Top Law News Conference on freedom of sex workers July 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Saturday Kolkata will host a conference on freedom of sex workers. 550 sex workers representatives from about 44 countries will participate in the event. The two-day event, to be held on July 21 and 22, will run parallel to the XIX International AIDS Conference being organized in Washington DC from Sunday. The sex workers […] Read more » AIDS Conference on freedom of sex workers conference on sex workers freedom of sex workers HIV Kolkata sex sex workers US government Washington DC
Top Law News HIV+ convict’s jail term reduced by court July 19, 2012 / July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court reduced two-year jail term awarded to a HIV + man for stealing a railway property to six months on compassionate grounds. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain reduced the convict’s jail term, showing leniency to him because he being a HIV+ but rejecting his appeal against a magisterial court’s July 2011 judgment, which had […] Read more » compassionate ground for HIV+ Delhi court HIV HIV positive HIV+ convicts HIV+ man release of HIV+ on compassionate ground Section 3 of the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession) Act
Top Law News Don’t neglect people with HIV, PM tells ministries July 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said ministries should make various schemes more accessible to people with HIV/AIDS, from employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme to more access to women and children to Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Addressing the national convention of zila parishad chairpersons and mayors on HIV and AIDS, the […] Read more » HIV ICDS Integrated Child Development Services neglect PM Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Top Law News Advanced HIV treatment is free for all, apex court told December 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it will provide free the second line of treatment to all the HIV patients even if their initial treatment was done in private hospitals. The National AIDS Control Organisation’s (NACO) decision is a significant departure from its earlier stand that the second line treatment at its expense […] Read more » free HIV treatment