &
PROUD". He did not even raise eyebrows. No body gave a fig as to him being gay. A
real life substantiation of the fact that the poosters were not just polling
politically correctly, they really found nothing awkward in being gay.
PRISM tied up with a street theater group, who enacted a play on homosexuality,
homosexual love, and the kind of problems that homosexuals face. By the end of the
day there were 3 encore performances. The public came, saw, and enjoyed.... with
fathers, daughters, moms, sons, friends, all gathered around and no elder trying to
hustle away a child from such "bad things". Leafet given were read and not thrown
away, but tucked into purses and pockets, queries being made on how prism or similar
groups can be contacted should some one they know need help. I could not help
thinking that most people know of some one or the other who is homosexual, and this
information was being kept to aid them should they need so.
On to Sunday last, at the NDTV studios in Delhi. It was shooting time for Bharkha
Dutts people's talk show "We the People". They were to discuss the laws on
homosexuality. What brought it on was the petition filed by Naz India challenging
the vires of 377 in the Delhi High Court. In the crowd of 100 were various LGBT
activists including myself, the historian Saleem Kidwai [co-author of the
meticulously researched 'same sex love in India - readings from literature and
history'], one Additional Solicitor General, the token IPS guy Uday Sahai, the token
Psychiatrist, and the BJP MP VK Singhal. The opening shot was given by the hon'ble
MP about the need to criminalise as homosexuals were in every which way appaling to
India, Indians, Culture and what have you. Along the way Mr. Sahai did his out of
turn and out of context pitch on Lucknow, doling out a story that is probably the
n-zillioneth version of the lie coming from the police camp, and quiet
coincidentally much in varience of the report that the police themselves have filed
in the courts. The learned ASG threw in his hat for the need to criminalise and the
good psychiatrists went against the grain of world psychiatric opinion on
homosexuality, hee-hawed, and tied himself up in knots. But all these people were
what we call the establishment. The drivers for the powers that be. Their attitude
was important because suddenly in the midst of all this I realised why NACO had not
defended its policies in public when the police in Lucknow were so effectively
shredding and rubbshing it. They could not because they are part of the same
establishment. They are not courageous fighters for the truth, the just, or what
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they themselves say they belive in. They are driven by these drivers and therefore
by these attitudes. No wonder I also felt the fear of what it means for the AIDS
containtion movement in India.
Talking of AIDS, because the debate from the inception hinged on the morality and
1indianness' of homosexuality, Criminalisation and how it impacts HIV intervention
could not become a main theme of the debate. But what is heartening is that other
than the establishment the rest of the "People" came out strongly on the side of the
"Oppressors", and some of their simple logic quite literally floored the
establishment-wallas. It was quiet amusing to see their attemts at establishing the
validity of their hatred by dogma, convoluted logic on culture, and plain simple
Joseph Goebblesisms.
Again I could see that the common person does not have the greater homophobia that
we apprehend. The average mother, the average brother, the average friend, does not
judge by sexual orientation. They judge by what one means when sexual orientation is
kept aside. The fact that this has happened is what I feel is the positive in the
political struggle of sexual minorities. The real fight is with the establishment
wallas and their attituted. It is they who would not hesitate to give cultural,
indianness, or any other twist, if they see any king of political mileage being
gained by having another punching bag around. It is them that we have to deal with
by using the best arsenals we have- truth, good science, honesty, justice, and our
human rights to be who we are.
[Note: This programme is scheduled to be telecast at 8PM 1ST on the star news
Channel on the 17th February 2002.]
Then I came over to Lucknow on work. Here one of the political heavyweight has a
challenger who is a eunuch. Lalji Tandon of the BJP has been having quiet a fight
from this gutsy person, namely Payal, a candidate for the Rashtriya Communist Party.
She held a meeting yesterday and in her campaign, quiet a few members of the sexual
minority population from all over joined in. A public coming out of the closet of
sorts after the Kristellnacth days last July in Lucknow. And today the press has
gone to town about hows gays have come to the aid of Payal. There are big articles
in the 'Indian Express", "Times of India", "Asian Age", and most of the Hindi
Newspapers. Of course the political camps of Mr. Tandon has given the necesary spin
about how the participation of gays is either a conspiracy of the rebel BJP/RSS
persons who do not love Tandonji, or how it is their handiwork to spoil Tandonji's
chances at the hustings.
But I am more pleased with the fact that the candidate and her party have courted
gay men/homosexuals with open arms and have publicly stated that their rights to be
needs to be respected. I hear from reports tat there are eunuch candidates being
fielded in these elections by quiet a few parties including the congress. I would be
interested in knowing if they as parties share this same opinion and if so what they
propose to do about it. Thus far there are no answers. But what is clear is that
collectively sexual minorities of all hues are becoming a political force and not
very far from today, I feel, the establishment wallas can no more hide behing their
hatred and homophobia and ignore the fact that sexual minorities are human beings
with human rights that cannot be denied them just to abet their own personal
bigotry. With these elections I see that the silence has finally been broken.
If rights are at the root of effective intervention for HIV/AIDS, then this can only
mean a better future, homophobia of the estblishment wallas aside.
When Shabnam mausi became a legislator, or when the other eunuchs were elected in
the past, there were e-mail traffic on the net asking if they were able to help in
any way in furthering the cause of sexual minority rights. After what happened at
Payal's campaign, I feel that sexual minority activists [myself included] in the
past have erred in not reaching out to these elected representatioves or by not
providing support in their candidacy days. That I feel shall not be a mistake
repeated by us in the future. We cannot come to the reaping to toil, and yet expect
a share of the harvest.
The piticizing of sexual minority in the mainstream of politics has begun, I fingers
crossed, I hope only for the better.
Love and regards
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Gove announces new pharma policy
The government, on Friday, announced the pharmaceutical policy 2002
turnover of less than Rs xv Ouiillion from the control requite.
Laying down a two^ticr criterion for regulation of prices the policy
spells oul measures for boosting research and development by
exempting drugs developed indigenously. Moving towards decontrol
reg Hue of drugs, the exemption limit has been raised to Rs lOOmillion
from the earlier Rs 40million. A bulk drug will come under price
^Aprol if its total moving annual turnover (MAT) is more than Rs
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2/20/02 10:26 AM
5S-INDIA] Mandatory Pre-marriage AIDS test In Mumbai ?
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Mandatory Pre-marriage A IDS lest In Mumbai ?
Date: Tuc, 19 Feb 2002 13:35:39 -0000
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State Health Minister Dr Digvijay Khanvilkar says mandatory HIV
testing is an encroachment of human rights. "You can't compel people
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forcing it down ponpia'A necks, that too in a city like Mumbai," he
says. Adds a government hospital doctor, "Dy making the tests
compulsory, you are assuming that everyone’s sexually promiscuous.
This is a gross violation of human rights. Besides, who will work as
the watchdog?"
In Uganda, in the early '30s, a public appeal for HIV testing was
made afeer 4u per cent of the population was found to be HIV
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says Dr J K Maniar, Grant Medical College, "You can't force anything
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>S-INDIA1 HIV: Talk before vou test
Subject: [AIDS-INPL4] HTV; Talk before you test
Bate: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:38:09 -0000
From: geetanja1inato1e@indiatimes.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
HIV: Talk before you test
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developing country like India is proving Lo be a varied challenge.
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process, it is often what can make all the difference between life
and death for the oerson takina the HIV test.
Which is why pre test counselling is de rigeur m medxcal facilities
rhe world over and admirced to, as a necessity, even by HIV experts
in the city. Most hospitals in the city this reporter visited were
not equipped with counselling cells to provide any such facilities.
A standard pre test counselling procedure assesses the patient's rxsk
factor through a series of queries and prepares him/her to accept the
test result confidently.
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director of the National p d Ho so arch.
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required ror the HIV test. The counsellor is then supposed to ask the
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Noted HIV expert £>r Sanjay Fujari also cited the sheer number of
people going in for test as the reason for the absence of pre test
counselling for HIV. "The number is so mind boggling that the
hospital authorities cannot cater to all the patients that go in for
a test. Besides, the tradition of medicine in India has always been
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[AIDS-JNDIA] Sex workers "Shanti Utsav" in Kolkata.
Subject: |AIDS-IND1A] Sex workers "Shanti Utsav" in Kolkata.
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:16:40 +0530
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Subject: Fwd: Shanti Utsav
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Subject: Shanti Utsav
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:01:04+0530
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Organised by
DURBAR
(Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee)
Venue : Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Salt Lake, Kolkata. India
From March 3rd to the 9th, 2002.
Durbar, a forum of 60000 sex workers (male, female and trans gender) and their support groups and individuals has been involved in
networking among sex workers in India and across the world, helping sex-workers to unite and to uphold the rights of sex-workers.
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Commiltee(DMSC), the sex workers collective, explicit about its political objectives of fighting fora more
secure legal status for sex workers and their children and protection of their rights. DMSC strongly demands dccriminalisation of adult
prostitution and social recognition of sex work as a valid profession
KNP+(Kolkata Network of Positive, collective of PLWHA) is part of the umbrella organization of Durbar working together to express
themselves to the general mass about the pros and cons of being positive. They want to stand by all people who arc positive so that they
or their families do not feel to be alien to the community. KNP+ provide Antiretroviral to PLWHA through the support of Durbar
The members of Durbar, would like to convey the message of peace and harmony across the world. To strengthen the peace movement
in city and abroad we have planed to organise a festival named "Santi Utsab" in the second year of the new millennium. We wish
everybody peace and happiness, breaking all the barriers of state, religion, gender and race. We hope to bring together more than 40
thousands participants during this meet.
Hope we fulfill our aspiration of a peaceful and happy world for the coming future.
Please feel free to forward this message to others who you think are committed to the cause of equality and peace.
Who are we?
Usha Multipurpose_Copp_erative Society Limited, Usha for short, is a financial cooperative institution, constituted sojely by sex workers.
Usha is part of a larger loosely affiliated association of sex workers organisations based in West Bengal, India that has collectively come
to be known as Durbar (durbar in Bengali meaning unstoppable or indomitable).
The affiliated sex workers organisations in DURBAR
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee(DMSC)
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From 1992 sex workers involved in an internationally acclaimed HIV prevention intervention programme (STD/HIV Intervention
Programme, widely known as the Sonagachi Project) operating in red light districts of Calcutta had started mobilising around demands
for promotion and protection of sex workers rights. In 1993, they organised themselves into an informal association, which assumed an
increasingly formal character and was later registered under the law as DMSC, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (Durbar
Committee for Co-ordination of Women) in 1995. DMSC, an autonomous organisation of sex workers, functions an exclusive forum of
women, men and transgender sex workers, both brothel-based and mobile populations, and their children, and has 66 branches and a
membershij?_pf 50000 sex workers across West Bengal, India
DMSC itself, along with Usha as one of the primary stakeholders, has been running the STD/HIV prevention intervention from 1999
(DFIRKhaving taken over from the consortium of NGOs, CBOs and the Alflndia Institute of Hygiene and Public HeaTthTCalcutta,
which initially implemented the programme. Apart from mobilising sex workers in the districts of West Bengal DMSC has started
STD/HIV intervention programme, replicating the Sonagachi model, in 19 red light areas. DMSC has also started HIV intervention
among street-based sex workers and their clients, covering a population of over 12000, through drop in centres for counselling, referral
STD care services and mobilisation among streel-based sex workers
Apart from its direct involvement in HIV prevention, DMSC and the other affiliated sex workers organisations under Durbar, has been
active in addressing the other structural issues that frame the everyday reality of sex workers lives, be they related to their material
deprivation, their social exclusion or the stigma attached be being a sex worker or her child. It is explicit about its political objective of
fighting fora secure social existence of sex workers and their children. DMSC demands decriminalisation of adult prostitution it all its
aspects; social recognition of sex work as a valid occupation; and establishment of sex workers right to self-determination DMSC also
seeks to abolish or reform all laws that restrict the human rights of sex workers and limits their enfranchisement as full citizens. To
regulate the exploitation of sex workers within the sex industry DMSC has already set up a senes of local Self-Regulatory Boards in
selected red light areas in Calcutta. These Boards, like other professional associations like the Indian Medical Association or the Bar
Council, act as the principal arbitrator in cases of violation of sex workers rights within the trade The Boards also stipulate, once again
like other occupational associations, some minimum standards for joining the sex industry of which consent and age are the two main
principles The members of DMSC contend that their own efforts at regulating the norms within the sex industry would act as much
more efficient deterrent to exploitation within the industry, be it underage prostitution or trafficking, than slate coercion or censure and
control by the society al large.
DMSC has been taking other steps to improve the immediate working and living conditions of sex workers loo. The members of the
DMSC have organised rallies and demonstrations against specific instances of trouble caused by local hooligans, against extortion and
harassment by the local police, protested against forcible AIDS surveillancefl] and unauthorised vaccine trial[2] and have stopped
eviction of individual or entire groups of sex workers from their homes or localities.
Usha Multipurpose Co-operative Society
Limited(USHA)
One of the most significant steps that sex workers united under DMSC had taken to increase their economic security is to register a
consumer co-operative (Usha Co-operative and Multipurpose Stores Limited, Usha) in the name of sex workers, in August 1995. The
sex workers were successful in persuading the Slate Government to remove the relevant clause from the Cooperative law so that they
could register the cooperative with their occupational status as sex workers rather than being passed off as ubiquitous housewives . The
registration of the Co-operative also marks an important strategic advantage for DMSC in their struggle to re-frame the definitions and
meanings of their occupation Members of the Committee hope to use the fact that a state institution has formally recognised
prostitution as the Co-operative member s profession, as leverage in their campaign for social recognition of sex work and sex workers'
right to self-determination
Through this Co-operative, they provide crdchc facilities for children of sex workers during business hours, which also give
employment to out-of-work sex workers They run a thriving savings and credit schemes for Co-operative members. They undertake
social marketing of condoms in 40 red light districts of West Bengal through a special team of members, the Basanli Sena and have
started training for initiating a production unit.
Usha and DMSC members are very emphatic that the Co-operative is not meant for economic 'rehabilitation' of sex workers who are in
the trade, but is designed to provide a financial resource for them to fall back on in moments of crises, and to minimise their economic
desperation by creating a space for negotiation. Moreover, they hope that the Basanti Sena will not only travel around different parts of
the country for social marketing of condoms, but will also help in acquainting more and more sex workers with the aims and objectives
of the sex workers movement. In short, UMSCL provides soft loans and small savings opportunity to sex workers, creates alternative
jobs for sex workers, docs social marketing of condoms and other essentials and plans to start a large scale production unit for
generating employment for retired sex workers and those who want to opt out of sex work.
Having developed the necessary technical expertise and infrastructure, Usha now also operates as the principle financial institution for
the range of range of sex workers organisations affiliated loosely under Durbar, and handles grants from external agencies for them
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KOMOL GANDHAR
One important way in which the organised sex workers have been attempting to carve out a positive identity for themselves is through
cultural self-expression. They formed Komol Gandhar, as a cultural wing constituted exclusively of sex workers and their children, to
represent their thinking and lives through music, dance, plays, painting and writing. For a group of sex workers coming from diversecultural backgrounds Komol Gandhar created an opportunity for them to explore their cultural heritage and preserve and expand their
cultural expressions. Komol Gandhar has now emerged as a platform for exchanging various cultural traditions, across linguistic,
religious and regional barriers and for forging a common identity as sex workers and has become a critical political tool in the sex
workers movement. It has enabled a wide section of the sex workers community to participate in the sex workers movement through
cultural activities in which many of them were already skilled.
POSITIVE HOTLINE
DMSC runs testing, counselling and care services for HIV/STD through its independent wing, Positive Hotline Positive Hotline aims to
promote positive attitudes towards care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS This initiative addresses the needs of scrum
positive people and their families to cope with the social and psychological traumas associated with being HIV positive and extend its
sendees beyond sex workers communities into the general population. When a sero-positivc person contacts the Positive Hotline.
Positive Hotline teams visit them in their locality to extend moral and material support and to sensitise the local community. The thrust
of this initiative is to challenge social constructions of AIDS patients in general and the misconceptions and apathy among the health
professionals. Positive Hotline also provides specialised training to other groups, organises hospital care for people with AIDS and has
recently started a city counselling centre for people afflicted with various sexual dysfunction
Sathi Sangathan
In another dynamic development, the Babus or fixed clients of sex worker members of DMSC, have recently formed their own
collective. Sathi Sangathan or the Companions' Collective, for fighting alongside with DMSC against all kinds of violence faced by sex
workers, their children and their clients.
Sramajeebi Mahila Sangha
Sramajeebi Mahila Sangha is one of the oldest surviving self-help groups of sex workers based in Sethbagan and has been an active
partner of the Durbar family.
Binodini Srameek Union
Members of DMSC other Durbar affiliates share a common premise, that prostitution is not a moral condition but an occupation and as
sex workers they are working women, and men, who like many other working women arc engaged in a marginal, sexist, exploitative
and low-status job. For most sex workers, working in the sex industry is not an irrational act of desperation, but a rational choice made
from the very limited options available, particularly to poor, unskilled women, in a capitalist and patriarchal society. The rallying slogan
of the National Conference, - sex work is legitimate work, we want workers rights , has now become the immediate strategic aim for
securing basic needs as human beings. To this end sex workers have applied for registration of their own trade union, Binodini Srameek
Union. >From 1998 Durbar has celebrated the International Labour Day every year by organising a midnight torchlight rallies
foregrounding their demand for workers rights and through the formation of the trade union they want to take this struggle forward and
join the larger international labour movement for the autonomy of workers.
The Millennium Mela
As part of Durbar s on-going effort to put sex workers rights on the global agenda in the new millennium, we al Durbar Mahila
Samanwaya Committee organized a carnival, the Millennium Mela, as a meeting ground for all sex workers of the world. - of all class,
creed or gender, as well as organisations and individuals committed to the rights of sex workers and their children, to gather together
and meefface to face. Al the Mela we celebrate our lives and our struggle and exchange our stories as part of our unrelenting movement
to change histories.Around 25000 sex workers representing 16 countries and about 30000 peoples from different walks of life attended
during 5 days of the Mela.
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Why are we holding the Mela this year[Shanli utsab]?
From 1996, DMSC has regularly convened stale and national level meetings of sex workers organisations in India, which have also
been attended by policy makers, politicians and administrators. The most notable of these have been the First National Conference of
Sex Workers if India in 1997, on the theme Gator khaatiye khaai, sranieeker adhikar chaai (We labour for our living, we want workers
rights) and its follow-up Strategy Summit in 1998, which initiated the formation of the National Network of Sex Workers in India, and
took the sex workers movement to the national arena
We have also attended numerous national and international meetings, workshops, seminars and conferences to talk about our rights and
ourselves. But this lime we want to inscribe our identity on the public arena in our own inimitable style No pre-imposed formats. No
centralised control. No faceless formalities But a celebration of life and of love through debates, discussions and dancing. Through
songs and smiles we will build solidarity. We want to get together with other sex workers from across the country and beyond io think
through our lives and think beyond our everyday struggles towards building a collective future unfettered by deprivation, stigma and
violence Not just for us, the community of sex workers, but for the entire world.
What will happen at the Mela?The theme of this year is peace,we call it santi utsab.
One of the central focuses of the Mela will be an interactive installation on the history of sex work and sex workers movement in India
We will also hold a Health Fair, with facilities of counselling and testing for STDs There will be a number of open and indoor stages,
for continuous cultural performances by sex workers and other performing artists. For those of us wanting to get down to serious
discussions, a number of symposiums, workshops and dialogues will be held on a whole range of subjects, from role of sex workers in
combating trafficking to peace-building in an increasingly conflict-ridden world. Throughout the Millennium Mela we will also show
panorama of Indian films with sex workers as the central characters. Moreover, there will be numerous stalls selling handicrafts and
mementos, food and drinks, tricks and treats. And of course no Mela can ever be a success without the big old merry-go-round, and
vendors selling candyfloss and balloons. Above all we promise a bundle of fun, a real carnival of colours.
The Objectives of the Mela
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The principal objective of the Mela is to spread the messages of peace,love and soliderity across the class creed and nationality. We
aspire for a free, safe and happy environment for the people of the universe as a whole..We the sex workers from across India and other
countries will come together to express our views,will share and celebrate our lives, our histories and movements[presenl and past]
'
The Mela would also provide a platform for different sex workers groups to showcase their cultural skills through staging of plays,
music soirees, and dances.
At the Mela skill building workshops would provide capacity building opportunities for sex workers in networking & mobilisation,
leadership, violence mitigation and communication skills.
