31.07.2006 - Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies

Report on the HIV/AIDS pandemic within the country ("Public Health and International Security") [ID 17660]

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29.05.2006 - Source: ReliefWeb

Report on activities in the region, focusing on the reactions on the tsunami 2004, the earthquake and the development of a HIV/AIDS program; achievements, constraints and lessons learnt ("India: Appeal No. 05AA047 Annual Report") [ID 15820]

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17.05.2006 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Network

Human trafficking in the northeast fuelling HIV/AIDS - report ("Human trafficking in the northeast fuelling HIV/AIDS - report") [ID 15731]

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30.03.2006 - Source: BBC News

HIV infection rates decrease by a third in worst hit regions; more than 5 million people living with HIV in India, 75 percent of them in the southern states; male use of female sex workers is a main reason for spread of HIV in these areas ("HIV-Infektionsraten sinken in meistbetroffenen Regionen um ein Drittel; mehr als 5 Millionen Personen in Indien HIV-infiziert, 75 Prozent davon in den südlichen Staaten; männliche Inanspruchnahme weiblicher Sexarbeiterinnen als Hauptursache für die Verbreitung von HIV in diesen Gebieten") [#47972],  [ID 8152]

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04.03.2006 - Source: BBC News

Bombay: Suspension of nearly 350 doctors, who went on strike to demand better salaries and greater security for doctors inside the hospitals ("Indian doctors sacked over strike") [#45778],  [ID 8163]

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25.05.2005 - Source: Amnesty International

HIV/Aids ("Annual Report 2005") [#32264],  [ID 8153]

"[...]In October a spokesperson from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria stated that AIDS/HIV infection rates were rising and that India possibly had the world’s largest number of people living with HIV. [...]"

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13.01.2005 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Annual report on human rights situation in 2004 ("World report 2005") [#28211],  [ID 8154]

"[...]India faces a burgeoning HIV/AIDS problem, as people with HIV and their families face government and social discrimination. [...]

Rights of Those Living with HIV/AIDS
The government estimates that 5.1 million people in India are living with HIV/AIDS, though many experts suggest the number is much higher. People with AIDS, as well as those traditionally at highest risk—sex workers, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men—face widespread stigmatization and discrimination. People with AIDS are denied employment and access to education and healthcare. Those at high risk face police harassment and other state-sponsored abuse that undermines HIV prevention and AIDS care services for them. Married women are also at risk because they are frequently unable to demand condom use of their husbands, who may have extramarital sexual partners.
At least hundreds of thousands of children are living with HIV/AIDS. Many more are otherwise seriously affected by India’s burgeoning epidemic—when they are forced to withdraw from school to care for sick parents, are forced to work to replace their parents’ income, or are orphaned (losing one or both parents to AIDS). Children affected by HIV/AIDS are being discriminated against in education and health services, denied care by orphanages, and pushed onto the streets and into the worst forms of child labor. Gender discrimination makes girls more vulnerable to HIV transmission and makes it more difficult for them to get care. Many children, especially the most vulnerable as well as the professionals who care for them, are not getting the information about HIV they need to protect themselves or to combat discrimination. [...]"

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08.11.2004 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Issues of particular concern, highlighted (discrimination against marginalized groups, impunity of security forces, misuse of counter-terrorism laws, failure to protect the rights of children) ("EU: Engage India on Human Rights") [#26851],  [ID 8156]

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10.2004 - Source: UK Home Office

HIV / Aids ("Country Report - October 2004") [#28325],  [ID 8155]

"[...]5.70 BBC news reported on 30 November 2003 that, “The Indian Government is to provide low-priced drugs for treating HIV/Aids, it was announced in Delhi.” More than $40 million would be allocated from April 2004 to provide drugs in government run hospitals. The drugs will come from three big pharmaceutical companies in India. It was also announced that measures were planned to protect HIV sufferers in other ways, such as legislation to prevent discrimination against those with the disease. New laws were proposed to make it a criminal offence for situations such as doctors refusing to treat patients and children not being admitted to schools. [32ci]

