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"Bob Dog" |
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26 Jul 2003 11:32:55 AM |
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OT: We can only hope it's true |
I think the subject says it all.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jul/26aids.htm
Bob Dog
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India has developed HIV vaccine: Sushma Swaraj
July 26, 2003 19:58 IST
Union Health Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday announced that
a HIV vaccine has been prepared in the country and its clinical
trials were on.
Attending a convention of Parliamentary Forum on HIV/AIDS in
Delhi, she hoped that India would be the first country to
develop a cure for the deadly disease.
Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani emphasised the
need for a four-pronged strategy -- prevention, treatment,
education and awareness creation and research -- to counter
the disease.
Advani pointed out that HIV/AIDS has devastated families,
destabilised communities and shattered national economies with
little hope of recovery for decades to come.
"The alarm bell is ringing. The bell is not for waking us up
for we in India have already woken up to the challenge of
HIV/AIDS," he said, adding the country has been 'forewarned
by statistics'.
"It is not enough to spread the message about safe sex. It
should a part of a larger message, about a responsible and
fair lifestyle," Advani said pointing out that HIV/AIDS was
'essentially a lifestyle disease'.
He said education and awareness creation have to take into
account the entire medical, sociological, cultural and economic
aspects of the problem.
Advocating more openness to discussing HIV/AIDS and the ways to
prevent, control and treat it, Advani said the society needed
to empower women with the knowledge of the disease and the
right to use it for their own protection.
He deplored attachment of stigma, sometimes bordering on
ex-communication, with HIV/AIDS affliction forcing some of them
to commit suicide.
This shows the amount of work that is needed at various levels
to enable HIV/AIDS patients to live their life with dignity,
Advani said.
Hoping that war on HIV/AIDS would become more broad-based with
Parliamentarians joining in an organised manner, he asked MLAs
and elected representatives at district and panchayat levels
also to get involved in the campaign.
With regard to research, the deputy prime minister said it has
to be a global effort with the closest possible cooperation
among nations.
Noting that AIDS treatment was 'unaffordable' even to middle
class families, Advani said the governments and philanthropic
organisation.
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| User: "Xaonon" |
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| Title: Re: OT: We can only hope it's true |
26 Jul 2003 10:45:29 PM |
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Ned i bach <4fa573de.0307260832.7d9b75fa@posting.google.com>, Bob Dog
<bg12345@apexmail.com> teithant i thiw hin:
I think the subject says it all.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jul/26aids.htm
Bob Dog
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India has developed HIV vaccine: Sushma Swaraj
That would be great. Something about the last paragraph is broken, though:
Noting that AIDS treatment was 'unaffordable' even to middle
class families, Advani said the governments and philanthropic
organisation.
....huh? Did their text editor run out of memory and force them to stop
right in the middle of the sentence, or what?
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