The Mela would also provide an opportunity for sex workers to sell handicrafts, food and other items produced by them.
At the Mela sex workers community would have an opportunity to hold face-to-face dialogues with elected representative, political
leaders, representatives of slate and other civil society institutions like the police, media, performing artists, trade unionists, women
activists, gay right activists and intellectuals.
[
Foregrounding the rich cultural heritage of our country for the entertainment and intellectual stimulation of the sex worker delegates
is another objective. This would be done through continuous performances by various folk artists from Bengal, a festival of films of
Indian movies with sex worker protagonists and an Artists Camp where prominent painters would develop paintings on the themes of
sex workers movement.
;
One principal objective of the Mela is to provide information on H1V/A1DS to the delegates. Towards this purpose a Health Fair
will be held, with an exhibition and testing and counselling services for STDs
A central objective of the Mela would be to represent the history of sex workers participation in National freedom movement besides
our historical contribution in ensuring peace and prosperity in different countries and in communities.Attempt would be made to track
down the process of development of the global sex workers movement. This will be done through staging an interactive installation
(exhibition) at the Mela ground.
Registration for Stall Booking at
Shanti Ulsab[sex workers carnival or Mela]
Calcutta 3rd t0 9th March 2002
■
At Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Calcutta, India
Please Print or Type.
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participate.
Name of the organisation
(in block letters)
Organisation Represented:
Mr./Ms.
(with address)
Phone- (with STD/ISD code)
Fax' (with STD/ISD code)
e-mail: (if any)
Status of the organisation
Sex Worker s organisation
(please give a 5)
Organisation working for sex workers
NGOs working on other issues
Commercial enterprise
Personal address & Phone No.
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of the Representative:
1 We need accomodation- Yes/No
If yes. Number of heads-
N ote: accomodation and food(lunch & dinner) is provided free of cost only for sex workers form 3rt* March to 71’1 March 12 noon)
those who are
Name
Male/Female
2
not able to pay
3.
Date of arrival at the Mela:
Date of departure from the Mela.
Size of the stall:
10' x 10' == 100 Sq. Feet
Registration fees:
a. NIL (for sex workers organisation)
b. All other participants have to pay
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1.
Rs. 5.000/- for the stall (without light fittings).
2.
Charges of the light fitting Rs. 500/- per stall.
3.
Charges of electricity free of cost
4.
Cost of Insurance will be bom by the party at actual
5.
Cost for extra (as per requirement) furniture will be charged as per following details:
i)
Garden Chair @ Rs. 5/- each
ii)
Furniture (Rack /Self etc.) @ Rs. 20/- each
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iii)
Tube light Rs. 50/- each
iv )
Extra Hallogen light Rs. 125/- each
Terms & Conditions:
Applicant must declare the purpose for which the stall will be hired
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) reserves all right to accept or reject applications for hiring of stalls
All the applications should be accompanied by Money Order I Demand Draft of Rs. 2,000/- in favour of Durbar Mahila
Samanwaya Committee A/c Millennium Mela payable at Calcutta . If the application for stall is cancelled by the DMSC authority,
deposited amount will be refunded within 10 days of the completion of the Millennium Milan Mela in case the applicant wishes to
withdraw application after registration for stall, Rs. 1,000/- will be deducted from their deposited amount. Balance amount will be paid
by Cash or Demand Draft on 51'1 of March 2001 in between 12 noon to 4 pm. at Mela Office.
Last date of application for stall is 21.02 2002
1
Last date of scruitiny and allotment is 23.02.2002
Sex workers organisations will be allotcd stall free of cost subject to certain conditions
*
* Application from sex workers organisation will have to be accompanied by documents proving that the organisation is indeed
constituted solely by sex workers.
Please Note.
Organisations who arc working for sex workers have to bear full charge for hiring a stall.
Mail to:
Santi Utsab
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee
12/5 Nilmoni Mitra Street
Calcutta 700 006, India
Phone: +91 33 543-7451 / 7560
Fax: +91 33 543-7451
e-mail: shipfocal.vsnl.net.in
sonagachifosi ty.com
Registration for Participants
At Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata, India
Please Print or Type.
Please feel free to forward this to others who you think are committed to the promoting sex workers rights and would be interested to
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[AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists vi...: Urgent call for global soltdariy
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists violated: Urgent call for global solidariy
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:19:49 +0530
From: "drashok" <drashok@crscal.org>
To: "AIDS-India forum" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear Forum subscribers,
This is really pathetic. Driving out sex workers has never been a solution
in any part of the World. I think, NACO and the concerned State AIDS society
should take up the issue and try to educate the officials and other leaders.
Intervening in such real life situations is only going to prove our
credibility as HIV/AIDS workers.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Agarwal, MBBS, MD
South Asia, Regional Technical Advisor- HIV/AIDS
Catholic Relief Services
4/2 Orient Row, Kolkata - 700 017
India
Tel. No. 91-33-247 6433/1969
Fax No. 91-33-240 8652
E-mail : drashok@crscal.org
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[AIDS-INDIA] WTHAT IS NACO DOING? Re: AIDS activists/CSWs violated
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] WTHAT IS NACO DOING? Re: AIDS activists/CSWs violated
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:05:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Aditya Bondyopadhyay <adit_bond@yahoo.com>
To: AIDS-lNDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear All,
Breaking the silence is the accepted Mantra in the world of HIV/AIDS prevention. But
in India, the apex body responsible for control of the AIDS epidemic is known more
for its silence when it comes to such atrocities against AIDS activism.
I urge NACO to shun its silence for once [for gods and political demi-gods and HIV
victims sake] and do something, even if it a public statement to the effect that
VAMP is entitled to the work they are doing and that it is necessary for the
prevention of the HIV epidemic in the country.
Hoping against hope to hear what NACO has done about this soon.
Regards and with grave concern
Aditya Bondyopadhyay
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Mail to.
Shanti Vlsab
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee
12/5 Nilmoni Mitra Street
Calcutta 700 006. India
Phone: +91 33 543-7451 / 7560
Fax:+91 33 543-7451
e-mail: shipi'u cal.vsnl.net.in
sonagachiftf’si fy.com
Name's of participants
Sex workers
Non-Sex workers
(Block Letters):
1.
(if necessary please attach
Organisation Represented:
Address:
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Phone: (with STD/ISD code)
Fax: (with STD/ISD code)
e-mail: (if any)
Status of the organisation
Sex Worker s organisation
(please give a 5)
Sex Worker s support organisation
NGOs working on other issues
I We wish to participate as a
Delegate
Speaker
(please giva a 5)
Workshop or sub-event organiser
Exhibitor
Performer
Journalist
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I We need accommodation: Yes/No
It yes. Number of heads:
Note: accommodation and food (lunch & dinner) is provided free of cost only for sex workers form 3'^ March to 71’1 March 12 noon)
those who are not able to pay.
Name
Male/Female
4.
5.
Date of arrival at the Mela:
Date of departure from the Mela:
Registration fees:
a. NIL (for sex workers male, female, trans gender)
b. Other participants have to buy a ticket of Rs. 5/- to enter the Mela arena.
Please submit your requirements with the following information.
I / We like to use your Flexi Forum for (please give a 5)
Net Work Meeting
Seminar / Workshop
Cultural Programme
Debate session in the mela
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Other, please specify
Title of the Topic:
Theme of the cultural programme.
Duration:
Number of participants:
Approximate size of the space for the said programme-
Please note:
0
Venue and public address system would be provided free of cost to sex workers organisation only. (Sex workers
organisation will have to provide evidence that they are indeed constituted solely by sex workers).
U
All the applications should be accompanied by Money Order / Demand Draft of
Rs. 5.000/- in favour of Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee payable at Calcutta for arranging the above-mentioned programme.
0
For special lighting and for other arrangements (like arrangements of light refreshments / lunch, dinner etc special
logistical support for Seminar etc.) Mela authority has to be informed before 25l" of February 2001. The costs of these will have to be
met by the applicant/s.
0
A service centrer will available at Mela arena to provide tools for presentation against service charges (Slide projector I
Overhead projector / Laptop / Multimedia etc.).
U
We can also arrange special events if intimated in advance.
[1 jin September 1993, a group of doctors, working under a state institution, in collaboration with a NGO, entered Sonagachi red light
area, with police protection and forcibly drew blood sample from 50 sex workers in the name of HIV/AIDS surveillance.
[2]ln 1995. an HIV vaccine was tested on sex workers in Boubajar red light district, Calcutta, without informing them or without thenconsent and even without any clearance from WHO or FDA, USA.
SHANTI ITS AB-2002
Tentative Programme Schedule
Date
First Session
Second Session
3 rd March
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seminar on: Promotion And Protection of The Rights of Sexworkers
(12.00 Noon)
State's AttitudeTowards The Role of Sexworkers In Social Movement-A panel discussion
(02.30 P.M)
4th March
The twin brothers-The Terrosism and the War - A dialogue
( 10.00 A.M)
Antiretroviral Treatment fot The Positivc(+ve) People In The Third Countries - A Dillcma or A Dogma ?-a Debate
(12.30 P.M)
5th March
Religion Vs State : Where Are We ? - A Symposium
(10.00 P.M)
Restructuring Health Service - Through People Participation - A Panel Discussion
(12.30 P.M)
6th March
Self-Regulatory Board of Sex-workers - A Viable Answer To The De-criminalisation of Sex Trade - A Debate
(10.00 P.M)
Workshop on - Sexual Repression-One of the Root Causes of Social Violence
(12.30 P.M)
7th March
Panel discussion on:"The Rights of Women Workers' In The Context of Globalization"
(10.00 A.M)
Panel Discussion on: "Significance of Sex workers’ Empowerment In Controlling HIV/AIDS"
(12.30 P.M)
8th March
Workshop on :
(10.00 A.M)
Seminar on : Rclious Violence & Women's Sub-ordination
(12.30P.M)
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Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] AIDS activists violated: Urgent call for global solidariy
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2602 00:30:48 +0530
From: "meena" <meena@pn.3,vsn1.net.in>
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exoosed me to the right of mon who use abusive language so effectively as a
form of violence that silences women such LhaL we can never hold our head up
it all started witn vamf the prostitutes' collective buying a piece or land
i^fche border town of Nippani in the Belgaum district of Karnataka state.
S^nce the collective bad finally bought its own space the regular Monday
meetings shifted to Nippani. Women f: ■on seven districts of Western
Maharashtra and Nor th Karnataka were to acted these meetings as they have
been doing for the past ten years m Sangli. Unfortunately from the second
meeting the local coporators decided that the women who attended these
moati’nrrs wore defiling tho 'pure and sacred' space and they decided to put a
stop to these mootings.
They first threatened to kill the main leaders i.e. Meena Seshu and Shabana
Khazi if the meetings continued. When this did not happen they threatened to
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one dead of the night. 25 to 3u boys with swords and thick bamboo sticks
beat up every man who dared to pass through the street and robbed them of
their gold and their money. The police turned a blind eye. On 18/2/2002 they
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because the terms laid down by them were not acceptable to the collective
SANGRAM the NGO working with the women.
When they realised that legally we had every rzght to hold a meeting on on
own land they decided to negotiate. The terms offered by them were firstly
all r.'ne women should use r.ne Hnangi bo I ’ [r.ne nignr. soil lane of yesr.er
years] as they were not to be seen by respectable wives and children.
Secondly, they should hold the meetings in Lhe back side of the building
und°** the hot sun because the hall faced the street and meetmgs held m the
enclosed hall would mean that the women can be seen by the naked eye while
entering the premises. Thirdly, none of the women in prostitution should
come by four wheelers as this dared to offend the richer men in the
street!!! They demanded that the jeeps are parked outside and the women walk
down the side entrance through the Ehangi Street with their heads properly
covered so that Lhe respectability of Lhe upper caste 'chaste' women is not
oftended.
demands were unacceptable and we rejected the same the women
Following is the report written by the reporter of TOI who wanted to cover
2/20/02 10:31 AM
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cue story. The words in italics are xiiy insertions.
’'30-coirtinercial sex workers hounded out from their homes by local gundas and
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Mounaed out of their own homes in Nippani by an armed mob, rhe 30-odd
helpless commercial sex workers are not even a living entity today. Cowering
in their make shift shelters in Sangli, Kolhapur, Tchalkaranji Shabana (a
worker) and. her frightened acquaintances are a tra’jmatized lot. ’’fc'or
years we nave been residing m the Devekar colony red light area. But today,
we are homeless/ says Shabana as rears spill down her cheeks.
Ever since lhe prosliLules1s collective Veshya AIDS Mukabla Parishad (VAMP)
bought a small piece ci land for themselves on January 10z 300Z to carry out
*
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HIV/AIDS and STD awareness programme in Nippani, the CSWs have had to
face the wrath of local rufrians and few policemen. “On one arm the
government is giving us free condoms to carry out HIV/AIDS prevention
programmes and on the other hand police officials are harassing us,"
lamented Meena Soshu, general secretary SANGRAM.
When contacted, the local Shiv Sena coporator, Mr Babasaheb Khambe said:
"The CSW's were causina a bad influence in the neiahbourhood. Under the aarb
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'hardcore prostitutes', and they should leave Lhe place immediately.”
When asked where they should go, he said: "anywhere that is not our look
out."
LvWeVer, what needs to be mentioned here is that, the red light area has
been there for more chan 80 years. Ex-MLA, Nippani Mr Subhash Joshi said
that the rights of women in prostitution should also be protected, as they
too are the citizens of this country.
Furthermore, the so-called, culture vultures and harbingers of peace went on
a rampage against these women. Tn the wee hours of Sunday, an armed mob of
some 70-odd ruffians threatened and rattled the doors of a few CSW.
Essisimg tkcz.z? Ilvss Stiateanci snd fsw ctticrs fisd to the nssrest Tov/ntiall
police station to file an FIR and ask for police protection, but in vain.
"The inspector in charge just wouldn’t write down the complaint. Instead
they shunned us away," said Shabana.
•’•orsi. odmez
Ikil Daioz -0- correspondents iroix. ?. ropeied national Enqlisk
investigated and questioned Lhe Nippani Circle Police Inspector, Mr
Mlish S Knot tor not filing tne CSW's complaint. "They are are 'bloody
veshvas’ and not 'normal citizens' hence their comoliant cannot be
yogiA^e^ed,” Mr Khnr
Tn a fit nf anger, Mr Khot
*
showered a volley
of abusive words and threatened the women saying, "I will strip all veshyas
5 in the public square and beau them black and blue Lili they die or else I
will book all of them under the Immoral Trafficking Act (Prevention) Act
1956."
The circle ponce inspector Ur Khot used abusive language that is very
difficult to translate into English but the gist of ail he said was that '
you prostitute - today you have come with this woman and creating this
drama. Let her leave and tomorrow I will personally come and pull out your
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fAIDS-INDIAl AIDS activists violated: Urgent call for global solidariy
pubic hair-. I will enter’ your vagina anti Lear it apart and do not forget
that my penis has the strength of my police job and power.’ He said, 'hadasu
bosadi and phodhari.and so on and on. all of which are very abusive and
is vio1°nc°
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Furthermore, in a very rude manner Mr Khot even had the audacity to accuse
Neil Pate of being a ‘pimp’ and 'agent' of the CSW's. He even threatened
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(SAniikAM), managed ny meena Sesnu was making money from r.ne govarnmanr. via
condoms distribution."
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Meanwhile, tearing their lives and the lives of their small children tha
30—odd CSW’s fled to the neighbouring districts on February 18. Despite all
this, the reaction or the local police authorities has been very casual so
far.
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who also manages the SLxee Adhar Kendra in rune said: ”CSW’s also have a
right to live and get police protection when they are in trouble. It is
erroneous if a oolice officer savs they are not 'normal citizens’.”
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A cursory look shows that, the 'hounding episode’ in Nippani rod light area
was a joint operation of the police, local ruffians and some prominent
corporators.
Commission will help,15 laments Sadhana Zadbuke, a social worker from
Kolhapur.
in soi idari r.y,
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Subject: [AIDS-INDI A] Ashoka Foundation Award for Mr.Ashok Rau of the Freedom
Foundation
Date: Sun. 24 Feb 2002 16:44:44 +0000
From: "Robert Zimmerman" <zimmer_rob@hotmail.com >
To: AID S -1N DI A@yahoogroups. com
Subject :
Ashoka Foundation
Date : Tue, 19 Feb 2002
Dear All,
This is inform all of you that Mr.Ashok Rau of the Freedom Foundation India
has been conferred the prestigious Ashoka Foundation award for social
entrepreneurship(HIV/AIDS) 2001/02. The official notification will be posted
shortly.
Robert Zimmerman
Consultant
Public Health Policy
Temple University Beasley School of Law
1719 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
E-mail:czimmer rob@hotmail.com>
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[AIDS-INDIA] Migrant Workers: Swea... Conditions/Ignorance Lead to AIDS
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Migrant Workers: Sweatshop Conditions/Ignorance Lead to AIDS
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 04:14:49 -0000
From: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Indian Migrant Workers: Sweatshop Conditions/Ignorance Lead to AIDS
Epidemic
New Year brought bad tidings for more than 400,000 daily wage
labourers in India's diamond capital, Surat. A prosperous city in the
western Indian state of Gujarat, Surat is known for its finely cut
diamonds and textiles.
But despite a turnover of millions of dollars, individual businesses
operate on a small to medium scale and are little better than
sweatshops. Most employees who work in these small, congested
workplaces are temporary, receiving low pay and no benefits.
Yet year after year, hundreds of migrant labourers from the eastern
state of Orissa come to the city in search of employment and a new
life. Statistics say that one district alone in the state - Ganjam provides nearly 900,000 workers to Gujarat.
But on the eve of this year, the dream died for many of them when
more than 6,000 powerlooms closed down, protesting a hike in power
rates. Nearly 400,000 workers were retrenched overnight and asked to
return only when the~looms reopened.
Armed with uncertainty, these migrant labourers caught the next train
home. But now, two months later, the crisis is no longer limited to
their professional life. Though seemingly unrelated, scores of
families of migrant workers who lost their jobs are waking up to yet
another nightmare. HIV.
A survey of private pathology clinics, Red Cross and government
laboratories conducted in the district in October last year revealed
that as many as 5000 migrant labourers who work in Surat are infected
with the deadly ’virus.
But this is only the tip of the iceberg, believes Loknath Mishra, who
runs Aruna, the first agency to provide counselling services in the
area since 1996. He says that the actual figure is likely to be ten
times higher since testing for HIV is not mandatory.’
HIV counsellors in the area say that migrant labourers are especially
vulnerable because they fall in the sexually active age-group of 16
to 35. Only 15% of these take their families along. Long, hard hours
at work and an absent family life are some of the reasons why most of
them visit sex workers and contract HIV through unsafe sex. Since
these workers return home once every year, their wives and children,
an additional 600,000 people, are also living under the spectre of
HIV.
But the government refuses to acknowledge this medical emergency.
Even though the first case was identified way back in 1995, the state
has done little to^check the spread of HIV. No comprehensive
healthcare programme including prevention and control of HIV has been
started neither have any awareness programmes been carried out among
villagers, most of whom are extremely poor and illiterate.
Data is hard to come by because no baseline surveys have been carried
out. Even so, doctors say the available infrastructure cannot handle
a medical and social crisis of this scale. Apart from the lack of
trained staff, there is only one authorised testing facility in the
district - the microbiology lab at the MKCG Medical-College. Tn "the
suburban areas, some private laboratories do offer the TRIDOT test
but since this method is not confirmatory, the labs are not permitted
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to inform the patient whether he is positive or not.
In the villages, ignorance has bred fear and myths. Few are willing
to talk about the disease, let alone volunteer for blood tests. A
person who develops full-blown AIDS faces complete social expulsion.
Thrown out of their homes and shunned by their families, AIDS
patients live like animals.
Villagers even shy away from disposing the bodies of patients
suffering from Aids. In Sunathar village, a 21-year-old migrant
worker died of AIDS on January 12th. He had been working at a textile
mill in Surat for the last 3 years and contracted sexually
transmitted diseases several times. 8 months prior to his death, he
began to receive counselling from Aruna. But by then it was too late.
He was already a carrier. And when he died, no one in the village,
not even his family members, would do the last rites. It was left to
volunteers to cremate him.
But the locals have other concerns. Ganjam is among the poorer
districts in the state with few job opportunities. Most able people
are forced to migrate and every year, fresh groups join the regulars
travelling to Surat in search of a livelihood. But with mills closing
down, the job market has shrunk significantly. Since all of them are
temporary workers and work under exploitative conditions, they enjoy
few rights, such as medical benefits. So, if anyone is known to be
HIV positive, it would cost him his job. The situation has turned
even grimmer now following the powerloom strike in Surat.