5.71 As reflected in the report of a World Bank Study released in 2004 on HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention in India, India is burdened with a larger HIV/AIDS epidemic than any other country in the world. More than 4 million Indian adults are infected with HIV according to official government estimates and the actual number of people with HIV may be as high as 6.5 million. [70](p1) The highest prevalence rates are in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, and Tamil Nadu. [70](Executive Summary xvi) The WHO estimates that HIV/AIDS caused 2 per cent of all deaths and 6 per cent of deaths due to infectious disease in India in 1998 and by 2033 it will account for 17 per cent of all deaths and 40 per cent of deaths due to infectious diseases. [70](Executive Summary xvi-xvii)

5.72 As cited in the same report, "The government of India has made a commitment to design and implement HIV protection and control activities in all states. Phase I of the prevention effort began in 1992, supported by a World Bank credit of $84 million…. Phase II of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) began in 1999, supported by a World Bank credit of $191 million plus Indian government funding of $14 million….Substantially decentralized, the program is being implemented in 35 states and union territories. In 2002 the government finalised and released the National AIDS Control Policy and the National Blood Policy…. The objective of the national policy is to prevent the epidemic from spreading farther and to reduce its impact on infected people and the general population. The policy envisages zero new infections by 2007…." [70](p17-18)

5.73 As indicated in the World Bank report, the Indian antiretroviral drugs are now available from generic manufacturers in India for less than a $1 a day. Access to these drugs remains limited partly because even this modest cost is high for Indians. [70](Executive Summary xiv)

5.74 Information sourced from the website of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation indicates that Avahan ("call to action"), the $200 million grantmaking initiative of the Foundation that supports programmes to prevent the spread of HIV in India, announced $47 million in new grants on 16 March 2004. [44]
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5.76 A BBC report of 16 July 2004 noted that Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the ruling Congress Party vowed that India would do more to fight AIDS in an address to a conference in Bangkok. She said India had developed cheaper drugs, made blood supplies safer and had increased spending on HIV/AIDS but efforts were hampered because the subject was taboo among the people. [32dn] [...]"

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29.07.2004 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Report focused on abuses and discrimination of children affected by HIV/AIDS in health care and society ("Future forsaken: Abuses Against Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in India") [#24353],  [ID 8157]

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25.02.2004 - Source: US Department of State

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003 ("Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2003") [#19765],  [ID 8158]

"[...] Runaway children, especially in larger cities, were at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. They often worked 18-to 20-hour days, frequently in hazardous conditions (see Section 6.c.), and suffered sexual and mental abuse. Discrimination against children with HIV/AIDS was a problem. For example, in March, two children with HIV/AIDS were refused entry into a state school in Kerala. The children eventually were allowed to enter another state-run school in Kollam. [...]
The spread of HIV/AIDS was estimated to have infected approximately 4.58 million persons and there was significant societal discrimination against persons, with HIV/AIDS. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), 70 percent of persons suffering from HIV/AIDS faced discrimination from society. [...]"

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29.10.2003 - Source: BBC News

Indian drugs company Cipla offers to sell anti-Aids drugs to India's four million cases of HIV patients at a fraction of the going rate ("Indian drugs boss hails Aids deal") [#17227],  [ID 8159]

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13.11.2002 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Violence against people affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and numerous cases of police harassment and violence against HIV/AIDS outreach workers documented ("AIDS in India: Money Won’t Solve Crisis/Rising Violence Against AIDS-Affected People") [#9526],  [ID 8160]

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07.2002 - Source: Human Rights Watch

Abuses against HIV/ AIDS outreach workers documented ("Epidemic of abuse: Police harassment of HIV/ aids outreach workers in India") [#7749],  [ID 8161]

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27.07.2001 - Source: Amnesty International

4 human rights defenders arrested allegedly solely for their activity to promote the prevention of AIDS and the right to health ("India : police harassment against the workers of human rights defenders raising AIDS awareness") [#3144],  [ID 8162]

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