Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society union demands job security

Edit The Times of India 19 Sep 2016
As a mark of protest, the employees will not conduct HIV testing for TB patients, pregnant women, high risk groups (HRGs), and surgical patients ... Around 10,000 people are screened for HIV daily in the state....

Award for professor

Edit The Hindu 19 Sep 2016
Balagurunathan, Professor of Microbiology, Periyar University, has been conferred with the lifetime achievement award for his contribution in the discovery of anti-TB antibiotics ... His team of research scholars are working for the discovery of anti-TB and anti-HIV compounds from marine derived actinobacteria....

Madurai today for Sep 19 Monday

Edit The Hindu 19 Sep 2016
Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Women entrepreneurship development programme, Senthamarai College of Arts and Science, 10 a.m ... Department of History, ICSSR-sponsored national-level workshop; A ... Vaigai College of Engineering ... Justin College of Education, 10 a.m ... Giants Group of Madurai Tirunagar . Giants Week celebration; planting of saplings, Cheshire Homes of India, Thoppur, 7.30 a.m.; Helping HIV affected children, St....

Seven important triggers that changed your market while you were sleeping

Edit The Times of India 19 Sep 2016
Markets around the globe are on the tenterhooks ahead of the US Fed's rate-setting meeting and expect Dalal Street to be no different ... Back home, expect the much-awaited IPO of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance to create all the buzz on Dalal Street, while market regulator Sebi is said to be considering a proposal to allow foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to hold multiple demat accounts ... Grand highway in the offing....

Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 12 — Pillar of Salt

Edit The Guardian 19 Sep 2016
Finally, a really great episode! The show decided to stop being oblique about its intentions and murky about its existential philosophy and offered up a solid hour where themes of motherhood, family, imprisonment and faith reverberated throughout disparate storylines ... For Nick that means taking the best interests of the colony into his own hands, even if that isn’t what Alejandro, the founder and leader, wants....

The Breakdown: Eisenberg's Five Thoughts vs. Cleveland Browns (Baltimore Ravens)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Sep 2016
'I saw a lot of composure,' receiver Mike Wallace said ... Biggest Play Of Game May Have Been On Taunting Penalty. In a game of big plays, the biggest, quite possibly, was a taunting penalty on Cleveland receiver Terrelle Pryor Sr ... It certainly didn't appear to reach the bar of what used to be called taunting, 'but they're calling that stuff much tighter now so you never know,' Webb said....

The two Weeds dispensaries have closed, but there are plenty of other shops to buy ...

Edit Canada Dot Com 19 Sep 2016
Two of Ottawa's most popular pot shops have closed after Canada Post intercepted shipments of marijuana mailed to them from B.C. Don Briere, the president of the B.C.-based Weeds Glass & Gifts chain, says he hopes his dispensaries on Bank Street and Montreal Road will reopen if he can figure out a way to ship the dried weed, cannabis-laced brownies, candy, concentrates and other merchandise across the country....

Pulse and the Power of Queer Tears

Edit Slate 19 Sep 2016
Even in response to an unmitigated grief chasm like the HIV epidemic, queer people have had a knack for building glittering Everests of something else in response ... Since, let’s say, the advent of protease inhibitors in 1996 (which made a long life with HIV possible) and the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998 (which spurred a still incomplete push for LGBT hate crimes legislation)—and certainly since Lawrence v ... That’s a lot of maybes....

Dance teacher arrested for exposing student to HIV, police say

Edit Springfield News-Sun 18 Sep 2016
A Memphis dance coach was arrested for exposing one of his students to HIV, police said ... a minor and criminal exposure to HIV, among other counts....

IAS and WHO – New survey on research priorities for children and adolescents (IAS - International AIDS Society)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Sep 2016
The International AIDS Society's Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research (CIPHER) and the World Health Organization are coordinating a shared global research agenda on HIV services for children and adolescents ... Identifying and prioritizing the most urgent questions in paediatric HIV is essential for generating the evidence needed to inform policy....

Memphis man charged with exposing juvenile to HIV

Edit Commercial Appeal 18 Sep 2016
John Conner III, 27, was charged with solicitation of a minor by electronic means, criminal exposure to HIV and statutory rape by an authority figure....

‘Rent’ at Lexington Opera House shows why this classic work remains vibrant

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 18 Sep 2016
Its tackling of issues like HIV/AIDS and drug addiction via a group of struggling yet idealistic NYC artists diverse in race, gender and sexual orientation was both tragic and inspiring ... While the impact of HIV/AIDS may not be as prevalent today, dating “Rent” to an extent, its themes of individuality, creativity and finding fulfillment have an evergreen quality....

Indian-origin South African is head of global blood service

Edit The Times of India 18 Sep 2016
Although Reddy has been credited with transforming the safety of blood donation and transfer in South Africa with its very high incidence of HIV/AIDS, he has insisted that this was a team effort by the staff of SANBS ... In 2004, there was a huge outcry when it emerged that blood donated by the majority Black community in South Africa was being discarded due to the risk associated with the high incidence of HIV/AIDS in that community....
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