Meanwhile, with the return of jobless migrants, tension is building
up in Ganjam. The local economy, heavily dependent on the earnings
they sent, is nearly shattered. There's also resentment as far too
many people vie for too few jobs. The administration is trying its
best to prevent a break-down in law and order, but privately
officials admit that the threat of HIV/AIDS riding on the back of the
current economic crisis is perhaps the biggest challenge they have
ever faced.
Submitted by Mohuya Chaudhuri, special correspondent reporting on
development related issues based in New Delhi.
E-mail: mohuya_c@yahoo.com
Cross posted from the Communication Initiative site:
http://www.comminit.com/Commentary/sId-4103.html
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[AIDS-INDIA] CORE Protest to violence against women
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] CORE Protest to violence against women
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 01:19:45 +0530
From: "Laifungbam" <coremanipur@vsnl.com>
Organization: CORE
To: "AIDS-India forum" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Protest to violence against women
CORE centre for organisation research & education
(Indigenous Peoples's Centre for Policy and Human Rights in India's North East)
CORE North Eastern Region: Lane 3 Basishtapur, Beltola (Dispur), Guwahati
781028, TelFax: +91 361 228 709, 228 730, Email: core_ne@sify.com
CORE Sanglen: Ghari, Airport Rd., Imphal 795001, TelFax: +91 385 441 339,
Email: coremanipur@vsnl.com
23 Feb 2002
To
Shri S M Krishna,
The Chief Minister,
Karnataka
E-mail: cm@kar.nic.in
Sub: Violations of the civil and political rights of women; protest against the
threats to life and intimidation unleashed on Ms Shabana Khazi and other women
activists by Nippani Circle Inspector of Police, Satish Khot and the Shiv Sena
corporator of Nippani
Sir,
We have been informed through reliable sources including persons representing the
aggrieved parties that there have been a series of violent threats and actions
resulting in the evictions of the women and their children from their homes,
directed at the non-government organisations SANGRAM and VAMP and their members and
office bearers in Nippani, Belgaum District of Karnataka. According to"information
we have received, the problem started with harassment of the workers when they
bought a piece of land, on January 10, 2002. Since then, systematic tactics of
intimidation, including abusive language, threats of violence to their persons and
property were made by a gang of 25 - 30 young men armed with staves and sticks,
supported by corporators of the Shiv Sena.
According to our information, 30 women and their young children have fled for their
lives and are living in makeshift shelter in various neighbouring districts. We
have also been informed that when an attempt to register a police complaint
according to law was made by the women, the police refused to register the
complaint. Further, when a press reporter, Neil Pate, a correspondent from the
Times of India, a reputed national English daily investigated and questioned the
Nippani Circle Police Inspector, Mr. Satish S Khot for not filing the CSW's
complaint the said inspector used abusive and threatening language towards the
workers, saying: "They are 'bloody veshyas' and not 'normal citizens' hence their
compliant cannot be registered," Mr Khot threatened the women saying, "I will strip
all 'veshyas ' in the public square and beat them black and blue till they die or
else I will book all of them under the Immoral Trafficking Act (Prevention) Act
1956." you prostitute - today you have come with this woman and creating this drama.
Let her leave and tomorrow I will personally come and pull out your pubic hair. I
will enter your vagina and tear it apart and do not forget that my penis has the
strength of my police job and power.' He abusive terms in the local language
including 'hadasu ', bosadi and phodhari and so on all of which terms are very
abusive.
Mr Khot also accused the reporter Mr. Neil Pate of being a 'pimp' and 'agent' of the
women.
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[AIDS-INDIA] CORE Protest to violence against women
We would like to register our strong protest against the violence and threats to
life and dignity and the evictions upon Ms. Shabana Khazi and other women activists,
the sex workers and their children and also of the press, by the Circle Police
Inspector of Nippani, Satish S Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator of Nippani
Babasaheb Khambe
We would like to point out to you that India is a State Party to and therefore has
legal obligations under the International Bill of Rights (International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights [ICCPR] and International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights [ICESCR] both ratified by India in 1979) to respect, protect,
promote and observe the human rights and freedoms of all individuals within its
territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognised, without distinction
of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status (Art. 2.1
ICCPR).
By the authority residing in your honourable position, under the provisions of the
Constitutions and laws of India, you are obliged to ensure that any persons whose
rights and freedoms are violated shall have an effective remedy notwithstanding that
the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity (Art. 2.3
ICCPR).
Under the same treaty, No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment (Art. 7 ICCPR), Everyone lawfully within the
territory of a State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of
movement and freedom to choose his residence (Art. 12.1 ICCPR). Everyone shall have
the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (Art. 16 ICCPR).
Art. 17 ICCPR also states that
1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy,
family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and
reputation.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or
attacks.
Articles 18 and 19 ICCPR also protects every citizens' rights to freedom of opinion
and expression. Article 21 ICCPR further protects the rights of all to peaceful
assembly.
Noting that the eviction has had a severe impact on children, by denying them them
shelter in their rightful homes and subjecting them to trauma due to the
displacement, we would like to draw your attention to Article 24 ICCPR which
protects children from discrimination of every kind.
Under the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, which India
ratified in April 1979. your government is obligated to protect and recognize the
right to work, which includes the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his
living by work which he freely chooses or accepts, and (will) take appropriate steps
to safeguard this right (Article 6). Article 11 ICESCR specifically protects the
right to adequate housing.
India is also a party to the International Covenant to End All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women [CEDAW] ratified in 199^4 .
Article 2.d of this
Convention states that the government and its agencies and officials must refrain
from engaging in any act or practice of discrimination against women and to ensure
that public authorities and institutions shall act in conformity with this
obligation; and requires your government under Article 2.f, To take all appropriate
measures, including legislation, to modify or abolish existing laws, regulations,
customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women;
Under Art.5.a, CEDAW, your government is also required take all appropriate measures
To modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view
to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices
which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the
sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women;
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Article 11 CEDAW also protects the inalienable right to work and freedom of choice
of profession.
In addition we would like to point out that the action of threats to their mothers,
and their homes and the subsequent evictions also violates the rights of the
children affected, as per India's commitments under the UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child ratified in 1990
We are convinced of the good intentions of your government to fully protect the
rights of each citizen under the laws of the country and India's obligations under
these and other treaties. We therefore strongly recommend:
l.That the Government of Karnataka and its designated agnecy conduct a thorough and
fair inquiry intothe events;
2. That the Government of Karnataka take immediate action first and foremost to take
all necessary steps to permit these women and children to return to their own homes
in safety and with full assurance of security when they return;
3. To initiate the due process of law and ensure justice to the victims of this
gross violations without delays. This will include
,a. the facilitation of the filing of an F.I.R. by the victims with a complete
record of the reasons for the delay in the filing
b. . the suspension of the concerned police officials who refused to file the
complaint and
.
c.
appropriate action against those who threatened the victims
We look forward to your immediate action on this matter.
Yours sincerely
Anna Pinto
Director (Gender and Children's Rights)
E-mail: coremanipur@vsnl.com>
Cc:
Chairperson, National Human Rights Commmission
UN Special Rapporteur on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
UN Human Rights Committee
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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[AIDS-IjNDIA] Reply to Pravin Patkar's Response to Meena Seshu's Appeal
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Reply to Pravin Patkar's Response to Meena Seshu's Appeal
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:24:12 +0530
From: "Laifungbam" <coremanipur@vsnl.com>
Organization: CORE
To: AIDS-rNDIA@yahoogroups.com
24 Feb 2002
Dear Praveen
Warm greetings to you and Preeti from all of us. Thank you for your message and your
clarification re: you network's position on prostitution. We are aware of this
position. Your response to us has raised some points of deep interest to us, which
we feel have relevance to others as well. With your permission, we would like to
share your note with others along with our response to you. We do this because your
position regarding the events at Nippani and the discussion that can ensue would, we
believe, immensely contribute to the debate on prostitution vis-a-vis the human
rights of women and children in India. Since the note is an organisational/network
position we felt it would be OK to share it.
We had responded to the appeal from Meena Seshu and her colleagues from the
perspective of human rights - this is very clear in our letter to the CM of
Karnataka and we had also forwarded all our information including the first appeal
from Meena, from the beginning, to appropriate UN thematic and treaty based
mechanisms. International human rights law and fundamental rights as enshrined in
our Constitution (and interpreted by the Supreme Court, which is also law) and
various municipal legislation are based on the foundations of the inalienable and
inherent dignity of all human beings and the principles of non-discrimination and
justice. This is not disputed.
Having clarified the basis of our response to the appeal, we are making a some
additional clarifications about your note - which are our own positions.
1. In responding to the human rights violations that have occured in Nippani, as
reported by Meena Seshu . The reality or extent of her grief or pain or their
non-existance is irrelevant as long as the facts of the incident can be verified,
which they appear to have been. We are therefore, in our response, implementing our
human rights mandate to respond to urgent appeals from the victims or by a relaible
source on behalf of the victims. This is our organisational policy as a human rights
defender organisation in India.
2. In responding to this appeal, we are not endorsing the organisational position or
positions adopted, or to be adopted, by the involved organisations or individuals
working for them, i.e., VAMP, SANGRAM or any other organisation or front, vis-a-vis
prostitution or sex work itself. We are also not here taking a position on the
legality or illegality of prositution or sex work, or even of sexual exploitation of
these women. No doubt, Meena and her colleagues work in a very challenging and even
life-threatening environment, and the work they engage in on HIV/AIDS should indeed
be appreciated. This discussion or action on it belongs to a different context,
however.
3. Our appeal is solely concerned with the violence or threats of violence
including eviction experienced by some women and their children, who also happen to
be prostitutes or sex workers (we use the terms without prejudice to any legal or
poltical implications) or women working with them. We would like to re-iterate that
the legality or morality of their occupation, profession or way of earning their
livelihood does not in any way prejudice their rights or their legal position
vis-a-vis India's Constitution as citizens.
We hope that this letter clarifies our stand.
We also appreciate that this issue has been widely circulated and discussed in
different forums. We would be interested in discussing this further, beyond the
context of this particular incident.
With warm regards
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[AIDS-IJ'iDlA] Reply to Pravin Patkar’s Response to Meena Seshu’s Appeal
Anna Pinto
Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation of Children, South Asia
CORE centre for organisation research & education
(Indigenous Peoples's Centre for Policy and Human Rights in India's North East)
CORE North Eastern Region: Lane 3 Basishtapur, Beltola (Dispur), Guwahati
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CORE Sanglen: Ghari, Airport Rd., Imphal 795001, TelFax: +91 385 441 339,
Email: coremanipur@vsnl.com
-------- Original Message -------From: pppatkar
To: CORE
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: Pravin Patkar
Anna
May I request you to kindly see this note? It might not be a very good thing to
demand action on somehearsay alone. First a fact finding mission of some
independent parties and then petition to the CM would have been apppropriate.
Pravin
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[AIDS-INDIA] AIDS activists violat...etter from Seattle, Washington USA
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] AIDS activists violated: Protest letter from Seattle, Washington USA
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 10:14:14 -0800
From: "amelia seraphia derr" <seraphia28@hotmail.com >
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Shri S M Krishna,
The Chief Minister,
Karnataka
Sub: Our protest against the threats to life and intimidation unleashed on
women activists of social work organization, SANGRAM and of VAMP by the
Nippani Circle Inspector of Police Satish Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator
of Nippani .
Sir,
I am deeply shocked and disgusted at the intimidation, threats and
verbal assault launched against women activists of the well-known social
work organisation, SANGRAM and of the prostitutes' collective Veshya AIDS
Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) by the Circle Police Inspector of Nippani, Satish S
KTT6f and the Shiv Sena corporator of Nippani Babasaheb Khambe.
SANGRAM has achieved renown worldwide in the area of AIDS prevention. It has
been hugely successful in its recent initiative to form prostitutes'
collectives under the banner of Veshya AIDS Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) in seven
districts of Western Maharashtra and North Karnataka.
However, for several weeks now, the work of both organizations, and VAMP in
particular, has been under severe attack by the local politicians. We regret
to learn that the police, who are expected to provide security to ordinary
citizens, have completely abrogated this responsibility and instead,
threatened to kill, and even rape, Ms Shabana Khazi, the general secretary
of VAMP.
The abusive and undignified behavior of the concerned police inspector and
of the local politicians expose their completely feudal and regressive
notion that prostitutes are somewhat sub-human, unworthy of basic dignity
and respect due to any human being. Their patriarchal mindsets are unable to
accept the fact that women, the world over, have a right to organize against
their oppression.
We earnestly request you to ensure that your government is not tainted by
the prejudicial and unjust behavior of your functionaries. Please suspend
the police officer concerned and institute an inquiry into the incident.
Simultaneously, please direct your administration to help VAMP and its
activists conduct their legitimate meetings and activities without fear and
intimidation.
Sincerely,
Amelia Seraphia Derr, MSW
Auxiliary Faculty
University of Washington School of Social Work
Seattle, Washington USA
E-mail: seraphia28@hotmail.com
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| AIDS-INDIA] Forget Soho, give me Sonagachi: UK
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Forget Soho, give me Sonagachi: UK
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:34 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
Organization: Franpois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA)
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com >
Forget Soho, give me Sonagachi: UK
The Asian Age 23rd February, 2002-New Delhi
Kolkata, Feb. 22: The British want Kolkata to teach them how the city goes about
preventing STD's and HIV. Programme in Kolkata will be used as model for red-light
districts in the UK, British foreign office minister Ben Bradshaw said on Friday. He
was impressed by the success of the Sonagachi Project for sex workers and their
children. The project is funded by the department for international development of
the UK government. "It is a model for the UK and the world. Britain has lot to learn
form it," he said.
Sexually-transmitted diseases are on the rise in Britain. "The drugs used are strong
and toxic, so the stress should be on prevention," he said. He promised financial
aid for the education of Sonagachi sex workers children
Dr.Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Director of Administration and Operations
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
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[AIDS-INDIA] AIDS activists violat...olution is education and awareness
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] AIDS activists violated: The solution is education and awareness
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 06:00:14 -0800 (PST)
From: vijayabhaskar kandula <emailreddy@yahoo.com >
To: _AJDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.corn
Dear Forum members:
This is my first posting on this site. However, I read
the post regulary.
I am a native of Bellary in Karnataka. I am presently
in New york working on MD in Medicine.
That was a very well drafted letter. However, it is my
personal belief that suspending anyone will do any
good. Rather than a tit for tat we should try to
understand why those law keepers and law makers acted
the way they did. For all we know they (violators)
themselves might/are be at risk of AIDS-which rightly
treats all beings equally! The great equalizer of
modern times if I may say so.
These events were emotionally charged and each party
strongly felt they were doing the right thing. If this
were an isolated incident, disciplinary action might
have helped. I will not be surprised if the attitudes
are similar in other talukas or districts of karnataka
or for that matter any where in India.
I feel, any solution to this issue should include
creating awarenss or educating these people about the
disease and then we may expect their attitudes to
change. I for one am not at all surprised at this
incident. Let us not forget that some, if not a
significant number amongst us us have gone through
different stages in relating to HIV/AIDS-beginning
with absolute ignorance
with bad attitudes like
the people above with half baked knowledge of the
disease.... to people who feel stronly about this
issue and emathize with the victims of the disease.
In summary, I feel it was ignorance and fear (of
unkown? ) that made them behave so unprofessionally
and inhumanely. We would be better serving the cause
if we can educate the_poice force. Disciplinary
actions in irsoTatlLon or as a major form of remedy will
be nothing more than a knee jerk reactions.
Vijayabhaskar Reddy Kandula MD MPH
E-mail: <emailreddy@yahoo.com>
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[AIDS-INDIA] Reply from NACO director on AIDS activits violated
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Reply from NACO director on AIDS activits violated
Date: Sat. 23 Feb 2002 05:05:27 -0000
From: "J V R Prasada Rao" <nacodel@del2.vsnl.net.in >
To: AIDS-INDlA@yahoogroups.com
>From "J V R Prasada Rao" <nacodel@del2 .vsnl .net. in>
Date: Thu Feb 21, 2002 2:13 pm
Subject: Reply from NACO director on AIDS activits violated: Urgent
call for global solidariy
Dear Meena,
I am shocked and infuriated at the treatment meted out to you at the
hands of the 'custodians of law1.We should not leave it at this stage.I
suggest you and some other NGOS meet Mr Manmohan Singh PD MPSACS and the
Health Minister and take up the case strongly.Such an incidentcan't be
allowed to go unpunished in a civilised society.
I shall personally take it up
with the Maharastra Govt.
Regards,
JVR Prasada Rao
NACO Director
nacodel@del2.vsnl.net.in
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[AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists violated: Silence is disconcerting.
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists violated: Silence is disconcerting.
Date: Sal, 23 Feb 2002 09:37:07 +0530 (1ST)
From: Lakshmi Ramakrishna <lakshmi@jncasr.ac.in>
To: AIDS-India forum <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Hello all,
The silence following the VAMP mail is disconcerting. I remember the spate
of mails that each one of us had got relating food issues or
discrimination at an international meet. Has it hit so close at home that
we time need to digest it or is it that we are feeling helpless at the
sheer dimensions of the issue? It is at this very real and grass root
level that one has to act and act fast at that.
Lakshmi
Lakshmi Ramakrishna (lakshmi@jncasr.ac.in )
Research scholar ,
Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit
JNCASR, Jakkur, Bangalore - 560 064
Ph. no : +91-80-8462750, Fax: +91-80-8462766
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| AIDS-INDIA] Re: Query about the ethics of HIV testing for Children
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: Query about the ethics of HIV testing for Children
Date: Sat. 23 Feb 2002 06:05:57 -0800 (PST)
From: vijayabhaskar kandula <emailreddy@yahoo.com >
To: AIDS-lNDIA@yahoogroups.com
I am aware of instances where new horns are breast fed
by other women. In a suvey_that i conducted in 1996 in
adivasis in heqqadedevanakote taluk of mysore district
this practice was noted among the betta kuruba tribes.
Vijayabhaskar Reddy Kandula MD MPH
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2/25/02 10:20 AiV
[AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists violated: Letter to the CM
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists violated: Letter to the CM
Date: Fri. 22 Feb 2002 18:08:20 +0530
From: "meena" <meena@pn3.vsnl.net.in >
To: <AIDS-INDI A@yahoogroups.com»
Dear all,
Thanks a million for all the solidarity, can we send this letter to
the C.M? his e-mail ID is encl, in solidarity, meena
To
Shri S M Krishna,
The Chief Minister,
Karnataka
E-mail: cm@kar.nic.in
Sub: Our protest against the threats to life and intimidation unleashed on
women activists of social work organisation, SANGRAM and of VAMP by the
Nippani Circle Inspector of Police Satish Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator
of Nippani.
Sir,
I/we are deeply shocked and disgusted at the intimidation, threats and
verbal assault launched against women activists of the well-known social
work organisation, SANGRAM and of the prostitutes' collective Veshya AIDS
Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) by the Circle Police Inspector of Nippani, Satish S
Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator of Nippani Babasaheb Khambe.
SANGRAM has achieved renown worldwide in the area of AIDS prevention. It has
been hugely successful in its recent initiative to form prostitutes'
collectives under the banner of Veshya AIDS Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) in seven
districts of Western Maharashtra and North Karnataka.
However, for several weeks now, the work of both organisations, and VAMP in
particular, has been under severe attack by the local politicians. We regret
to learn that the police, who are expected to provide security to ordinary
citizens, have completely abrogated this responsibility and instead,
threatened to kill, and even rape, Ms Shabana Khazi, the general secretary
of VAMP.
The abusive and undignified behaviour of the concerned police inspector and
of the local politicians expose their completely feudal and regressive
notion that prostitutes are somewhat sub-human, unworthy of basic dignity
and respect due to any human being. Their patriarchal mindsets are unable to
accept the fact that women, the world over, have a right to organise against
their oppression.
We earnestly request you to ensure that your government is not tainted by
the prejudicial and unjust behaviour of your functionaries. Please suspend
the police officer concerned and institute an inquiry into the incident.
Simultaneously, please direct your administration to help VAMP and its
activists conduct their legitimate meetings and activities without fear and
intimidation.
