The Centre would soon bring in the long-pending law that would prevent discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients. The Health and Family Welfare Ministry will receive the draft law from the Law Ministry in next 10 days, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here on Thursday.
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Law soon to prevent discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients
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Your workout gear matters
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When you are sweating it out at the gym, jogging real hard on your daily route to fitness, or doing an aerobics routine at the dance studio, what you are wearing matters.
Half of HIV patients in Asia live in India
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India houses half of Asia's HIV patients and is way ahead of China in disease burden. It also finds a place in the list of 22 countries prioritised for preventing mother to child transmission infection, according to the latest UNAIDS report, drafted jointly with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
GRH needs more facilities, says MLA
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R. Annadurai, MLA, Communist Party of India (Marxist), has urged Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to provide additional infrastructure at the Government Rajaji hospital to cater to requirements of hundreds of patients coming to the hospital for treatment.
Trauma care facility to get ‘life' soon
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The new trauma care building of the Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) here, lying unused even many months after its formal inauguration, is finally set to function soon.
Heart to heart
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There's a lot of awareness about heart disease and its increasing incidence among young adults. Instead of ignoring the risk factors, Geeta Padmanabhan suggests simple ways to help add years to life
AIIMS director calls for strengthening rural healthcare
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The rural health sector in India is in a very bad shape and it is high time to effectively address the healthcare needs of rural India, said Prof Ramesh Chandra Deka, Director of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.