Are the new smart phones and their unusual apps becoming health hazards? And are the ‘invisible’ gay communities in some homophobia endemic countries at risk? Health researchers in England said that the growing use of casual sex apps in European countries where discrimination against homosexuality is rife, threatens to fuel a rising number of HIV […]
It’s Mothers’ Day today. And what does a poor, sick mother in the boondocks of Bihar, desperately trying to ensure that her HIV positive orphaned child gets his essential daily dose of life-saving meds get? Insensitivity, buck-passing and indolence by the government medical fraternity and the Bihar State AIDS Control Society! On Thursday May 7, […]
ALERT! Child in dire straits while doctors pass the buck! CHAPRA, BIHAR: When 25 year old Uma Devi (name changed) went to get ART medicines for her child she was told that the ARV 9anti-retroviral) medications are out of stock. This is despite the state government’s assurance to the High Court that adequate stocks of […]