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2/25/02 10:28 AN'
[AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists violated: Global support
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activists violated: Global support
Date: Fri. 22 Feb 2002 08:25:34 -0500
From: "George M. Carter" <gmc0@ix.netcom.com >
To: AIDS-FNDlA@yahoogroups.com
CC: cm@kar.nic.in
To: Shri S M Krishna,
The Chief Minister,
Karnataka
By email: cm@kar.nic.in
Sub: Our protest against the threats to life and intimidation unleashed on
women activists of social work organisation, SANGRAM and of VAMP by the
Nippani Circle Inspector of Police Satish Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator
of Nippani.
Sir,
We are deeply shocked and disgusted at the intimidation, threats and verbal
assault launched against women activists of the well-known social work
organisation, SANGRAM and of the prostitutes' collective Veshya AIDS
Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) by the Circle Police Inspector of Nippani, Satish S
Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator of Nippani Babasaheb Khambe.
SANGRAM has achieved renown worldwide in the area of AIDS prevention. It
has been hugely successful in its recent initiative to form prostitutes'
collectives under the banner of Veshya AIDS Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) in
seven districts of Western Maharashtra and North Karnataka.
However, for several weeks now, the work of both organisations, and VAMP in
particular, has been under severe attack by the local politicians. We
regret to learn that the police, who are expected to provide security to
ordinary citizens, have completely abrogated this responsibility and
instead, threatened to kill, and even rape, Ms Shabana Khazi, the general
secretary of VAMP.
The abusive and undignified behaviour of the concerned police inspector and
of the local politicians expose their completely feudal and regressive
notion that prostitutes are somewhat sub-human, unworthy of basic dignity
and respect due to any human being. Their patriarchal mindsets are unable
to accept the fact that women, the world over, have a right to organise
against their oppression.
We earnestly request you to ensure that your government is not tainted by
the prejudicial and unjust behaviour of your functionaries. Please suspend
the police officer concerned and institute an inquiry into the incident.
Simultaneously, please direct your administration to help VAMP and its
activists conduct their legitimate meetings and activities without fear and
intimidation.
This letter is being distributed to interested parties and the media. I
hope you will be able to respond to this letter at your earliest convenience.
Sincerely,
George M. Carter
Director, FIAR
Brooklyn, NY 11217
"George M. Carter" <gmc0@ix.netcom.com>
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[AIDS-INDIA] Letter to the CM, Kar... regarding the SANGRAM/VAMP issue.
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Letter to the CM, Karnataka regarding the SANGRAM/VAMP issue.
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:24:28 +0530
From: "lawyers" <aidscaw@bom5.vsnl.net.in>
To: <AIDS-lNDIA@yahoogroups.com>
Friends,
This is the letter we have written to the CM, Karnataka regarding the SANGRAM/VAMP
issue. In solidarity,
Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
Subject: Human rights abuses suffered by HIV/AIDS NGOs
Shri S M Krishna,
The Chief Minister,
Karnataka
Sir,
We introduce ourselves as an NGO providing legal services to HIV+ people. You will
recall that we had facilitated a meeting between yourself and Justice Michael Kirby
of Australia and Justice Edwin Cameron of South Africa in early January 2002. We
write to you regarding an issue we had discussed at that meeting -- that of
harassment and human rights violations suffered by vulnerable communities and
HIV/AIDS interventions working with them, from the state machinery. As you have
shown personal interest on HIV/AIDS in Karnataka, we urge you take note of the
following and act on the same.
We are deeply shocked at the intimidation, threats and verbal assaults launched
against women activists of the well-known social work organisation, SANGRAM and of
the prostitutes' collective Veshya AIDS Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) by the Circle Police
Inspector of Nippani, Satish S Khot and the Shiv Sena corporator of Nippani
Babasaheb Khambe.
We are personally aware of SANGRAM's work, which has achieved renown worldwide in
the area of AIDS prevention. It's success in its recent initiative to form
prostitutes' collectives under the banner of Veshya AIDS Mukabla Parishad (VAMP) in
seven districts of Western Maharashtra and North Karnataka is acknowledged by all
those connected with HIV/AIDS and prostitution.
However, it has come to our knowledge that for several weeks now, the work of both
organisations, and VAMP in
particular, has been under severe attack by the local politicians. We regret to
learn that the police, who are expected to provide security to ordinary citizens,
have completely abrogated their responsibility and instead, we reliably learn,
threatened to kill, and even rape, Ms Shabana Khazi, the general secretary of VAMP.
The behaviour of the concerned police inspector and of the local politicians
indicate their mindset and notion that prostitutes are somewhat sub-human, unworthy
of basic dignity and respect due to any human being. These patriarchal mindsets are
unable to accept the fact that women, the world over, have a right to organise
against their oppression.
We earnestly request you to ensure that your government and its functionaries are
not tainted by the prejudicial and unjust notions as stated above. We call upon you
to institute an inquiry into the incident and in the meantime suspend the police
officer concerned. Simultaneously, please direct your administration to help VAMP
and its activists conduct their legitimate meetings and activities without fear and
intimidation.
Regards,
Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
E-mail: <aidscaw@bom5.vsnl.net.in>
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2/25/02 10:22 AM
[AIDS-INDIA] Query about the ethics of HIV testing for Children
Subject: (AIDS-LNDIAJ Query about the ethics of HIV testing for Children
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:06:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Trupti Desai <truptid_69@yahoo.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear friends,
My query is to all who are concerned about people
infected and effected by HIV/AIDS. I am a clinical
psychologist and counsellor working in this field for
last seven years. Presently, I am working in one of
the cities in Rajasthan. One physician here had a
difference of openion with me. What he does is, when a
patient is tested for HIV, and if his wife is tested negative
still he advice his child to go for the test who falls
in the age group of 5-8 years without any counselling,
even when the counsellor is available just because the
parents are anxiuos.
When I confronted him about the
professional ethics of this practice, He asked about the
reference where we cannot advice the child for HIV test even
when the mother is tested HIV negative.
According to
the Doctor, in this part of India, especially rural
areas, there are higher incidences of child being
breast fed by any woman other than the mother and that
too without the knowledge of the mother. And many a
times, the Elisa report could be false negative, he
says. He is not aware about Lhe H/o of child for blood
transfusion or sexual abuse.
My question to all is how
far this is ethical? Diease support your answers with
references.
With Regards,
Trupti Desai
E mail: <truptid_69@yahoo.com>
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2/25/02 10:35 AM
[AIDS-INDIA] about UNAIDS in India
Subject: [AIDS-IN O1A| about UNAIDS in India
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:54:40 +0700
From: "Yuli" <tingtong@bdg.centrin.net.id>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@.yahoogroups . com>
Dear Forum!!
I want to ask some questions, Does anyone know about these?
If you know, could you please reply email to me.
1.. Sine when (year) UNAIDS was exist in India?
2.. I want to know, Does UNAIDS help to take in hand the AIDS problem in India? and What
are there effort that have been done in India?
3.. Which parties are involve/cooperate with UNAIDS to contend spread HIV/AIDS in India ?
4.. Is UNAIDS working together with India goverment?
Thank you!
Yuli
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2/25/02 10:34 .AM
fAIDS-INDIA] HTV Testing without counseling.
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Subject: [AIDS-LN DIA] HIV Testing without counseling.
Date: Thu. 21 Feb 2002 18:21:28 +0530
From: "Juhi Sahai" <jsahai-modicare@modi.com>
To: <AIDS-INDLA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear Forum members,
Its very unfortunate that HIV Testing is commonly taking place without counseling.
!!
Our foundation has been working in this field only since the last year and a half, and
since the last few months we have been facing situations where tests are conducted by
reputed institutes, without pre test counseling and the reports are handed over without
any post test couseling.
Further these reports are handed over to anyone coming to receive
them.We have lost patients because of this callous behaviour. They vanish,
disappear, are thrown out, and we don't know what becomes of them.
This hampers the entire purpose of all the care and support work that
organisations are undertaking.
We request the govt agencies along with key opinion makers, if mandatory ■
counseling can be reinforced, in whatever manner possible. It seems the
entire purpose for testing in some places is only to find out if the person
is positive and then refuse to treat them.
Please look into this urgenlty.
regards,
Juhi Sahai.
E-mail: <j sahai-modicare@modi . com>
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2/25/02 10:32 AM
[AIDS-INDIA] Alternative views to SANGRAM VAMP activities
Subject: [AIDS-LNDlAj Alternative views to SANGRAM/VAMP activities
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:31:24 +0530
From: "Pravin Patkar" <pppatkar@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in>
To: "AIDS INDIA" <A2DS-JNDLA@yahoogroups.com>
Dear Forum subscribers,
(Note from MODERATOR: As a moderating policy AIDS-INDIA eFORUM do not post messages which
appears as personal attack. However, this message is posted as there is A STATEMENT OF
WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION is also presented as part of this message: When you reply, please be
specific to issues which are presented and refrain from personal attack and keep the
discussion dignified. Messages, which do not comply with this policy will not be posted on
the forum. Sorry.)
This is in response to the message from Meena Seshu, the leader of SANGRAM/VAMP. We had
some horrible experiences of interacting with Meena Seshu and her colleague Shabana. We
then took a decision not to accept any invitation for a diesussion with Meena or her
close leaders of VAMP.
I do not know how many of the list readers have read the ideological position of Meena
Seshu's SANGRAM/VAMP. It is repeated at the end of this letter for their kind
information.
It unnecessarily gives a facade of being very radical. Actually it is the
most stinking piece of patriarchal formula that degrades and enslaves women. The ideology
stinks particularly when it is reserved fro a whole lot of disadvantaged women who find
themselves in th flesh trade as a result of some mishap. It also stinks since none of the
while collared intellectual leaders of this ideology follow it in their own lives or
initiate their own children to this radically emancipating life.
i
During an in house training programme conducted by their own organization SANGRAM the
women who had
been gathered to for a collective
when asked by
Meena to react to a point
"about inducting minor girls in flesh trade" stated, "We do not want our children to go
through what we have been going through. Hence we would educate them or get her married."
(Page 34), “We shall not put our children in prostitution. We do not them to have the same
fate that we have suffered from." (Page 35) "(Muktatechi Eharari (Flight of Freedom)
Marathi publication by SANGRAM the parent organization of VAMP the front of Meena
Seshu Sangli).
•
On that the organizational leader Meena Seshu states, "Girls should be brought into
prostitution 3 to 4 years after they start menstruating. If put into prostitution earlier
they have to face many difficulties. As it is their body is not adequately grown, they do
not know much about condom and they have to undergo stitches, suffer from STD, and other
diseases." ( see Page 29 Op. Cit)
The same organization echoing yet another international position states, "We believe that
when involuntary initiation into prostitution occurs, a process of socialization within
the institution of prostitution exists , whereby the involuntary nature of the business
changes increasingly into one of active acceptance, not necessarily with resignation .this
is not a coercive process." Page 27 "Of Veshyas, Vamps, Whores, and Women)
This is a dangerous logic
that no civilized society can accept.
Apply the same logic to
any crime where someone is "involuntarily initiated" into exploitation and subsequently
accepts it under the "internal socialization" of that crime. A lot of people believe
that this involuntary initiation is called trafficking, abduction, kidnapping, criminal
force, coercion deception, fraud, etc etc.
A lot of people also believe that the
"internal socialization" of a new recruit into flesh trade is nothing other than
starvation, beating, and rape, repeated rape and repeated
henchmen of the brothel keepers
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gang rape by the pimps and the
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[AIDS-INDIA] Alternative views to SANGRAM/VAMP activities
2/25/02 10:36 AM
VAMP holds that once in prostitution women Like to remain in it since they experience more
empowerment, emancipated status and subjectively more happiness as compared to a household
woman.
The while collared leaders of SANGRAM and VAMP reserve this emancipation fox’ the helpless
women who are uneducated, illiterate, and disadvantaged and who come trom the drought
affected regions, Dalit landless families or the deserted women.
On its HIV/AIDS control efforts the leader of SANGRAM/VAMP writes, "Responsible sex is a
whole gamut of things that together constitute a way of life. " Says Mena Seshu of
SANGRAM. "It is responsibility to yourself that makes you ensure you use a condom every
time you have penetrative sex." Responsible sex is not a moral concept, but a concept that
encompasses more human dimension than safe sex. " Even in schools, we never say, you
should not have multiple sex relationships." explains Seshu. "We say, "be responsible to
yourself in multiple sex relationships." (Of Veshyas, Vamps, Whores & Women SANGRAM / VAMP
Publication P.36
One has to only imagine the age group of schooling children to understand the full
meaning of this advice by VAMP/ SANGRAM.
There are some terms used deceptively by the legalization decriminalization lobby.
"Women in prostitution" is one such deceptive term. The term includes the brothel
keepers, brothel managers, the pimp women, the procurer women and not just the victim
women and young girls who are trafficked taking criminal advantage of their vulnerability
and helplessness. The two groups are not merely entirely different in terms of their role,
profits, and damages in the flesh trade but they are mutually antagonistic. It is a great
intellectual error to car.egori ze them together.
There are no two opinions lhal lhe incidence of trafficking of children, minors and young >
women has shot up phenomenally in the past tew years all over the globe. It is the third
largest illicit trade next to trade in arms and narcotics run by organized gangs.
'
Jean D'Cunha in her bock Legalization of Prostitution (1990)
gives detailed accounts of
the real nature of the organizations floated in the name of the victim women and shows
that largely they are formations floated by the brothel keepers and pimps and do not
represent the interests of the victim women who are prostituted.
We the members of NACSET (Network Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking)
representing over 273 voluntary sector organizations and over 500 individual
professional members including some of the women's organizations ( Stree Mukti
Sanghatana, Stree Adhar Kendra included) from the state of Maharashtra as well as NACSET
Karnataka condemn the position of decriminalization taken by VAMP as well as that of
legalization taken by some other groups floated in the name of the victim women. In this
we are also joined by the other voluntary organizations such as the Joint Women's Project
Delhi, Sanlaap Kolkata. The network of organization working against trafficking and
commercial sexual exploitation from Andhra Pradesh NATSAP also condemns this position.
It is important to note that some of us have been working for the rights of the women and
children victims of CSE&T for over 14 years now and Prerana runs 24 hours services for
them in the redliqht areas of Kamathipura, Falkland Rd., Turbhe etc. Let the readers not
be misdirected by
and Falkland rd
the likes of
Meena Seshu
and VAMP. The victim women of
have their collective called NISHANT which fights for
rights of lhe victim women.
Kamathipua
the dignity and
They in no uncertain terms demand abolition of Lhe flesh
trade as it is incompatible with the basic dignity of women. A social wrong must be
corrected even if it is late. It should never be regularized. The likesof VAMP and Meena
Seshu should have no respectable place in any civilized society.
This is not al all Lo justify what is being quoted to have been said by Lhe
concerned
2/25/02 10:36 AM
[AIDS-INDIA] .Alternative views to SANGRAMVAMP activities
police officer. Responsible platforms must verify if the police officer truly used such
words. Appropriate action must be initiated against anyone who might have used such
indecent words. At this stage however 1 am not sure if the officer did really say such a
thing.
Nevertheless nothing lessens the damage caused by Mccn Scshu to the
victim of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking.
cause of the
women
We must learn to differentiate
between tears and tears.
Pravin Patkar
Coordinator
Network Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking (NACSET)
A STATEMENT OF WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION
Prostitution is a way of life like any other. It is a survival strategy that is parallel
to any other occupation. It is not created for the benefit of men as is the common
perception; rather it is primarily for the women who live off it. Women in prostitution
make money out of sex and we are the breadwinners of our families.
We disagree with the statement that prostitution is a profession. We make a distinction
between profession(vyavasay) and occupation/ business(dhandha). For instance, if we are
presently occupied by making money out of sex, then that is our occupation for a short
span of time. The nature of the business itself is time bound. Therefore, by using the
term profession, we are necessarily being pushed into a category for a lifetime. We are
women who are practicing this time-bound business of prostitution for a short and specific
period in our lives. Please remember that when we are not making money out of sex, we are
engaged in other income-generation activities.
We believe that all occupations stereotypical to women adhere Lo so-called 'feraine
:
values'. They capitalize upon qualities like tolerance, sympathy, tenderness, endurance,
understanding, patience, forbearance and much more, be they housewives, typists, nurses,
teachers, office assistants, receptionists, women in prostitution etc. We believe, that
the socialization of the girl child to accept such occupations as the only alternative is
also a major reason for the perpetuation of sexual discrimination in the female
work-force. We believe that women in prostitution are no different.
We believe that we are more empowered than most women within male-dominated
patriarchal structures. For instance, within the family structure (which we know is the
most oppressive), we are the breadwinners and the heads of our households. The
relationships we share with the men from our families are more honest and equal because
the purdah of double standards is not necesary.
Economic independence from men is a reality that we enjoy with pride and dignity.
Brothel-owners, goons, the police and the self-appointed crusaders of morality in society
harass us , try to curb our independence and are forever trying to douse our spirit.
Control structures have a vested interest in criminalizing prostitution. What we demand
is the decriminalization of prostitution such that we can live safely and continue to
choose to make money from sex without stigmatization. We demand the eradication of all
laws concerning prostitution, which are oppressive and help in further criminalizing.
We believe that making money from sex is but selling a part of our body which is in no
way different from selling our brains or physical labour.
We protest against a society
that deems our work contribution as less prestigious than other traditional forms of work.
We believe that we challenge and undermine structures of power by using a part ot our
womanhood - our sexuality, as a source of our power and income.
Wc also protest against all laws and value systems that treat soliciting for sex as
indecent while sanctioning other forms of sexual contracts from advertisements Lo
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[AIDS-INDIA] Atemative views to SANGRAM/VAMP activities
2/25/02 10:40 AM
As People who experience violence as a part of our daily, we are being more and more
penalized by increasing violence in a society that is trying to order and control our
lifestyles.
As women in prostitution, we protest against a society that, forces on us the
violence of a judgmental attitude.
We believe that a woman’s sexuality is an integral part of her as a woman, as varied as
her mothering, a domestic and such other skills. We do not believe that sex has a sacred
space and that women who have sex for reasons other than its reproductive importance are
violating this space. Or if they choose to make money from the transaction they are
immoral or debauched.
We believe that child prostitution is akin to child sexual abuse, molestation and child
labour, and that it exist in a society that is fraught with crimes of abduction, kidnap,
rape, assault and violence agamst women. We believe <.hau as comparable to poor, weak and
marginalized communities, we are unable to have reasonable control of our lives and
destinies. We share the same experiences of women who live in the Third world.
We believe that there is a distinction between trafficking, which is a criminal issue,
and adult prostitution. While we agree that choice is a cruel mirage for all women within
capitalist patriarchy, we feel the need to acknowledge that adult prostitution as an
option, exists. We also believe that women who are in prostitution , choose to continue
to remain in business for many years.
We believe that when involuntary initiation into prostitution occurs, a process of
socialization within the institution of prostitution exists, whereby the involuntary
nature of the business changes increasingly to one of active acceptance, not necessarily
with resignation.
This is nor. a coercive process.
We believe that, despite living within
a capitalist patriarchal society and having experienced the freedom of living outside the
patriarchal system, it is almost impossible for us to contemplate entering such a system
with its inherent double standard, lopsided value system and inequalities.
We protest against a society that deems us immoral and illegal mainly because we don't
accept its mores, rules and governance. We protest against the various forces of
mainstream society that deny us the right to liberty, security, fair administration of
justice, respect for our lives, discrimination, freedom of expression and association.
We also protest against a society that aggressively promotes objectification and
commercialization of women and their sexuality. We protest against the sale of our
sexuality in the international market by unscrupulous individuals and governments who reap
huge profits off our bodies. We are in a business where the control has shifted from
traditional members of our community to criminal syndicates. We were not for sale. In
today's world, unfortunately we are sacrificed and commodified by vested interests,
sometimes from within our own communities.
Globalization and the economic liberalization is further breaking up our communities and
forcing us to accept the sale of our bodies and the sale of our young in the urban
industrial centres for prostitution. Movement in search of work is not new for us; the
problem however is the criminalization of the trade which is forcing us to turn to debt
bondage, forced labour and slavery-lime practices. Consequently, we find ourselves in the
trap of criminal syndicates in our search for work.
Wo believe that it is imperative that we must unite with each other to rcasc the
stigmatization of women in prostitution and restore our dignity as workers and citizens of
civil society. We must build alliances with other segments of society and, together we
must struggle against the forces who have a vested interest in eroding the rights of all
women.
