"Bel-Air Hospital near the resort town of Panchgani in India's Western Ghat mountains was originally built [in 1912] to care for people with tuberculosis. ... Today, 95 years later, the bucolic setting of Bel-Air is still seen as healing — this time for patients with HIV, many of whom also have TB."
Read more about the successful work of Father Tomy Karyilakulam, a Catholic priest, and his colleagues at: http://www.npr.org/t...toryId=11707282
and at
http://www.npr.org/t...toryId=11704607
and at
http://www.belairpanchgani.org/
India has also recently revised its AIDS estimate:
http://www.npr.org/t...toryId=11778587
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Bel-air Hospital Near Panchgani Treats Aids Patients
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, Jul 07 2007 06:36 AM
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Posted 07 July 2007 - 06:36 AM
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
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Posted 07 July 2007 - 06:42 AM
India still has stigma attached to HIV disease. Denial, fear...
Educating the public on a massive scale needs to be done.
Educating the public on a massive scale needs to be done.
Cricket Anyone!
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Posted 07 July 2007 - 06:46 AM
noflylist, on Jul 6 2007, 06:12 PM, said:
India still has stigma attached to HIV disease. Denial, fear...
Educating the public on a massive scale needs to be done.
Educating the public on a massive scale needs to be done.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
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Posted 07 July 2007 - 10:06 AM
Education of the public should begin with the hundreds of thousdands of truck drivers who are at least 80% responsible for the rising spread of AIDS here. It seems though, after watching a documentary on the subject a few weeks back, that they see it as their right to pick up the women who hang around at the truck stops for sex - despite the fact that they then in turn bring the disease back to their wives or whomever they have relationships with on home turf. The documentary finished by saying that within ten years India will be the biggest carrier of AIDS in the entire world. Frightening, or inevitable? ....perhaps a great deal of both!
