Hiv Children

Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UNICEF said on Wednesday. Nearly 320,000 children and adolescents were infected with HIV and 110,000 children died of AIDS last year.

"This misconception of HIV being spread by touching, needs to go," wrote Mouni Roy

Forty-Five HIV positive children abandoned by their families have found a home in the "Shelter Trust" run by Solomon Raj, popularly referred to as "Appa" (father) by them.

Health authorities here are scrambling to control an HIV outbreak in the country's south after the virus was diagnosed in about 700 people, most of them children, in recent weeks.

The Pakistan government has sought the help of the World Health organisation (WHO) to probe the recent outbreak of HIV in the country's Sindh province, that has till now affected over 600 people, mostly children, according to a media report.

Parents nervously watch as their children wait to be tested for HIV in a village in southern Pakistan, where hundreds of people have been allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe.

At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with the HIV virus in Pakistan by a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials said Friday.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday acquitted a security guard of a children's home of the charge of repeatedly raping a seven-year-old HIV positive orphan, observing that the situation remained a "classic, and unsolved locked room mystery".

"The idea behind Faith is to provide medical and emotional help to children with HIV. When people come to know about their illness, they are treated like untouchables. There are many such sad stories and I don't know how to tell them," says Smriti, who runs the NGO Faith in Jaipur to help HIV-positive children.

The Supreme Court today asked the state governments to issue a notification to include children affected with HIV in disadvantaged group for imparting free, compulsory education under the 2009 law.

Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...

A city-based readymade garment showroom on Ghod Dod Road in Gujarat's Surat city on Friday decided to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 66th birthday in a unique way by gifting nearly 200 children with disabilities and 55 HIV positive children branded clothes of their choice.

Malawi police have arrested an HIV-infected man who was paid to have sex with more than 100 adolescent girls as part of a traditional ritual marking their passage to womanhood, officials said.

Denise Richards has submitted papers in a court which claim that Charlie Sheen forced them out of a home he owns; has stopped paying to the trust fund for their children and abused his youngest daughter. Denise overheard a conversation between Mr Sheen and Lola, during which he said "I'm going to kill you"

Children will be more likely to survive tuberculosis (TB), the world's most deadly infectious disease, once new strawberry- and raspberry-flavoured medicines are available early next year, experts said on today.

Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UNICEF said on Wednesday. Nearly 320,000 children and adolescents were infected with HIV and 110,000 children died of AIDS last year.

"This misconception of HIV being spread by touching, needs to go," wrote Mouni Roy

Forty-Five HIV positive children abandoned by their families have found a home in the "Shelter Trust" run by Solomon Raj, popularly referred to as "Appa" (father) by them.

Health authorities here are scrambling to control an HIV outbreak in the country's south after the virus was diagnosed in about 700 people, most of them children, in recent weeks.

The Pakistan government has sought the help of the World Health organisation (WHO) to probe the recent outbreak of HIV in the country's Sindh province, that has till now affected over 600 people, mostly children, according to a media report.

Parents nervously watch as their children wait to be tested for HIV in a village in southern Pakistan, where hundreds of people have been allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe.

At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with the HIV virus in Pakistan by a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials said Friday.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday acquitted a security guard of a children's home of the charge of repeatedly raping a seven-year-old HIV positive orphan, observing that the situation remained a "classic, and unsolved locked room mystery".

"The idea behind Faith is to provide medical and emotional help to children with HIV. When people come to know about their illness, they are treated like untouchables. There are many such sad stories and I don't know how to tell them," says Smriti, who runs the NGO Faith in Jaipur to help HIV-positive children.

The Supreme Court today asked the state governments to issue a notification to include children affected with HIV in disadvantaged group for imparting free, compulsory education under the 2009 law.

Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...

A city-based readymade garment showroom on Ghod Dod Road in Gujarat's Surat city on Friday decided to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 66th birthday in a unique way by gifting nearly 200 children with disabilities and 55 HIV positive children branded clothes of their choice.

Malawi police have arrested an HIV-infected man who was paid to have sex with more than 100 adolescent girls as part of a traditional ritual marking their passage to womanhood, officials said.

Denise Richards has submitted papers in a court which claim that Charlie Sheen forced them out of a home he owns; has stopped paying to the trust fund for their children and abused his youngest daughter. Denise overheard a conversation between Mr Sheen and Lola, during which he said "I'm going to kill you"

Children will be more likely to survive tuberculosis (TB), the world's most deadly infectious disease, once new strawberry- and raspberry-flavoured medicines are available early next year, experts said on today.