We believe that a woman's sexuality is an integral part of her as a woman, as varied as
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2/25/02 10:40 AM
A] Plight of an HTV infected Howrah housewife
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Plight of an HIV infected Howrah housewife
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:12:09 +0530
Prom: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: “Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
HIV trauma trail dogs Howrah housewife
The Telegraph March 7, 2002 - Tarak Nath De
Rude shocks are in store for many a Howrah resident. Three months ago, a
30-year-old housewife from Kadamtala was told by experts that she had been
detected with HIV. The pre and post-test counselling could have helped her tide
over the trauma, but for her insensitive in-laws.
Five years ago, newly-married Surupa (name changed) had arrived at her new home
with a lot of expectations. Till her husband, a BSF jawan, fell ill and was
advised an HIV test. When it turned out positive, she and her baby daughter were
asked to take the tests as well.
TheTcIjild had escaped, the mother had not. But the worst was yet to come. When
her’ih-laws got to know of the development, they held her responsible for her
husband's plight. According to Surupa, her in-laws have been torturing her,
despite her husband admitting that he was responsible for contracting and
spreading the virus.
Sitting in the counselling room at Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine (STM)
last week, Surupa was a shattered woman. What is worrying her the most is: "who
will look after my child when we are gone?”
Relating her story, she said: "I could not believe my ears when I heard that I
was infected. My husband had hidden from me the fact that he was HIV positive. It
was at the insistence of the counsellors and doctors that he took me to STM. I
believe he used to frequent brothels when posted outside. When he fell sick, his
superiors told him to get a test done. Once the result was known, he was
counselled and advised to inform me and take precautions."
Surupa's husband, however, hid the truth - a price for which his wife is paying
dearly now. Perched on her lap, her three-year-old daughter asked: "Ma tumi
kanc^ho keno? Tomar ki oshuk koreychey?" (Ma, why are you crying? What illness do
you^Jave?)
Surupa is more worried about her child than her life. "I am lucky that my
daughter is not infected. But what will happen to her after my death? I wanted to
see her as a doctor, but now I do not know whether I will live that ling." She is
grateful to doctors "who are trying to motivate me. But the ultimate saviour is
God. "
Surupa is not the only woman in the state to face this ordeal. "There are quite a
number of housewives — both in the city and the rural areas - who have been
infected by their husbands," said Prof U.K. Neogi, head of the virology
department at STM. The detection rate in all sections of society has "definitely
increased over the years." Tn the early '90s, it was two to four new cases a
year. "Then it grew by 10s and 100s. in 2001, there were 700 new HIV cases
delected. The epidemic is spreading and awareness, along with behaviour change,
are the only true weapons we have,” he adds.
Dr.Jagdish Harsh ( jharsh@afxb.org )
Director of Administration and Operations
Francois-Xavier Baanoud (INDIA) ( www.fxb.org )
3/11/02 9:21 AM
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(AIDS-INDLA1 Report of Trainins of trainers course or Naz Foundation International
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Report of Training of trainers course of Naz Foundation Internationa!
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:21:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Adiiya Bondyopadhyay <adit_bond_2@yahoo.co.in>
To: aids-mdia@yahoogroups.com
Pasted below is a report on the recently concluded TOT course at Lucknow conducted by NFI.
Tliis is for vour information.
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Training of MSM Trainers
an NFI Regional Office Programme
The NFI Regional Liaison Office in Lucknow, India hosted a Training of Trainers Course
(1st Phase) between 14th - 23rd February, 2002 for potential MSM trainers and consultants.
The second phase training programme will be held in September.
21 participants from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Vietnam, took part in this training
programme. The 9 day intensive workshop took participants through the first part of the
NFI Handbook for developing MSM sexual health CBOs.
Those training programmes enable NFI to expand its technical capacity and human resources,
aliowina a raster implementation process tor developing new MSM sexual health CBOs in the
region, beyond the 18 projects already developed with NFI technical assistance.
The required person specification of the recruited potential trainers and consultants
were:
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b.
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d.
must b- from the MSM networks
literate in both his own language and English
good reporting skills in both languages
good communication skills
e.
good working knowledge or MSM and the sociocultural contexts in which they exist
f. reasonable working knowledge of HIV/AIDS
q. an ability to make people feel at ease and comfortable
h. an ability to easily and comfortably be able to discuss male to male sex behaviours
ogSnly
i. a reasonable knowledge of the male and female body, as well psychosexual issues of
concern for MSM
j.
a proven commitmenL to the issues
-i previous experience in training and conducting workshops (but not necessarily on
UTV/aTncM would be 2referred
rC. experience or working in an NGO environment
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experience of workino with MSM
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Process of using these trainers
Participants who have been deemed Lo have successfully completed the training of trainers
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programme will be selected to be a part of the Regional Trainers and consultants Network
for Maz Foundation international's South Asia MSM programme implementation.
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1st Course: 9 da vs
The course took the c-articioar.ts through the Naz Foundation International Handbook for
*developing MSM CBCs and Ils effective use. These courses are highly participatory and
cs xn or-’ o ”> r i pi
Course One: Conducting a Situational Asessment Among MSM
Participants actively participated in presenting materials as part of their training. Each
participant also had a range of materials to read prior to the training courses.
lot's
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Dav One Setting the context
Naz Foundation International and its work
outline of the course, its purpose
using the Handbook
exploring sex, sexualities and behaviours within a South Asian context
e.
i.
defining sex
exploring different sexual behaviours and their meanings, social values, and attitudes and
contexts
sexual messages from surroundings
cultural and social expectations
labelling, identities, gender and sexual stereotypes
stigmatisation, denial and invisibility in South Asia
Day Two The sexua_ body
knowing your own body
mapping your O’vr. body
discussions on sexual organs
nomenclature and terminology, including slang
knowing a womanis body
mapping your own body
discussions on sexual organs
nomenclature and terminology, including slang
the language of sex and behaviour
the practice or MSM sex in a South Asian context
Day Three Males who nave sex with males
an exploration of personal sexual histories
the tranewort ot South Asian MSM experience
desire or semen discharge?
exploring MSM desires, identities, and behaviours
localised structures of male to male sex
exploring your own city
exploring culture, religion and history
xemale partners
Day Four Sexual health: part one
what is sexual health?
what are STIs? - get treated
HIV and aids - information and tacts
HIV/STDs and transmission
spreading the virus
who is vulnerable?
Dav Five Sexual health: part two
what arc risk behaviours?
personal risk analysis
practising safer sex
condoms and lubricant
myths about condoms
condom care
negotiating condom use
Dav Six Developing a situational/needs assessment
what is a situational/needs assessment
what information needs to be collected
methods of information collection
questionnaire
m—depth interviews
secondary-stakeholders - who are they
ethical issues
‘conducting the analysis
Day Seven Sharing the knowledge
personal and social impact of STD/IIIV infection
changing sexual practices
sharing information
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developing peer intervention programme
where do wo go from here?
Day Eight Assessing training skills
now to use a manual
constructing the workshop
methods of communication
including: explicitness
ethical issues
workshop behaviours
humour
language (English v vernacular)
evaluation or workshops
outcomes
Day Nine The Way Ahead
Review of course end materials
Developing the NFI 'work programme
evaluation through
a. discussion
b. questionnaires
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[AIDS-INDIA] New Member
Subject: IAIDS-LND1AJ New Member
Date: 26 Feb 2002 07:56:36 -0000
From: "Salam Gautam Singh" <gautamsalam@rediffmail.com>
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My name is Goutam and I have been working in the field ot drug abuse and HIV/AIDS tor the
last 15 years. Right now I am the Secretary of an organisation known as "ECHEMA" in
Manipur. It focus is work only on female drug users,GSW, widow and children
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[AIDS-INDIA] Need help to fullfill the basics needs of a person living with AIDS
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Meed help to fullfill the basics needs of a person living with AIDS
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:54:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Srujana Sunku <skolishetti@yahoo.com >
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My name is srujana. I am trying to help Lwo kids
whose dad is suffering from AIDS and mom is trying
hard to fulfill the basic needs for the kids. Mom is
working 7 days a week but is not able to get
medication for her husband.I myself am not able to
fulfill the needs of this family and need your help.
I would be glad if you can help them in any form.
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[AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS activity and social sensibility: Reply-
Subject: IA1DS-LND1A] Re: AIDS activits and social sensibility: Reply
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:52:00 +0530
From: "Meena" <meena@pn3.vsnl.net.in>
To: <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>,
[This message is in response to the posting from
Anju of "Jackindia" on social
responsibility of AIDS activists. Moderator]
Dear Anju,
It is interesting that not accepting regressive social norms
sex workers should use the bhangi bol 'night soil lane’, should not be seen
by the naked eye, should not use a Jeep, should keep their head covered]
should be considered as offending sensibilities. By the way, we have been
doing this work ’discreetly’ for ten years now.
1. There has been a long history of violence against women in prostitution
in this area, women have been ill-treated, used by the police, gundas and
petty criminals for many years now.
It was only when the women got
sinipowsz'sci snoudi to say that they '.-.'ill not accept being raped and abused
jjotri physically and mentally that the men in the locality got angry.
2. I am as upset about this episode as you are. not for the same reasons but
because i am aware that what for us is an academic discussions at the best
of times, for the women it is their lives and livelihood, i am not as
judgemental as you are about women who are fighting for their rights, this
hapless sex worker image is not a wholly true one. Because the rights of
sex workers have been denied and they are fighting this battle it is not
correct to say that their intention was to offend the sensibilities of their
neighbours.
3. The men who visit the women tor sex belong to the same town. It is my
understanding that more often than not it is these very same men whose
vested interest needs to keep the voice of the women underground. Let us at
least acknowledge the strength of the women who are fighting a heroic battle
against the virus on an everyday basis and 'saving and educating' their male
clients about HIV and STD's.
4. For your information this organisation uses/ distributes 3,50, 000 condoms
per month in seven districts among 5000 women. And has been doing so for
more than eight years now. These condoms are used by men and women. Let us
not forget that most of these men are regular clients and are thus locals.
When the women ask questions as to why only they should cover their heads
with shame- we have no answer.
5. The police officer could use such language because we do not want to
challenge men who are abusive to women in prostitution. It is society that
uses the women and demeans them by degrading their means of livelihood. It
may take time but the women will be reinstated in Nippani. It is possible
I will keep you informed about the details.
But ten years of good work cannot disappear.
We will win with your blessings.
Ln solidarity,
Meena Saraswar.hi Seshu.
fAIDS-INDLAl Request for information regarding NGO collaboratives
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Request for information regarding NGO collaboratives
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:02:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Rashna Ginwalla <arcturus4p(ajyahoo.com>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
I ant an Indian graduate student studying Public Health
in the U.S. A colleague of mine and I are very
interested in designing a project that establishes a
collaborative "Umbrella Agency” (for lack of a better
term at the moment) in India that serves as a focal
point not only for disseminating information, but also
as a networking tool that will allow NGOs working in
the field of H1V/A1DS and, especially, those involved
m addressing the particular needs of street children
and those orphaned due to the disease. We envision
that this Collaborative will enhance the scope of
services provided to these high- risk populations, and
will also, perhaps, prove to be a useful catalyst for
the establishment of key public— private partnerships
in this area.
In order for this proposal to go forward, we would
like to invite suggestions from you, those who are
directly and indirectly involved in the provision of
services to street children (including those affected
by HIV/ AIDS. We ask for any information or
recommendations that you can make as to what, kind of a
role you envision such a collaboration will play. Wo
do realise that NACO is Lhe governmental arm that
represents just such an "Umbrella Agency", and we do
not wish to re- invent the wheel, so to speak, but we
would like to see this collaborative emerge from
within the NCOs and other groups working in this area
themselves.
Additionally, we would appreciate it if you could
provide us with any information on collaborative
efforts that are already under way. We are aware of,
for example, the Kerala Partners Forum, but only
through information disseminated on these list
serves. if you could provide us with more detailed
information on such collaboratives, who is involved,
and what your goals and objectives are, and, also,
whether you think that an overarching collaborative,
such as the one we envision, is useful, pertinent and/
or necessary, that would be a great help.
Thank you so much for your time. We look forward to
hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Rashna Ginwalla
The George Washington University
School of Public Health and Health Sciences
E-mail: Rashna Ginwalla <arct.i:rus4p@yahoo. com>
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[AJDS-lNDIA] AIDS activits and social sensibilitv
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA) AIDS activits and social sensibility
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:32:37 +0530
From: Jackindia <hifd@bol.net.in>
To: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
Friends,
While it is distressing tc learn of the abusive manner in which the sex workers
at VAMP were handled - we have are a few concerns in this regard about the
manner in which the HIV/AIDS prevention activites are being conducted.
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Are we promoting and demanding a social sanction for prostitution?
As I gather from Meena's mail -the sex-workers were not simply hounded out of
their homes -the locals of Nippani initially just asked them to stop their
highly visible weekly meetings. Which they refused — then the locals then used
threats
and then attempted to negotiate and asked them to be discreet. Which
was again refused - leading to a standoff and the police getting involved.
Now I can imagine the impact that a weekly gathering of sex workers - arriving
in four wheelers from seven districts - would cause quite a stir anywhere in
this country. In communities where people are struggling hard to make a honest
day's living and existing with the bare minimum of resources - it seems ironical
that sex workers (under the leadership of a few AIDS workers) appear to be going
on an aggressive roll, with resources, government and donor support, land, their
own vehicles to travel around every week and the ability to organize themselves.
Have we lost all sensibility and sense of reality in the name of HIV/AIDS?
Do prevention activities — but do it without flaunting something that is to be
socially discouraged. As I can see - the sox workers have been living in the
area for over 80 years without such an incident to date. So we need Lo ask
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ourselves what led to the seemingly sudden intolerance among the locals now? It
ought to be obvious that the sensibilities of the locals got offended only when
rhe situation became very 'in your face' - questioning their very way of life.
The repeated attempts of the locals to get the women to stop the meetings should
have alerted the workers to how they were offending sensibilities - and should
have led to some changes/adjustments in the mode or functioning so that everyone
could continue to co-exist peacefully. But no - we have our self-righteous "AIDS
work" to do - which justifies all. Why could not they agree to he more discreet?
As I see it, the attitude of the AIDS workers led to the situation spinning out
of hand - and the leaders of SANGRAM & VAMP are as responsible for the
humiliation of the hapless sex workers as the police. Let me ask them - that
even if they are able to garner the best of national, international and legal
support for the sex workers - how are they planning to assimilate them back in
the same locality after they have turned it into a prestige issue between the
sex workers and the locals of Nippani?
There are many aspects that ought to have been considered. What impact would
this have on young boys and girls of the area - whose folks cannot afford the
resources or the clout the sex workers seem to be enjoying? And seeing that this
is the method and manner of prevention efforts across the country - how are our
social structures like the family and related values, expected to stand up in
the face of more visible, dominating and powerful sex workers?
HIV/AIDS work does not give one the right to turn all social norms upside down —
■’ust as it should not end up demanding respectability for what is fundamentally
a degrading means of livelihood.
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- if it happened the manner described. But anyone even slightly familiar with
the concept of social chance ought to understand that any natural change (for
better or for worse' takes time, sometimes even a whole generation to manifest and attempting to force 'unaccepted!e' notions on people can only lead to social
ch'aos and violent responses.
With concern,
Anju
Jackindia
Email: hifd@bol.net.in
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[AIDS-INDIA] Personal thoughts on Voluntary Testina & Counsellina in India
Subject: lAlDS-JLNDlA] Personal thoughts on Voluntary resting & Counselling in India
Date: Mon. 25 Feb 2002 09:07:16 +0530
From: Bitra George <bitra_george@hotmail.com>
To: AIDS-INDLA@yahoogroups.com
Dear All,
I would like to place my personal thoughts on the state of Voluntary
Testing & Counselling programs in India before the forum members. These
comments are not to criticise but to initiate discussion on the issue
along with list some of the possible options.
(1)
NACP -II target: One Voluntary Testing & Counselling centre has
to be established in each district in the country according to the
targets set in National AIDS Control Program Phase II.
* Will the targets be realised at the present rate of expansion?
There might have to be either revision of the targets or speeding
up of the scale of expansion especially in the Northern states
(Uttar Pradesh & Bihar). There are quite a few VCT models, which
could be replicated or scaled up.
* Will the expansion program compromise the counselling process? The
worry is chat the rapid expansion of v'CTs might compromise the
counselling process for more HIV testing. It is important to
distinguish the goals of VCT from surveillance testing. A system
of safeguards needs to be set in place, which could prevent VCTs
from being misused for gathering data on HIV prevalence &
incidence in local areas. VCTs can at best, be used as an adjunct
for monitoring trends in the acceptance of the concept of
voluntary testing among populations that it caters to.
(2)
Structure of existing counselling centres: 2 counsellors have
been posted in each Voluntary Testing & centre for 5 6 days a week.
* Is the remuneration to counsellors enough? Counsellors are paid Rs
4000/ month as honorarium. Lot of counsellors in big metropolitan
cities have told me that it was not enough to sustain them and
their' families. There is a need to lock again at the pay structure
of counsellors especially in big cities.
* Are there sufficient support systems in place for counsellors?
There are no support systems for the counsellors to vent their
feelings at the end of the day/week etc. There is a felt need for
having a structure in place where in the counsellors will debrief
on a daily/ weekly basis to a supervisor. In addition, the
counsellors should also be provided space & time to ventilate
their feelings. This could at least partly stem the growing cases
of burnouts occurring among counsellors. There is also a need to
clearly lay down the job description of counsellors.
” Are there sufficient linkages to ongoing care & support services?
At the present time, very few VCTs offer linkages with care &
support programs and are usually run by NGOs (Torch in NICD,
Delhi) or Consortium of NGOs (NGO t'orum in Safdarjung hospital,
Delhi). There is a need for greater involvement of NGOs who have
expertise in HTV/ATDS programs in running counselling centres.
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* is there a resource directory of care & support services available
at all Counselling centres? Very few counselling centres have a
comprehensive resource directory for referring PLHAs to locally
available care s sunporr. services. This needs to be addressed at
the earliest.
* Is HIV testing procedure up to the mark? It has been seen that the
quality of HIV testing kits and the expertise required for routine
HIV testing leaves a lot to be desired in large number of centres.
In addition, there is also the perennial problem of periodic
shortages of testing kits, reagents etc. Quality control at HIV
testing centres and adequate supply of testing material is
essential for the smooth functioning of VCTs.
T Is confidentiality being maintained in counselling Centres; One of
fnp most important elements of HTV/AIDS counselling is the
maintenance of confidentiality. Experiences from various
counselling centres around the country has shown that there is
breach of confidentiality at various levels - at the HIV testing
level (everybody knows the result especially HIV positive result
in the laboratory), relay of test result to client or treating
doctors, at ward level (all the doctors, nurses, ward boys,
sweepers along with other patients know earlier than the admitted
client) and at the time of disclosure (consent of the client is
not taken before family members are informed). It is important
that a protocol is set up for the relay of HIV test results to
clients only by a trained counsellor. There is also a need to
clearly define the term 'treating health care worker' as there are
at least 10-15 doctors (Head of unit, consultants, Senior
residents. Post graduate students, junior residents and Interns),
10 nurses on rotation duty and 10 ward boys & sweepers in each
unit in major hospitals. Who decides who needs to know and who
need not know?
(3)
Quality of counselling
* Who si's the counsellors? Most of the counsellors posted in VCTs in
most of the Northern states had little or no experience in
counselling or HIV/AIDS issues. There needs to be a set criterion
for selection of counsellors, which should not be influenced by
any other consideration. Opportunity should also be provided for
PLHAs to become counsellors. There is also a need to differentiate
between lay counsellors & professional counsellors and clearly
demarcate rhe roles & responsibilities of each category.
* What is the concent of counselling in VCTs? Most of the
counsellors seem to be providing advice rather than providing
options/choices for the clients attending VCTs. In addition, there
seems to be little effort to explain the implications of HiV tests
(both positive & negative) and clients are advised to undertake
the HIV test. There should be a srandard protocol
for all
counsellors to follow in pro & posttest counselling. It has
becomes even more important to be careful that HIV positive
mothers are provided all possible options and are not advised to
undertake a particular step with the introduction of PMTCT
programs all over India.
* Is periodic training available for counsellors? There Is an acute
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lack of periodic training for counsellors in VCTs. The refresher
training courses should deal with upgrading skills & information
levels of counsellors, in addition, the counsellors must also be
provided with the opportunity to work in grass root level
organisations s conduct field work in the afternoons so that they
got a bettor understanding of the needs of clients especially
PLKAs.
(4)
Monitoring & Evaluation systems
* Are there established systems for maintenance of documents and
monitoring quality of counselling?
Very few centres have put
into place proper systems for monitoring of counselling that is
provided by the counsellors. A standardised system for
documentation needs to be instituted. Format for weekly/monthly
quantitative \ qualitative reports needs to be devised.
