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OAKLAND Calif Major medical breakthroughs over the past year in the treatment of HIVAIDS are setting off some surprising alarm bells While praised for their lifesaving potential they are causing a change in the dynamics of HIVAIDS care they are causing a change in the dynamics of HIV/AIDS care – a shift
that may squeeze out social services needed to support patients while
they’re in treatment.
20 January 2012 | New American Media
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The Delhi government plans to grant pensions to HIV patients, registered for treatment at (ART) centres. Announcing the new policy on World AIDS Day, Delhi Health minister said children who lost their parents to HIV but are not infected by the virus will also be covered under the scheme.
01 December 2011 | Indian Express
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Tears rolled down the cheeks of some adults as HIV positive children narrated the suffering they are going through as a result of what they called "theft of funds meant for treatment of people living with AIDS.
01 December 2011 | AllAfrica
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An estimated 100,000 people are living with Aids and HIV in Britain, many of them young people who face prejudice on a daily basis. But a series of celebrity portraits by Rankin and a powerful new film, Life in My Shoes, are challenging that stigma.
19 November 2011 | The Guardian
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Results from a recent study suggest that adolescents with HIV who are treated at pediatric clinics are less likely to discontinue antiretroviral therapy than adolescents treated at adult clinics.
17 November 2011 | The AIDS Beacon
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I am Innocent Bitandema, a 41-year-old peasant. I am married to Gloria Ahimbisibwe, a housewife aged 35 with four children. In 2004, I started coughing and I had on and off fever. When the cough became profuse, I went to the health centre where I was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). go →
16 November 2011 | Key Correspondents
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In an upper middle class neighbourhood in Jaipur, 19 children, all HIV
positive, have found a home of their own. They're now in danger of
losing it. An eviction notice, based on complaints by neighbours, has
been served by their landlord.
10 November 2011 | NDTV
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The spread of HIV/AIDS has led to an increase in child-headed households in Africa, particularly in Mozambique. An estimated 24 thousand homes in the country are made up entirely of children, according to UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund.
20 October 2011 | UN Radio
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Some 51 percent of the HIV/AIDS- infected households in Cambodia are living in hunger, said a new UN survey released here on Thursday, calling for more attention to the need for HIV-sensitive social protection mechanisms.
25 August 2011 | Xinhuanet.com
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How objective is the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM)? Why is the pyschiatric profesison so dependent on the pharmaceutical industry for status? Why is the behaviour of American children increasingly the trigger to medicate them?
28 June 2011 | New York Review of Books
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