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Africa eyes India’s model to fight AIDS

July 31, 2012
A highly successful AIDS prevention programme launched in India by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has evoked great interest in Africa where over two thirds of people with the deadly disease live. "There is so much demand …
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International AIDS Conference 2012: International sex workers unite in Kolkata

July 31, 2012
The Alternate International AIDS Conference is being held from 21-27 July. An odd motley crowd - sex workers, drug dealers, transvestites along with doctors and social workers - has gathered in Kolkata. They are here to observe …
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International AIDS Conference 2012: What do the sex workers want?

July 27, 2012
A demand for basic human rights and safe sex practices marked the ongoing global Sex Workers Freedom Festival in Kolkata, where around 550 representatives from 41 nations are taking part. The July 22-27 festival is being jointly …
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International AIDS Conference 2012: Red umbrellas mark sex workers’ rallies in Kolkata and Washington

July 25, 2012
500 sex workers from across 42 countries participated in a ‘freedom rally’ which kicked off from Sonagachi, the country’s and perhaps Asia’s biggest red-light district. Each of them held up a red umbrella . The …
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International AIDS Conference 2012: Cure AIDS with love says Elton John

July 25, 2012
Singer Elton John believes AIDS can be cured with love as that is what drives research into the potentially fatal disease. "Maybe you think I am naive. Maybe you think I am off my rocker. Here I am telling an audience of 7,000 …
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International AIDS Conference 2012: US has made effort to get rid of HIV says Hillary Clinton

July 25, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has touted the US efforts to fight AIDS. She made these claims at the International AIDS conference 2102  amid charges that Washington is lagging behind on combating the pandemic. According …
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Sex workers to convene in Kolkata for International AIDS conference

July 21, 2012
With the United States imposing travel restrictions on overseas sex workers from attending the International AIDS Conference in Washington from Sunday, a week-long meet is being held here to enable them to be part of the event …
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Lack of funding makes Mumbai more HIV vulnerable, forces former sex workers to take up old trade

July 10, 2012
Mumbai’s most vulnerable pockets are under an HIV threat. There’s a scarcity of condoms, syringes and medicines. Twenty-one NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and 13 community-based organizations (CBOs) that handle a total …
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Indian sex workers to be a part of the International AIDS Conference in the US

July 6, 2012
Sex workers from various parts of the country will gather in Kolkata to connect through video conferencing to the International AIDS Conference in the US this July, a representative of the sex workers community said . The …
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