* Has there been evaluation of VCTs? Only a handful of VCTs have
been evaluated to date. Internal & external evaluation is
essential for measuring systems & procedures, quality of
counselling and impact of VCTs. One could use existing tool kit of
UNAIDS to evaluate VCTs.
Training programs for counsellors
* Are there sufficient training centres for counsellors in India?
The number of counsellors required to man all VCTs and antenatal
clinics in India is mindboggling. There are very few training
centres (Naz Foundation - Delhi, Torch - Delhi, NIMHANS Bangalore, Christian Medical College - Vellore, TISS - Mumbai,
CINI & Vivekananda Education Society - Calcutta, SIIAP - Chennai &
NARI - Pune) are the NACO recognised regional training centres in
the country. Existing centres are not sufficient to train
sufficient numbers of counsellors. There is a real need to augment
& continually fund existing centres and identify new ones to meet
the demand without any compromise on quality of training provided.
* Is there a standard protocol followed for training counsellors?
Most of the regional training centres have a 5-7 day training
program with a follow-up training for 3 days. SIIAP, Chennai has a
much more intensive training course for the period of one year
with field/community work a supervision. Naz Foundation conducts
training on various modules for 4 -7 days each. NACO is shortly
coming up with a protocol for ensuring standardised training to
counsellors all over the country. There is also a need to ensure
that training is periodic and regular. Evaluation of existing
training centres in terms of quality, content, cost effectiveness
and impact also needs to be conducted.
* What happened to all the master trainers £ counsellors trained in
the NACP -Phase 1? No attempt has been made to find out what
happened to all the master trainers s counsellors who have been
trained earlier during NACP -Phase I. The biggest failure of the
previous round of training was the absence of any clear criterion
for selecting master trainers and counsellors in each region and
development of an action plan to ensure further training of
counsellors. For the next round of training, these aspects will
need to be kept in mind.
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2/26/02 10:45 AM
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Relationship between counsellors & health care workers
* Is there tension and friction between counsellors & health care
workers? Tn mosr. of r.he counsel ling centres that, are situated in
health care settings, there is a lot of friction between
counsellors S health care workers. Most of the counsellors are
seen as activists tor patients/clients without any appreciation of
the constraints in which health care workers function. There is a
need for dialogue between both groups so that there is a better
understanding of each others role in meeting different needs of
clients/patients. There should also be a monthly/quarterly meeting
between the counsellors & health care workers to ensure smooth
functioning of the VCT.
(7)
Improving accessibility of Voluntary counselling centres
* Is there sufficient publicity of existing counselling centres?
There is still lack of awareness about the existence and the
location of VCTs in various parts of the country. There is a need
for a publicity campaign carried out with a great detail of
sensitivity so as to prevent stigmatisation of the VCTs. Care
should also be taken while naming/labelling the counselling centre
- avoid HIV or AIDS counselling centre tags wherever possible.
Social marketing of VCTs is another possibility. Linking
telephonic counselling with VCTs could also be strengthened.
* Ts there any other method for increasing accessibility of VCTs?
Unfortunately almost all of the VCTs arc located in health care
sellings. There is a need for establishment of community based
counselling centres with linkages to HIV testing centres.
Identification 5 training of staff in counselling & sample
collection & transport will need to be provided to community-based
organisations.
(8)
Innovations
Have new innovative methods been introduced in VCTs? Innovative steps
have not been incorporated in improving the functioning of VCTs in
India. Availability of rapid IIIV testing kits has led to a revolution in
VCTs around the world with pre
post test counselling being conducted
on the same day without any delay. Unfortunately, as yet, there are not
enough rapid HIV kits available for VCTs in India.
VCTs play a very important role in 'normalising' the epidemic. If VCT
were more available and more people were counselled and tested, more
would know their status and it is likely that this would decrease the
stigma and fear attached to the disease and lead to a more open approach
to HIV prevention and care. VCT could act as a catalyst to improve HIV
care in other hospital departments and health services, as well as raise
awareness and acceptance among health care workers. VCT may allow more
appropriate care for patients with HIV in general. VCT also serves as an
entry point, into Continuum of Care and is an excellent, link between
prevention & care HIV/AIDS programs. But in India, NACO & State AIDS
Societies really need lo accelerate their efforts if VCT program is to
succeed and help in controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Regards,
Dr Bitra George
Salaam Baalak Trust & Sharan
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(AIDS-INPIAl Response to: Alternative views to SANGRAM/VAMP activities
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Subject: [ALDS-LNDLAI Response to: Alternative views to SANGRAM/VAMP activities
Date: Mon. 25 Feb 2002 08:40:34 +0530
From: "Meena" <meena@pn3.vsnl.net.in>
To: "AIDS INDIA" <AJDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
This is in response to the message posted by Mr Pravin Patkar of..
I am shocked at the tone of hostility and prejudice the message is suffused
with. His personal diatribe against me and my organisation, his complete
dishonesty in distorting and taking our words and position statements out of
context
these are not ingredients for fruitful debate and discussion.
I refuse to respond to these references to 'crocodile tears'. If only Mr
Patkar really heard the voices of the women who were hounded, attacked and
abused, he would understand their plight better. Shababa Khazi, general
secretary of VAMP told a reporter that being abused as a woman in
prostitution was not the same as facing abuse for helping to organise women
against their oppressive conditions. Can there be a better indication of the
collective sense of self-worth and self-respect the women have wrested for
themselves as a collective? If this is what the local politicians and police
fear, are the Patkars of this world any different?
•
Unfortunately or fortunately, I know Mr Patkar well, both as a lecturer in
the TISS, which I graduated as a master in social work, and as a fellow
social worker who slogged for several years running an organisation in
Raigad district of Maharashtra called Parivartan '84.
I feel that he is a
sincere person, misguided certainly, but still sincere. Hence, 1 shall makeone last attempt to explain my position and reply to the charges he has
levelled against me.
i
Here goes:
1. As far as the quote in the book the heading actually says 'Do not bring
children into prostitution.'
That was a campaign we did requesting women in the devadasi belt to push the
age or entry because it gave us breathing space tor negotiation, besides i
deeply beleive that women who are in prostitution once empowered can take
informed decisions about such issues, and we can then together deal with the
violence that exists within prostittuion.
The outside world is so hostile to the women, i feel it is wrong to direct
them, raid them, rehabilitate them from the outside, a collective once built
will take informed decisions and it is their life. Durga who is a devadasi,
after our non-judgemental intervention has decided not to make her girl
child a devadasi. i am happy for her and we are doing everything to help her
educate her girl child, i firmly beleive that our intervention will help
manv such Durgas. this is a process it will take time and it is a process
that encourages women to collectively help redirect their lives, it is so
convenient to say Ban prostitution, this only helps it to go underground.the
women suffer, they have suffered for generations because no one cares enough
to hold their hand and help them help themselves.
2. Sangram supports the human rights of women regardless of the nature of
the work they do. We believe that rights are essential tools for fighting
exploitation and abuse, including in the sex industry. Mr. fatkar's solution
to the problem of 'prostitution' and ’exploitation' is not through
supporting the human rights of these women, but to eliminate the women, that
2/26/02 10:48 AM
1AIDS-INDIA1 Response to: Alternative views to SANGRAM/VAMP activities
exploitation of oppressed and stigmatized groups has always been to provide
them with the rights to fight the abuse, not to eliminate the group
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rights is quite simple? and consistent with what. Mr. Parkar describes as a
radical idea - that these women arc human and that human rights arc
non-negoLiable.
ihe allegations of Mr Patkar are not only false and malicious, they
undermine and are harmful to the rights of the very women he professes to be
helping.
3. Working with women in prostitution and sexwork in the HIV/AIDS prevention
program has helped address our own double standards and biases while
dealing with issues of sexuality and prostitution. As our involvement in the
program deepened, our beliefs, ideas and notions about prostitution and
women in prostitution underwent a sea change. Our perception of prostitution as
'exploitation, victimization, oppression, loose, immoral, illegal', was shaken to the
core.
Prostitution and sexwork as experienced by Women.
Women in prostitution, have had to bear the specter of being wanton
[liberated sexual beings], worthless [making money from sex] and weak
[morally]. The whore stigma emphasized the 'evil' [sic] influence of such
'base' women on the good moral behavior / character of society, deeming
them 'deviant' women who transgressed the norms of acceptable social behavior.
The concept of the debauched, debased and deviant woman has always
governed public opinion. Women have therefore been policed, coerced and raided, to be
rescued, reformed and rehabilitated by a society that would "like to order
and control their Lite styles"!, regulate or abolish prostitution.
It is apparent that while the "prostitution question”? will be continued
to be debated and arguments for and against, whether voluntary/forced,
'agency' / victim, trafficked / socialised, legal/ criminal, sexual slavery/ sexual
autonomy, exploited / liberated, will continue to occupy theorists,
activists, and Governments, prostitution as experienced by the women
themselves is not given the kind of recognition it deserves in these
debates.
In recent years, the discourse around prostitution has changed and is now
in the frame work of human rights. Feminists, theorists and
prostitutes rights activists are involved in unravelling the complex and
complicated world of sexual autonomy, free choice, sexual exploitation and
the agency versus victim debates. This discourse has helped in that it has
shifted the focus from blaming the woman and her sexual preference to a
continuum ranging from the 'beneficial exploitation of the institution of
prostitution ' to the 'inherent victimisation of the woman in
prostitution'.
Though the prostitutes' rights movement started in the late 60's and early
70’s, rhe ri g'nr.s approach has been challenged and will remain a dream as
long as it is plagued by advocates of the moral brigade or the proponents
of sexual autonomy and free choice, as mutually exclusive positions. While
the moral brigade argues that prostitution is inherently sexual exploitation
and violent, the free choice advocates argue that women 'choose' sexwork as
an option and therefore they have a right to the kind of work they choose.
Tile discourse however, falls to recognise the dynamics of an institution
2/26/02 10:48 AM
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that encompasses a wide spectrum of elements from violence, exploitation
on the one hand and autonomy, agency to choose the best possible available
options, on the other. Prostitution is a way of life. All women are not
victims and to believe that all women are there out of free choice is also
utopian.
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I appeal to everyone Lo come together
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and fight fox
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Lhe Lhe rights of all
women irrespective of how they make a living.
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In Solidarity,
meena saraswathi seshu.
E-mail: <meena@pn3.vsnl.net.in>
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Subject: [AlDS-lNDlAj NACO director acts when AIDS activits violated
Date: Thu. 21 Feb 2002 21:36:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Aditya Bondyopadhyay <adit_bond@yahoo.com>
To: aids-india@yahoogroups.com
Dear Mr. Prasada Rao,
As a concerned citizen and AIDS activist I am writing to express my thanks and
appreceation at the concern that you have publicly expressed regarding what has happened
with VAMP and its activists.
In india the most vulnerable segments affected by HIV/AIDS are also culturally and legally
highly marginalised. This increases their vulnerability. When state agencies actively
violate their rights, it affect that vulnerability. In that situation they look up to NACO
as the apex body responsible for the prevention of HIV/AIDS for support and strength. The
reason is not far to seek. The NACO policies are probably the only one in the entire
corpus of law and policies, that recognise the human rights of these vulnerable groups,
and recognise the human dignity of these groups. Also it is a fact that many NGOs are in
the activity of HIV prevention because of their having reposed faith NACO policies. In
that there is also a responsibility of NACO to come to their aid.
Under such a situation when something happens to impede the HIV/AIDS work with such
marginalised groups as CSV? or MSM, a public statement of support from NACO becomes a
source of strength. But silence from NACO results in a feeling of having been let down.
While the former has a positive impact on HIV prevention, the later sets back the progress
made, sometimes maybe by years.
I again state that I appreceate the fact that in spite of your constraints, this time you
have chosen to break the silence. Tr. is very courageous of you and will surely have a
positive effect on HIV/AIDS prevention work.
Regards
Aditya Bondyopadhyay
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|AlDS-l\DlAj NA DONAL AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL POLICY
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] NATIONAL AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL POLICY
Date: Mon. 08 Apr 2002 00:47:28 -0000
From: AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com
To: AlDS-lNDIA@yahoogroups.com
Dear Forum subscribers,
The latest National AIDS Prevention and Control Policy is posted on
the NACO webpage.
http://naco,nic.in/vsnaco/nacp/ctrlpol .htm
The following is the introduction of the policy document.
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Moderator
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 In India the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic is now 15 years old.
Within this short period it has emerged as one of the most serious
public health problems in the country. The initial cases of HIV/AIDS
were reported among commercial sex workers in Mumbai and Chennai and
injecting drug users in the north-eastern State of Manipur . The
infection has since then spread rapidly in the areas adjoining these
epicenters and by 1996 Maharashtra , Tamil Nadu and Manipur together
(accounted for 77 per cent of the total AIDS cases with Maharashtra
reporting almost half the number of cases in the country. Even though
the officially reported cases of HIV infections and full-blown AIDS
cases are in thousands only, it was realised that there is a wide gap
between the reported and estimated figures because of the absence of
epidemiological data in major parts of the country. The latest
estimate for the HIV/AIDS infected adult population in the country is
3.8 million in 2000. The overall prevalence in the country is still,
however, very low, a rate much lower than many other countries in the
Asia region.
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J World bank Induced Primary Health Care User Fees in Punjab. India
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] World Bank induced Primary Health Care User Fees in Punjab, India
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:32:42 -0500
From: vineeiag@saticiiamet.ui
To: "AIDS-INDLK-yahoogroups.com" <AIDS-INDIA®yahoogroups.com>
Sign on campaign demanding abolition of User Fee charges for the poor in
World Bank funded state health sector in Punjab, India
In the mid 1990s, the World Bank provided a loan to India to create the
Punjab Health Systems Corporation (PHSC). At the time, the Bank claimed the
program would promote transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the
health care system; and that the project would pay significant attention to
the needs ot women and the poor. In reality, the project has tar from lived
up to intentions. Most significantly, the PHSC project mandated the
application of user fee charges to those in need of medical services
regardless of patients' income levels. Marginalized groups, chiefly the
poor and women, have faced severe hardship in receiving medical attention,
because they cannot afford to pay the user foe charges as required for
health assistance.
In theory, the poor are exempt from the user tees charged tor medical care.
Howe^ljr, exemption mechanisms have failed to ensure the poor and 'women's
access to health care in Punjab, as well as in other Indian states that
have implemented similar World Bank projects. Exemption entitlements have
also been ineffective and counterproductive in Mali, Zimbabwe, and Ghana
where World Bank sponsored user fees have also been imposed.
In the case of the Punjab Health Systems Corporation, poorer patients must
request a 'yellow card' from the government in order to have the user tees
waived. Yet most poor patients are not even aware of the exemption card. If
they are aware, then the complex and costly procedures required to obtain
and retain their exempt status still excludes most of them from receiving
medical attention. As a result, they have to pay a user fee in addition to
bribes (to doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff) so that they might be
treated. In early 2001, only 44 'yellow cards' were distributed in a city
of about 270,000. This has led many poor people to seek medical care from
unqualified persons, using superstitious methods ot treating medical problems.
Therefore, INSAAF International in India has launched a campaign, forcing
the World Bank and PHSC to acknowledge and rectify the vast gap between
their stated policy goals and the realities of its implementation.
Moreover, in September-2001, after years of pressure by MGOs and citizen
gro'4O the World Bank was forced to change its policy on user fees, to
forbid the imposition of user fees on access Lo primary health care. This
change in policy must be applied to all of the World Bank's existing and
previous projects, such as the PHSC project in Punjab.
In February 2002, INSAAF International released a report documenting the
effects of the World Bank sponsored corporatization of Punjab's health care
system. India Together, a web magazine has summarized the report in the
adjoining article, "Yellow Cards for the Poor”.
http: //www.indiatogecher.org/health/reports/insaaf01 .him
Please support INSAAF International's efforts by participating in a
signature camoaign for the letter being sent to the World Bank and the PHSC.
- Vineeta Gupta, General Secretary, Insaaf International,
vineetag@sancharnet.m
LETTER
Please send your sign - ons to Shrayas Jatkar at shrayas@econjustice.net
3/11/02 9:38 AM
J World Bank Induced Primary Health Care User Fees in Punjab, India
Mr. James Wolfcnsohn
President
World Bank1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433
U.S.A-
Special Secretary Health cum Managing Director
Punjab Health Systems Corporation"
S.C.O 341-42, Sector 34A
Chandigarh, INDIA 1G0022
Dear Sirs,
The orders of the World Bank-funded Punjab Health Systems Corporation
(PHSC), Punjab, India to hike the user fee for health services and
elimination or subsidized fee structure for low income group is clearly
another example of the insidious World Bank strategy of charging the poor
when in fact its mission should be to deliver them services they could not
otherwise afford.
India is a welfare state, and the National Health Policy (NHP) emphasizes
the role of the state in providing basic health care. The objectives stated
in the project under which PHSC was created were to improve efficiency in
allocation and use of health resources through policy and institutional
development, improve the performance of the health care system, increase
coverage and effectiveness of services at the primary and secondary levels,
and to better serve the neediest sections of the population. But
tjng in fieri jaj nt the right tg health and
nracf i raj_l y it
undemining state responsibility in providing basic health care to its
citizSns. The poor and women are worst hit with the increased costs of the
treatment.
This is being done at a time when even the U.S. Congress has passed
legislation that strongly opposes this practice and when the World Bank
itself supposedly opposes user fees on primary health care. We strongly
condemn PHSC tor its anti poor and anti women policies.
We demand that these orders be reversed immediately.
Sincerely,
Dr. Vincota Cupta
General secretary, INSAAF
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International,
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Subject: [AlDS-lADlAj .In open letter to Hon. Minister Dr. C.P.Thakur
Date: Tue. 19 Mar 2002 08:59:10 -0000
Prom: ’’ Vim’r. Nadkanu" <vimlanadkarni#Tiotmail.com>'
To: AIDS-INDIA# vahoogroups.com
Dear Hon. Minister Dr. C.P.Thakur. For a change, we have a "professionally qualified" person as a
Minister which r* most unusual m our polity. Hcncc, vve expect enlightened responses as far as health
issues are concerned. Sir. you surprise us sometimes when your policies contradict themselves. On the
one hand, the NACO draft policy on I-HV AIDS is definitively against mandatory HIV tcstitic: on the
other hand, you have declar ed that all foreigner s entering India will be tested. Tliis reveals a wide gap
between what is advocated in principle and what is being preached in practice. Arc you not expecting a
boomera112 effect of other countries practising the same on us Indians who travel abroad
*Should we
not be focusing all our energies on using our limited resources on curbing the spread of HIV AIDS
among our own people rather than concentrating on a comparatively smaller group of tourists entering
our country. Wnat if these persons develop infection after visiting our country? Will vou be able to
identify them and then desire to throw them out? Do you think with such archaic practices, we will be
even considered for a share in the Global Health Fund? In the process of globalisation, cross-border
mobility is increasing dtrough different access and exit routes. Mow will you map those and control the
movements of so-called infected persons? Arc you planning testing centres along our borders? It is
possible that vou have made these statements under provocation We look forward to vour withdrawirm
ihese plans and instead, concentrating on adopting a rational comprehensive multi-sectoral secular
HTV/AIDS in letter and spirit. Vimla Nadkami E-mail:
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Subject: [AIDS-LND1A] 'AIDS Free Certificate' Mandatory for foreigners
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:36:10+0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworld(ajvsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afeb.org>
To: "AIDS INDIA” <AIDS-INDIA@yahoogroups.com>
PTI [ SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2002 1:06:24 AM ]
PATNA: The Centre is considering a proposal to make it compulsory for
foreigners to present 'AIDS free' certificate before they are allowed into
the country, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister C P Thakur said on
Saturday.
The measure had become necessary to check the rise of HIV cases following
contacts with foreigners visiting the country, he said quoting reports.
High-level meetings of the Union health and tourism ministries and ministry
of external affairs have already been held to give final touches to the
proposal and necessary details are being worked out so that the tourism
industry is not affected, he said.
He _£ai)d many countries in the world have taken similar steps to contain the
growth of AIDS. North Korea has made it compulsory for its citizens to
undergo Aids check-up before leaving the country and after arrival from
abroad. He stressed the need for mobilising additional funds for the health
sector and said several schemes were being planned by the Union health
ministry to attract NRIs.
He had also held many rounds of talks with top industrial houses and
requested them to spend time in the improvement of healthcare in the
country, particularly in the rural areas, the minister added.
