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Why You Should Support End AIDS India Campaign-End AIDS India

End AIDS India is a national campaign and a public movement to end HIV and AIDS in India. It is led by Alliance India (India HIV/AIDS Alliance), a trusted non-profit organisation with the commitment and faith of more than 50,000 individuals and institutions who have financially supported the campaign and continue to believe in the campaign goal to create zero impact: zero new case, zero death due to HIV and zero incidence of discrimination.  Change begins with one action, YOU are the change Globally, nations and leaders have a mandate to end HIV as an epidemic by 2030 and put an end to HIV transmission and deaths while improving the quality of life for those living with HIV. India is on track with the milestones set against global HIV targets by UNAIDS. However, with the emergence of a new public health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic poses threat to the progress achieved by the communities vulnerable to HIV. We must combine healthcare services on HIV and COVID-19 to ...

COVID 19 – The Sweet and Bitter Truths

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  With the onslaught of Covid 19 and the subsequent nationwide lockdown, normal life went for a complete toss in the first half of 2020. The emergency protocol along with the ravaging virus brought about immense discontent and dismay in various spheres. Innumerable people lost their jobs, many survived on reduced salaries, businesses nosedived, health issues other than Covid 19 remained unattended, mental health issues spiked up, and many lost their lives to Covid 19 . India being home to the world’s 2nd largest population living with HIV, faced a major jolt as the Covid 19 pandemic threw up grave challenges and threatened the achievements of HIV and TB responses in the country. The already immunocompromised community’s plight turned worse with people having to combat HIV and the easy probability of getting infected by the deadly Covid 19. Stigma and discrimination centering around the lives of HIV survivors looms large; and regular medication being indispensable, the national lock...

Donate HIV & AIDS in Children, Save the Children-End AIDS India

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The Best HIV and AIDS Nonprofits of 2019. We want to learn from history and create a better future for the next generation. Justice for all is our motto that underpins all the HIV Response Programme we implement across the country. We believe justice cannot wait. Please help us deliver care and support services to the most marginalised and stigmatised sections of the society. The situation of HIV AIDS in India is serious with the spread no longer confined to high risk groups alone. Donate HIV-End AIDS India Our words are as important as our actions. Let's correct our tendency to use derogatory language towards certain groups in our society. Let's be mindful of how we describe or speak about a section of our community. Spread love, not hatred. Human #respect and #dignity is our birthright. People living with HIV not only fight against HIV but also fight #stigma and #discrimination. Their fight is our fight. Your support is needed to end HIV, to end discrimination....

Why ZERO Discrimination is Crucial To Ending AIDS in India?

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“Within a year into my marriage, my husband fell ill and quickly became bedridden. He was diagnosed with HIV and AIDS . My health was normal at that time but in the routine spouse test, I too tested HIV positive. I didn’t know much about HIV except that it is a deadly disease. I was young and terrified. Instead of supporting me, my husband and his family began abusing me. They blamed me for infecting my husband. They started questioning my character. Eventually, they literally kicked me out of the house and I had no choice but to return to my parents”, says Dimple who was rejected by her in-laws for no fault of hers. Another young mother says, “I was neglected and denied of proper care by healthcare workers during the birth of my second child because of my HIV status. It is the deepest pain that I live with that I couldn’t protect my child from getting infected with HIV.” Discrimination of any form and in any place is a violation of human rights and a barrier to achieving a ...

The Ban Karo Syndrome-End AIDS India

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Lately, India is caught up in reacting with ‘ban Karo’ to anything and everything that remotely hurts our pride or disrupts our viewpoints. Ban on certain websites, ban on meat, ban on films, ban this ban that the list goes on. As a person working in the health sector to empower people living with HIV, I would like to briefly talk about the ban on condom TV ads from airing from 10 pm to 6 am. This invariably means limited exposure and reach for the ads and especially during prime time. The condom ads were considered indecent for the viewing of children. On the surface it seems a well-meaning prohibition, however, if we look at the ban in context of few other facts about India such as its bloating population and a worrisome number of annual abortions – it is evident how little India knows or practices safe-sex. According to an article written in 2016 in India Spend 10 million women secretly undergo abortion every year in India, 80% of them at home. ...