?. low cost health insurance scheme would be introduced soon for the poor in
which people would be asked to contribute a small amount to get benefit of
the schsiP.e Thakur said.
He said a committee has been formed in the Union health ministry to keep a
tab on the spread of plague in the country, particularly in Himachal
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. On providing medical assistance to
-Afghanistan, he said the ministry had sent doctors, large quantities of
med^^ne and health equipment.
Forwarded by Chandrashekhar Vyas
FXE Madhya Pradesh
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A] Women and HIV’ in India
Subject: [AIDS-INDIA] Women and HIV in India
Date: Frl S Mar 2002 19:20:31 +0530
From: "Jagdish Harsh" <jamworid@vsnl.com>
Reply-To: "Jagdish Harsh" <jharsh@afxb.org>
To: "AIDS INDIA" <ALDS-HvDLA@yahoogroups.com>
HEALTH
The Pioneer March 8, 2002
Women are becoming increasingly affected by IIIV. About 42 per cent of estimated
cases are women, and the number of infected women touched 15 million by the year
2000. One in 13 women in India dies from pregnancy or childbirth related causes.
Awareness of AIDS among women has increased but it is still quite low - 40 per
cent nationwide. One-third of women, who have heard of it, do not know ways to
avoid it. Awareness is lowest in Bihar (12 percent) and also Uttar Pradesh (20
percent).
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[AIDS-INDIA] On AIDS vaccine trial in India
Moderator
Thanks lor inviting me to join the group. Still I am intrigued by the fact
how you came to know me and how am I got included in this list.
Anyway, Thanks for that. 1 am working in the field of HIV and actively
involved in the trcstmcDt of patients in HJV. For two years 1 worked in
Nepal and we had largest number of HIV patients in Nepal.
Regarding HIV vaccine: I attended the "International congress of
Immunology" held in New Delhi in Nov 1998 when preliminary' discussion
regarding AIDS vaccine in trial started.
I want to brins the fact that there are many clades of HIV virus in circulation like clade A and B
which are common in US and Europe and Clade C and D which are common in Thailand and
India respectively. The vaccine which has been developed on the basis of trials on one clade
cannot be tried in a society which has a different clade in circulation. I would like to know - How
the vaccine has been developed. Secondly if the trials are also starting in US simultaneously or
not.
Dr, Anurag Bharadwaj
MD. DM clinical Immunology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Melaka- Manipal Medical College
Jalan Batu Hampar, Bukit Baru, 75150 Melaka.Malaysia.
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The Times of India 9 May. 02
Nw. Delhi: With close io four million people estimated io be infected with HIV in India, a few
business houses are already having to reimburse huge medical bills even as most of them
incorporate programmes to prevent higher incidence of sickness.
Al a two-dav workshop organised bv the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry. represemmivss of sugar mills were ur°ed io lake up prevention programmes.
Some or the well-known industrial houses such as Larsen and Toub.ro, Glaxo, Mahindra and
Mahindra. Tata Tea.. Bajaj. TISCO as well as the Steel Authority of India already have a clearly
defined policy towards HIV, which addresses their concerns and is not violative of any human
rights, lie said.
In fact, the government is now actively turning to the industry for help in ATD^ prevention
efforts. Labour ministry joint secretary K Chandramauli said a tripartite mechanism involving
employers, trade unions and the government to prevent the spread of AIDS was being evolved.
J. he major challenge before the government was to reach out to the more vulnerable informal
sector. which forms cbout 93 ccr cent oi the loiul workforce in the country he scid. This he
agreed, wouid need a multipartite strategy. The labour ministry was trying to evolve programmes
Pargeting this workforce, he sr-irl
In the African countries, the epidemic has resulted in loss of skill and experience, rising labour
costs and reduced supply of labour. The workplace, it is felt, could play an important role in
limiting the spread and mitigating the impact of a ins
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Monday, May 13, 2002 3:22 PM
[AIDS-INDIA] Conference on 'HIV/AIDS in Burma'
CONFERENCE PROPOSAL 'HIV,'AIDS IN BURMA’
INTRODUCTION
A major concern in Burma in the last few years is the rapid spreading
of HIV/AIDS. It is clear that the infection rate in Burma qualifies as a
widespread generalised epidemic of 111V, with international estimates
of hundreds of thousands victims
Burma faces a most unfortunate sei of factors that increases the
magnitude of the HIV AIDS epidemic: drugs use. large sex-industry' and
trafficking of women, large population mobility due to migrant labour, forced
relocations and civil war. Other causes of the current epidemic are the failing
health system and the lack of large-scale education campaigns on this issue.
The military junta's original response wen! from complete denial to
beginning to admit that there is an HIV'AIDS problem.
A Burma Center Netherlands (BCN ) mission to India. Thailand and Burma
(NovcnibsiyDcconiber. 2001). assessed the needs of Burmese civil society
organisations in Burma and Thailand. One of the conclusions was that,
in relation to health and HIV/AIDS, information Hows between health and
relief organisations, and organisations specifically offering HIV/AIDS
programmes could be promoted and enhanced. Many of the people interviewed during the
mission welcomed the suggestion of organising a conference to start addressing this.
In December 1997 BCN oraanised a conference on 'Strensthenins Civil
Society in Burma - possibilities and dilemmas for international NGOs'.
Participants came from INGOs working inside Burma, working cross-border or working with
Burmese communities in Burma's neighbouring countries. Our experience is that as a non
stakeholder, meaning BCN neither being a funding agency nor a development agency, we are
weli situated to organise such a
conference.
On this matter we like to invite you to share your organisational and
personal opinions, views, policies and particularly practical and
motivating perspectives during a 2-day conference.
ti-ih CONFERENCE
The conference will be held October 2002. in Bangkok (Thailand). This
will enable participants from inside Burma as well as people working in the
border area, to participate. The conference will be a 2-day activity, during which the participants
exchange their experiences in relation to their HIV/AIDS programmes and activities. The
sessions are closed for public and journalists. The atmosphere should be open and participants
should feel free lo speak
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CONFERENCE GOALS
By providing a platform for organisations working onlUV/AJDS in
Burma where they can exchange views, the conference wants to:
- Assess the HIV AIDS situation in Burma and among Burmese
refugee communities;
- Assess HTV ATDS programmes being carried out by TNGOs, TIN
agencies and Burmese organisations in terms of programme activities and
effects:
- Strengthen the capacity of such organisations to deal with the
HIV/A IDS epidemic;
- Contribute to an improvement of the effects of health
programmes in general.
TARGET GROUPS
- Burmese organisations. INGOs and UN agencies with programmes
and activities on HTV/'ATDS in Burma.
INPUT, OUTPUT AND FOLLOW UP
- A BCN staff will collect information about the different
h] V'.a ips rciaicd activities beforehand and svnthesise this into a
(nqnor1
- The inputs during die conference wili be published into a
conference report. Depending on sensitivity of the inputs and/or upon the
request of participating organisations part or all of the inputs will be kept
internal:
- Any other follow-up activity proposed by the conference
participants, like a lobby paper on HIV/AIDS towards governments.
THE CONFERENCE AGENDA
(for now)
Dais; week 42; 17-18 October. 2002
Place: Royal Benja Hotel
Sukhumvit Soi 5
Bangkok 10110
Day 1 17 October, 2002.
1. Opening and welcome 10.00 - 10.15
2. Introduction meeting participants
10.15 11.00
3. HTV/ATDS in Burma: present situation
11.00-
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15.30 - 16.00
Dav 2 18 October. 2002.
1. Exchange of opinions concerning the programmes
10.00- 1E30
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11.30 - 12.30
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14.00- 15.00
4. Conference's conclusions
15.00- 15.30
5. Closing
15.30 - 16.00
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[AIDS-INDIA] India's politicians bury differences in fight on HIV/AIDS
India's politicians bun' differences in fight on HIV/AIDS
Sat May 11, 6:07 AM ET
By NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press Writer
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NEW DELHI, India - Faced with an emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic, India's
ruling and opposition partv leaders buried their differences briefly
Saturday to map out a campaign to tackle the disease.
"This is a concern that is shared eqttally by the central and state
governments, as also by all political parties." said Prime Minister
Atal Biliari Vajpayee.
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He was speaking at the opening of a conference to encourage lawmakers
and officials at federal, state and village levels to increase
awareness about the disease and how to prevent its spread.
After South Africa, India has the second highest number ofHIV/AIDS
carriers of any country' in the world, with 4 million, according to
India's official AIDS control body. The United Nations estimates
there are 40 million people infected worldwide.
Experts said that India had lost precious years in the initial stages
of the epidemic when authorities denied HIV/AIDS was a problem. Many
sufferers have shied away from seeking help because of the stigma of
the disease, they said.
•
"Valuable time was lost in the late 80s when (he epidemic could have
been caught in its early stages and could have been stamped out, as
the government s health agencies were in denial,' said Suniti
Solomon, a doctor working with a non-governmental organization in
western Maharashtra state.
;
Vajpayee said lawmakers must take the initiative in shedding
prejudice and helping HIV/AIDS sufferers lead normal lives.
Sonia Gandhi, leader of the opposition Congress party, asked Indians
to be "compassionate in their approach, and passionate in their
commitment to prevent HIV/AIDS."
;
Gandhi said India, a nation of 1.02 billion, has succeeded in
eliminating small pox and will soon have eliminated polio. HIV/AIDS
should be tackled with the same zeal, she said.
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1 he conference. organized bv the inrem^rion^l AIDS Vaccme
Initiative ana other groups, brought together parliamentarians,
health policy-makers and non-governmental organizations from eight
developing countries.
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Saturday, May 11, 2002 3:00 PM
[AIDS-INDIA] New CDC Treatment Guidelines for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
New CDC Treatment Guidelines Critical to Preventing Health
Consequences of Sexually Transmitted Diseases"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) (05.10.02)
The CDC has issued national guidelines to help health care
providers protect their patients from the health consequences of
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). CDC revises the guidelines
periodically (approximately ever/ four years). This is the fifth
CDC edition of the guidelines. Major recommendations include:
’'Chlamydia screening is advised annually for sexually active
adolescent (19 years old and under) and young adult (20- to 24
years-old) women. Even without symptoms, screening is
recommended, as well as screening older women with a risk factor
for chlamydia (a new partner or multiple sexual partners). It is
also now recommended that, all women with chlamydial infections be
rescreened three to four months after treatment is completed.
This is the first time CDC has recommended rcscrccning in
the management of chlamydia. Chlamydia is concentrated among
female adolescents. In the United States, millions of cases go
unrecognized. Reinfection with chlamydial infection is a key risk
factor for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can damage the
fallopian tubes, uterus and ovaries, arid cause chronic pelvic
pain. One in five women with PID also become infertile. Moreover,
women infected with chlamydia are up to five times more likely to
become infected with HIV, if exposed. Chlamydia is the most
commonly reported infectious disease in the United States;
702,093 cases were reported in 2000.
♦Alternative gonorrhea treatments in the wake of increasing drug
resistance in California. Gonorrhea is the second most common
infectious disease reported to CDC, with nearly 360,000 cases in
2000. Drug-resistant strains are becoming increasingly common in
the United Slates Ciprofloxacin-resistant gonorrhea was found to
be endemic to Hawaii in 2000, when CDC recommended that the state
cease its use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics - ciprofloxacin,
ofloxacin, and levofloxacin - for treating gonorrhea.
*- iprofioxacin-resislani strains have become so common on the
west coast mat she use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics to treat
gonorrhea is inadvisable in California. Previously. CDC
recommended that fluoroquinolones not be prescribed for treating
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gonorrhea in Hawaii and in those patients who visited the island
slate, other Pacific Islands, or Asia, because a substantial
proportion of the gonorrhea cases in those areas are resistant to
ciprofloxacin. The antibiotics cefixiine and ceftriaxone are now
recommended as first-line drugs to treat gonorrhea in Hawaii and
California.
CDC made these new recommendations after examining data from
the Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP), a CDCsponsored surveillance system, which monitors drug resistance of
gonorrhea. The GISP project is limited to several areas in the
United States. It is critical therefore that local data are
available to guide prescribing recommendations. Most importantly.
data from local drug susceptibility testing are necessary to
guide local treatment recommendations. CDC requests that local
and state public health professionals and health care providers
report cases of gonorrhea that are resistant to any recommended
antibiotics. If not treated successfully, gonorrhea can cause PID
and can facilitate HIV transmission.
^Expanded risk assessment and screening among gay and bisexual
men. Recent data have shown a higher frequency of unprotected sex
and increased rates of syphilis and gonorrhea in many US cities
among men who have sex with men (MSM). many of whom are HIV
infected. To highlight the critical need for health care
providers to expand screening and treatment of STDs among IVISIVI,
the new guidelines include detailed recommendations for this
high-risk population.
The new guidelines urge health care providers to assess the
sexual risk for all male patients, including the gender of
partners. For MSM patients who are sexually active, the
guidelines recommend annual screening for STDs - HIV, chlamydia
(anal, urethral), syphilis and gonorrhea (anal, pharyngeal,
urethral) - and vaccination against hepatitis A and B. More
frequent STD screening may be indicated for those who indicate
having multiple anonymous partners or having sex in conjunction
with illicit druc use.
*New serological tests available to help diagnose genital herpes.
An estimated one million people are newly infected with the
Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) each year. While most people have mild
or unrecognized symptoms and remain undiagnosed, many individuals
seek medical attention when they begin to suffer from the painful
ulcers characteristic of this viral disease. Now, new testing
procedures may help providers with diagnosing and managing
genital herpes type one (IISV-1) or type two (IISV-2).
Since antiviral therapy may benefit individuals with herpes
symptoms, providers can tailor counseling and treatment plans to
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best fit their needs. Patients infected with HSV-2 (the most
common) can choose from suppressive or episodic antiviral
treatments. Genital HSV-1, which is often caused by oral-genital
sexual contact with a person with an oral HSV-1 infection (fever
blister), is much less likely to recur, and treatment may only be
needed in patients with initial symptoms.
HSV may play a major role in the spread of HTV. HSV stays in
the body indefinitely and is incurable. In the United States, an
estimated 50 million people are infected.
*Prevention of STDs. The guidelines encourage health care
providers to focus on risk assessment and counseling in addition
io xhc clinics! aspects of STD control - screenins and
treatment. Providers are encouraged to use client-centered
counseling approaches tailored for each of their patients. To
avoid the spread of STDs, the guidelines suggest patients should
abstain from oral, vaginal or anal sex. Patients who are sexually
active should be counseled to be in a mutually monogamous
relationship with an uninfected partner or use a condom during
each sexual act.
*The use of Nonoxynol-9 (N-9). Recent studies have found that
frequent use of N-9, a spermicide contraceptive, can cause
genital lesions (in the vagina) and, therefore, may increase the
risk of HIV transmission. It has also been found to cause damage
to the lining of the rectum, providing an entry point for rUV and
other STDs.
Spermicides - especially those that contain N-9 - should
not be used for STD prevention. Furthermore, N-9 lubricants
should not be used during anal intercourse. While the level of N9 used as a lubricant in condoms is much lower than the level
found to be harmfill, condoms lubricated with N-9 spermicide also
are not recommended because they have a shorter shelf life, cost
more and have been associated with urinary tract infections in
women. However, previously purchased condoms with N-9 can be
used, provided they have not passed their expiration date, since
the protection provided by the condom against HIV outweighs the
potential risk of N-9.
The 2002 Guidelines for the Treatment of Sexually
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Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:41 PM
[AIDS-INDIA] US Lawmakers Propose New Protections for Human Research Subjects
Lawmakers Propose New Protections for Human Research Subjects
WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) May 09 - Human subjects would have a
legal right io be made aware of researchers' conflicts of interest
under a bipartisan bill introduced in the US House on Thursday.
The proposal would require researchers condtictins studies with tax
dollars to disclose their conflicts of interest both to patients and
to institutional review boards (IRBs). Similarly, members of IRBs
would have to report their financial ties with industry to academic
institutions.
The bill, introduced by Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and James
Greenwood (R-CA), also writes into law the federal Office of Human
Research Protection. The office already operates within the
Department of Health and Human Services but has no authorization from
Congress.
The bill is a largely a rehash of a proposal introduced in the US
House in 2000. But the new legislation avoids several controversial
areas that thwarted agreement among lawmakers in the past.
Momentum for passing human research rules in Congress has mounted in
the wake of several highly publicized deaths of patients involved in
experiments at US universities. They include the death of 18-ycar-old
Jesse Gelsinger during a gene therapy trial at Baltimore's Johns
Hopkins University in early 2000.
The proposal applies the Common Rule — a set of federal research
regulations — to all public and private research conducted at
hospitals and academic medical centers and by contract research
organizations.
It allows IRBs to pay for heightened responsibilities by talcing
overhead costs out of grant money coming from funders like the
National Institutes of Health. The money could go to enhanced
education and training of members and new federal reporting
requirements ordered under the proposal.
The bill avoids forcing IRBs to obtain federal accreditation before
reviewing research. Some Democrats in the Senate, which is working on
its own research protection legislation, have called for such a
requirement.
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Sponsors said that thev worked closeiv with the health industry and
academic research groups tn crafting the legislation. Those groups
have warned that overly restrictive laws could slow down important
tosearch.
'The goal of this legislation is to improve, and not to hinder,
medical research," DeGette said.
The bill calls on federal officials to harmonize government research
regulations that have been a source of confusion for some
investigators. It would compel the HHS Secretary' to come up with
regulations that find a middle ground between rules in the Food, Drug
and Cosmetics Act. which governs privately7 funded research, and the
Public Health Services Act, which governs publicly funded
experiments.
Recommendations issued in April 2000 by the HHS Inspector General
urged Congress to address conflicts of interest, mounting IRB
workloads, and spotty federal oversight of human studies.
"We've adopted virtually every one of the recommendations," said Rep.
Greenwood, who chairs the Energy and Commerce health subcommittee.
The new proposal includes no civil or criminal penalties on
researchers instirutioiis or companies who break the law. "We want
to see how well compliance works with what we've proposed," one House
Democratic aide said.
Greenwood said that the Biotechnology Industry Organization has
thrown its support behind the proposal, though the group was not
available to comment on the bill by press time.
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Saturday. May 18, 2002 5 17 PM
[AIDS-INDIA] Re: AIDS vaccine raises many questions
Dear all.
The vaccine is still miles away. Since in view of catastrophic repercussions of the AIDS
pandemic, the vaccine is badly needed, such an initiative or news will have a lot of
reamifications. Therefore the concerns express in the times of india news are not without basis.
But as pionted out rightly that the vaccine is miles away and raising eyebrows so curiously is not
fair. even though srnnted th&t it is a 21'cal public concern.
To me the announcement made at the press conference on the eve of the constitution of a
Parliamentarians forum on AIDS is an encouraging news on the face of it.
Unless something is started the deep anxiety in the minds of the affected and infected cannot be
set at rest. 1 too feel that strict adherence to ethical
demands must be the rule and nothing on possible side effects of the trial dose should be bidden
and enlightened and informed acceptance must be ensured
without any hesitation whatsoever.
I am not a scientific expert and would not like to support or counter the move without knowing its
all implications. 1 have seen 1AV1 in active parleys in
the African countries, for India also, it is ver/ crucial and I concede that mere need should not
dictate the means and the ends. Public must be kept
well informed about both sides of the coin so that this effort receives the much needed credence.
sincerely
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[ASDS-IMDIA] Mumbai Hospital will distribute free AIDS drug
Mumbai hospital will distribute free AIDS drag
The Asian Age 17 May. 2002:MUMBAI. MAY 16: The K.J. Somaiya Hospital and Medical
College will be the firs! private hospital io offer Nevirapine prophylaxis (<_> patients of its
gynaecology department free of cost.
1 he drag has proved effective in preventing the transfer of H1V/A1DS from pregnant women to
their unborn foetus and is being promoted by the Maharahstra District AIDS Control Society as
port of 2 orosr-U'uue to prevent 2nd control the spread of A TPS.
Jt has been found that there is a 25 to 14 per cent chance of HIV being transmitted from mothers
to their babies in developing countries, as opposed to a 15 to 25 per risk in developed countries
due to the practise of breast feeding. J 00.000 HIV-infected women deliver every year, leaving the
Ina s!udv condi'eted between April 2000 and September 2001 mil institutions m Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu, Andhra Piadesh, Karnataka and Manipur by the National AIDS Control
Organisation and the government of India. 40 per cent of the woman in ante natal care said their
spouses had multiple sex partners. The programme was conceived by the National AIDS Control
Society under the suiidance of U"NIC’£F snd is beins worked out through state level bodies like
MDACS.
Dr. Shanta Shivkvmar ofMDACS said: "The project has been running in other medical colleges
like Nair, KEM. and JJ Hospital. Sut among private hospitals, Somiaya is the first one."
Under the programme, certain centres are selected and provided with basic infrastructure such as
diagnostic kits, a refrigerator, infant meter and of course, the drug. Speaking about the rationale
behind the project, Dr Lalit Mehta, dean of K.J. Somaiya Hospital and Medical College, said:
"The disease is being fought al different levels. Since there is no treatment available, the only
cure is prevention. Banners and slogans arc one way by which prevention can be done. Another
front is the prevention of transmission from mother to baby.
Dr. Jagdish Harsh (jharsh.~g.afeb.org)
Director of Administration and Operations
Francois-Xavier Ragnoud INDIA ( www.fxb.org )
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Friday. Mav 17, 2002 C 38 AM
[AIDS-INDIA] Re: Questions from the Fire Brigade staff
Dear Mr. Shadab
This is in response to questions received by you from the fire
brigade staff. I asked our Advisors working in the field of
HIV'AIDS and their answers are given below :
D Bodv flum of a dead person is likclv to have lost potency and
hence the virus may not be able to live.
2) To get infected you need to get it inside vour body fluid. If
you have a cut your blood will be gushing out and not in hence I don’t think you have any chances
of setting infected.
Others' comments on these points would be welcome.
Rsscirds
Pa wan Dh-.d!
Secretary, Integration
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Fripsaw Mav "<7 /Hilz 5
[A!DS-!ND!A] Re: Questions from the Fire Brigade staff
Dear Mr. Shadab:
In addition to the feedback from Pawal. i would like to suggest the fire brigade staff to use
rectified spirit and rub their hands first before holding any decomposed body. Rubbing spirit
would help identify' cuts which cam be seen with the naked eye. If you have cuts or wounds, using
surgical trlcA cs would be a wise Precaution. If the department comd .Mipuly me mcmicd spirit in
every Fire Engine that goes to the scene of the indicidents that would help the brave men of our
Country who are enlisted in the Fire Department prevent themselves from infection.
John
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Thursday. May 16, 2002 2:25 PM
[AIDS-INDIA] KSSP- AIDS Candle Light Memorial inTrivandrum.
[KSSP is one of the largest people's science movement in the country and it is significant that
KSSP is aetins involved in AIDS Candle Lisin Memorial and Dr B.Ekbal Vice chancellor.
Universib. of Kerala, will deliver the memorial oration. Moderator]
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On Mav 19th thousands of individuals in more th2n 1500 communities in 85 countries will
p2.nicip3.ic in iho worlds Iciucsi 2nd oldest 3miU31 grassroots HIV /vEEjS event. The
International AIDS Candie Light Memorial is designed to honor the memory of those lost to
HIVZAJDS. show support for those living with HTV/AIDS, raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and
mobilize community involvement in the fight against HTV/AIDS .
ihrani, KSSP and KHSRC are jointly organising the International AIDS
Candle Lisht Memorial on Sundav 19th May 2002 at 5 pm. The venue is
Parishad Bhavan (KSSP office), Kuihiravattom Lune,Trivandrum.
Dr B.Ekbal Vice chancellor. University of Kerala will deliver the memorial
oration. Kindly make it convenient to attend the function.
With Regards from
Tlirani
Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad
Kerala Health Studies and Research Centre
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[AIDS-INDIA] AIDS prevention in Kashmir: A jihad against Aids
A jihad against Aids
Campaigners in Kashmir. desperate to stop the disease spreading, are
enlisting the unlikely services of conservative holy men
Amrit Dhillon. Guardian. Thursday Nlay 16, 2002
If the best vehicle for educating a Muslim population about Aids is
one th2i carries auihoritv. enjovs mass reach and possesses the power
to convince, who better than the person who leads prayers at a
mosque? Particularly in a predominantly Muslim region such as the
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That, al least, is the thinking behind the latest campaign to stop
Aids spreading in this part of India. Imams are being enlisted
because every’ Friday ihev preach to a group of captive and receptive
Muslim males. Before prayers, they deliver the khulba, or sermon,
during which, in addition to religious topics, they may choose to
educate their congregations on education, civic sense, hygiene or
health.
"When a polio vaccination programme is going on, for example, imams
often use the khutba to remind people to gel their children
vaccinated," says Kamal Faruqi of the Muslim personal law board in
New Delhi. "The turnout is higher than it would be otherwise. If this
platform is used for spreading Aids information, it could be really
effective."
Aids campaigners in Kashmir are hoping that imams preaching the need
for sexual restraint and the use of condoms will be more effective
than leaflcting or radio and television campaigns have been so far in
Kashmir's deeply conservative society. The views of Sayeed Agha, a
teenager in Srinagar, are tvpical. He says he has never discussed the
topic of safe sex with his parents. "They would think I was being
disrespectful."
Although the Kashmir Valley has one of the lowest rates of Aids in
India, the latest figures from the National aids control organisation
(Naco) suggest that the number of I-HV-positive cases has increased by
66% in the past four years. A UN Aids report puts India's HIV
population al 4.1 million, the largest in the world after South
Africa. Experts believe that the epidemic could shatter the country.
But so far, the government has been in stubborn denial, with some
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conspiiacy io ircip lndi3 inio dependence on niulu- nationals
Aids drugs’’.
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What frightens Aids campaigners is the widespread ignorance, a fact
that emerged during the first "orientation" workshop held last month
in Srinagar for 25 imams chosen to lead the project. "The aim of the
workshop was to raise their level knowledge about the virus, ethical
issues, and the impact it is having on human lives," says Ashok
Parmar, the project director at the Jammu & Kashmir Aids control
society. "Many of them were shocked at the tragedies unfolding every
day here. In fact, one of the younger imams turned angrily to an
older imam sitting next to him and said 'if things have got to this
sici2.c, it’s because von lot have kept Quiet about it'. The whole
thing was a kind of wake-up call for them.”
The plan to enlist imams has been inspired by a hugely successful
experiment in Africa. It involved motivating and training imams in
Uganda, Senegal and Ghana who then went to their mosques and told
people how to avoid gening Aids; in Uganda, it was called the "Jihad
Aoainst Aids". The model, hailed by the UN, is now inspiring other
countries with large Muslim populations to devise a specifically
Islamic approach to Aids prevention that combines health information
with Koranic teachings proscribing adultery and pre-mantal sex.
The first training workshop for Kashmiri imams will be held next
month. "There is really so much in the Koran that imams could use to
buttress the whole Aids message." says Sayeeda Hameed. of the Muslim
women's forum. "The only drawback is that it leaves out women, who
are not allowed to pray in mosques, but they can be reached in other
ways. And if men become aware, that’s half the problem solved
anyway."
But by far the most contentions issue, both in Africa and in Kashmir,
is the use of condoms. Imams fear that recommending them could
promote sex outside marriage. It took Aids project leaders in Africa
a year to convince imams that the condom was only being promoted
after the failure of the first two lines of protection - abstaining
from sex and having sex only within marriage. "Don’t forget that
human beings have weaknesses." Islamic leaders were told. Needless to
say, the message was ignored.
Then campaigners tried another tactic, pointing out that knowledge of
condoms did not imply that they would be used irresponsibly. After
all, they argued. Muslims know all about alcohol but it doesn't mean
they run around guzzling the stuff. This seemed to do the trick.
After much theological angst. Islamic leaders consented to let imams
promote condom use. In Kash mir, meanwhile, Parmar and his colleagues
will have to wait to see what stand the imams lake.
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Dr Mohammed Shaukat, who works with Naco, foresees no major problem
although he acknowledges that Islamic thought on condoms varies
considerably. "It will look very odd if someone who has been
thundering against the use of condoms, even for family planning.
suddenly says that the Aids threat makes using them all right, so the
imams will have to take the masses with them gradually. But f don't
see why it should be a problem, particular!’.' if lie warns them tiiat
condoms are not a licence for licentiousness."
Anothei vital message the imams will be expected to put across is tne
need for humane behaviour towards those who are HIV-positive. Parmar
says imams will be urged to teach compassion and to condemn the
tendency to stigmatise. Cruelty, bred of fear and ignorance, is
widespread in India, from the cities to remote villages. When Govind
Singh, a labourer who contracted the virus in Bombay, returned to his
village in Uttar Pradesh last year members of his own family and
almost the entire fear-crazed population dragged him into a goie (an
enclosure where cows and goals are kept) and locked him up. His wife
and children threw chapattis to Singh. In the last stages, he was
usually lying on the floor, unable to stand or wash. He died a few
weeks later.
Mufti Nazir Ahmed, a religious scholar in Kashmir who has written a
booklet on Islam and Aids, conducted the first workshop and spoke at
length about the human suffering. "I told them about a migrant
labourer who caught the virus from a prostitute and came back and
infected his wife. When he found out about his wife, he tried to kill
her. their two children and himself with poison. They died but he
survived. These are the tragic stories that need to be exposed."
Kashmir is a delicate area for Aids campaigners for another reason,
too. Muslim separatists have been fighting for secession from India
for years. Extremist groups have proliferated and the atmosphere is
volatile. It would be very easy for a Muslim fanatic to portray the
way Islam can be a tool in the war against Aids as another mark of
its "superiority" to other faiths. For example, one Muslim journalist
who attended the workshop went away and wrote an ecstatic report
on "how only Islam, because of its power and majesty, can be
effective against this scourge".
Even Mufti Nazir Ahmed, in his booklet on Islam and Aids, talks of
how 15 centuries earlier, the prophet had predicted the "spread of a
terrible and hitherto unknown disease as a result of people indulging
in obscene practices".
So some things about the project need to lie watched, a point conceded
by Parmar and his colleagues who say it will be monitored closely. As
one local government official said: "We've got enough problems here
without turning the fight against Aids into an explosive issue."
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Subject: ISAAT1111J Declaration from the Policy Makers Conference
Date: Mon. 20 Mav 2002 20:10:58 -0000
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;This Declaration was issued at the International Policymakers
Conference ?n HIV7AIDS, Kay 2002 in New Delhi./
PARLIA’ KTAP.T ?NS ' CO:"-’" ^-.N:
May 11-12,2002
Or'ARDS A XOkLc’ WITHOUT AIDS
Ths HZV/AIDS epidemic const'
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tutes a olobal health emerciencY of
unprecedented magnitude mat txiipacts economic ano social development
worldwide and in particular the developing world.
To combat this
global tragedy,, a comprehensive strategy is needed to focus on issues
including health care, prevention, support, and treatment, within a
local framework designed tn '■'■rote
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With 15 000 rmw
HIV in tec. r. i c ns daily, there is r:: time to delay.
We, the undersigned, pledge to provide leadership and take concrete
action to address the comp e-vrees and challenges presented by the
epidemic, building on the 1T\ Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS’
arid other internaLlonal, regional, and national agreements.
We pledge to actively involve affected communities, including
organizations of people livino with HIV/AIDS in policy formulation
and imp1ement a t i on.
We pledge to inform, educate, communicate and develop strategies,
working closely with affected communities, to promote effective AIDS
prevention initiatives.
We pledge co identify and begin to address those factors that make
individuals particularly vulnerable to HIV infection, including
underdevelopment, poverty, illiteracy, lack of empowerment of women,
and all tvoes of sexual exploitation.
We pledge to promote social acceptance and respect for the dignity and
rights of all people affected by HIV/AIDS and to oppose all forms of
stigma and discrimination.
We pledge to increase awareness and upgrade knowledge in societies
inhibited by ignorance and deep seated cultural and social prejudices.
We pledge to make every effort to provide progressively and in a
sustainable manner, the highest attainable standard of treatment and
care to people living with HIV/AIDS.
We pledge to supoort research and development of AIDS vaccines and
other prevention techno’• ogi es, keeping in mind r.’ne pressing needs of
We pledge to support the acceleration of scientific progress,
adhering to the mghest ethica. standards in the research,
development, delivery, and. use of prevention technologies.
infrastructure and take other measures to
ive use or affordable, life-saving AIDS
accines when they become available.
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Subject: [SAATHili FOCISSJ5G OA YOUAG ADULTS
Date: Tue 21 Mav 2002 22:25:58 -0530
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"Adolescence '10- 19 years: is a powerfully formative time of transition to
adulthood. What happens in this age, whether for good or ill, shapes how
Yet, what adolescents do share across these boundaries is a barrier to
information and counselling, skills and services.
This covers a wide
spectrum, from nutrition necessities, drug abuse, literacy, sanitation,
employment opportunities and maternal mortality to
infections
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sexually transmitted
incl-ocino HIV/A1DS.
The centre of the adolescent problematique remains sexual and reproductive
demographics—y
ivated.
In particular, gender issues have been greatly
neglected despite me fact that many more girls marry early and have little
or no control over their bodies and face high risks associated with early
sexual activity. Gender differences also ensure that the world expands for
(including power --r girls' reproductive and sexual lives); girls are
systematically deprived of these assets.
Young women and girls' social and
economic uisaavancages have many direct and indirect influences on their
sexn?.' and renrnoucr.: ve health.
young peop
sexuality is almost universal.
For
sexually acccvs young people, particularly those who are not married,
obtaining reproductive health services is even more difficult than gaining
accurate, culturally relevant, age-specific information.
Few clinics are
designed,
prepared or even willing,
to provide services to young people.
Many young people are _eft with an unmet need for contraception and other
reproductive health services. Growing concern within the health conSSunity
about the alarming increase m the number of HIV-infected vouth,
particularly females, have spawned the need for research on adolescent
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including Hiv. Street c.ii_dren in Jakarta, Indonesia, have reported that
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living on the streets.
unaware of trie HI7/AIDS risk and. unable to take protective action. The
sexual exploitation of girls is one of the most pernicious forms of child
abuse. Admittedly, not al_ sex work is forced. Many women turn to
occasiona" or steady sex work as an alternative to dire poverty, exchanging
sex for the basic necessities of life for themselves and" their children.
Indeed, fox girls and women in many cultures, sex is trie currency with which
they are expected to pay tor lire’s opportunities, from a passing grade in
school to a trading license or permission to cross a border.
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University of Kerala. Thimvonamhapuram, Kerala
Dr.B.Ekbal, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kerala
The Telephone Counselling Service of the University of Kerala has the
following objectives:
1. To provide information on Reproductive and Sexual Health of
adolescents and youth. HIV AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections,
socio-psycho-fami’ial problems, anxieties, suicide tendencies,
gender, sexuality and other related areas.
2. To facilitate educational Counselling and guidance to students and
parents.
3. To help sort out problems of youth and reduce their anxieties.
4. Io i’ccouiUj-CHu- rcaCiiuls in tlic cusc Ox ilio needy.
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utterly frustrated and miserable.
At an average the service replies 150 calls a day per month. Out of
these more than 50 percent arc IUV risk calls. The nature of risk
arises from multiple sex partners, homosexuality among men (MSM),
child sex abuse and substance abuse. Very few calls came from AJDS
patients.
The Telephone Counselling Service organized under the Centre for
Adult Continuing Education and Education (CACHE) of the University
concentrates on the following types of service for H1V/A1DS:
1. Informative: Under this type of calls we give information on the
nature of contraction of HIV, the types of tests for HIV detection
including the Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre (VCTC)
facilitv recently established in the Public Health Laboratory,
circumstances and risk factors leading to HIV infection.
2. Preventive: For this type of calls we explain the clients about
abstinence, safe se.x. responsible sexual behaviour, and avoidance of
risk factors including Commercial Sex Workers and multiple sex
partners and avoidance of marriage in the case of unmarried HIV
infected clients.
3. Keassurina: this is. a confidence building precess for the clients
wnr. nrf. hndty >n need of Counseilinu. a son of dial before vou
dig'. Ciiems are thwaned from unwanted suicide attempt and irone
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that tile is instilled in them. They arc also given Counselling to
seek medical assistance and minsle m society without air- possibility
for coniractine HIy to others.
Impact of the Service
The service is found to be hieb.lv useful and society at large as
noted from the repeated calls that we get from clients. They take tne
service in fttii confidence and confide in us their innermost sorrows
and wwA. Sr>me chenrs have demanded personal Counselling as
they were convinced that they could trust us. They seek our
assistance for referrals also for which we direct them to the members
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Lceal Aids Cell. Department 011 svcnoiOgy. Nfccrical College Hospital.
Department oi Health Services and the 1 hiruvananthapuram Medical
College Women and Children’s Hospital.
Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) for clients having risk taking
behaviour.
On-line and ongoing training to counselors.
Timely and accurate intervention of and networking with patients.
Documentation of all calls for case analysis.
Linked to Dt. PRAM (Physician Responsible for .AIDS Management and
Depurv Nodal Officer, AIDS Management) and operate a direct hotline
with PRAM.
Immediate psychological management by Clinical Psychologist.
Counselling mainly aiming at broadening knowledge base, bringing in
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SaturQ2y. May 18, /CO? 9 00 PM
[AIDS-INDIA] United voice io fight. Declare AIDS as an emegency health problem
I am ven7 surprised and dennresed to know the facts about the Global
Funding on Indi;1, from Mr. J V R Prasad Rao .
In India right in the year of 1986 HIV was diagonised first and now
we are having the second highest number o± HIV/AIDS people in die
world. stil we sre senins jusx 1 8% of tiie iiind This is sniszins
Whti! the Government of India was doing since these long 15 years ?
Lot of people are talking about the awarenes but what is the success
rate of that. Dio me Government of Lidia surveyed about the result
of awareness ?
What wil happen to the people who are already effected ? Wil they die
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I have being waching people dying of AIDS without doing anything
regarding txic proper treatment. »Ve just cannot acept this .
According to me the Government of India should declear it as an
emegency health problem immidiately before it is loo line .
The day is not so far when thousands of HTV+ people wil merch in the
capital of India .
I hope more and more people wil vew there opinion about this .
Regards .
Joydev Chatierjee(HIV-)
Network for positive people in West Bcngal(Fn-joy)
Calcutta. West Bengal.
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Subject: [A1DS-LXDIA] Mapping of Vulnerable Populations in Rajasthan
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:24:42 -0700
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i have teen fcllt'-.’ing the interesting line of discussions caking place in this
forum and I fe$l this is the best plate to place my queries. Presently I am
working on "mappino of vulnerable peculation to HIV/AIDS in the state of
Rajasthan”,
the biggest province of India.
To start with,
listing of parameters for vulnerable
index through secc
1 would request the readers to assist me in the following
I have begun working on
data.
" . Has there beer a s-r-i’ar k-ind of study/researches conducted in South Asia or
elsewhere?
2. What Is .he ■. ulnet ability lade.-. for HIv'/A.IDS and its determinants?
3. What are the key issues to keep in mind while mapping of vulnerable
population?
4. The immediate nrchlem which I am facing is lack of concrete official database
etc.
This may involve lot of approximation to get to the estimated number of the
above vulnerable populations. Has some work similar to this been done? If yes,
what was the methodology t: get to the estimated numbers?
Shama Afroz
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Date: Tue, 21 Mav 2002 08:14:48 0530
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The '.ar.Qie...-gn - memorial was a community affair indeed; And we were thrilled to see
so many on cur E-list there.
Being the marriage season, it was great to have someof you take time cut
on the way to your other evening engagements.
drop in
Aditya Bandhopadhyay spoke about the probeins faced by positive people as well as
social workers workinG in the H1V/A1DS programme. We wore encouraged by stroncr
support ®t shot--, notice zrc-m groups like The Pacliputra round table, who rang us up
or r.hp r.orr":rg of "ho 19rh and offered to send over 200 packs of refreshments.
Thanks Khurshid and Rohit.
The South Indian Cultural -Association, Mobile Theatre and the All India Anglo
Indian Association pm up cultural items, while the group Integration from Calcutta
presented a theme piece called from bondage to bonding.
Mr Joseph Galstaun, the nominated Anglo-Indian MLA from Jharkhand was present along
We were thrilled to see, several members of this E-group: among whom were
Au g u s t i n e . An ami k a from jamshedpur), Fr Paul, Sr Jyosita, Avhinav (who has been
a nil ar of st rejig tn and the ore who gave willingly of her nsw car for
The candle lighting ceremony and walk was impressive as usual, this time the
large number of street children from Bal Sakha/Childline made several Hindi
oarers write "Children carried candles to commemorate the memory of AIDS victims”
Thanks must go out to P.wicuja, Aditya, Lok, Augustine, Rachna, Jean, Sanat,
Glen,Christine, Birendra,Margaret Martin for enabling us to meet the expenses of the
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