Tag: World Aids Day

Bhubaneswar: Like every year hundreds of people gathered early in the morning today at OSAP 7th battalion ground in Bhubaneswar to run for a common cause of creating awareness about HIV AIDS among common people at OTV Mini Marathon organised on the occasion of World AIDS Day. Many well known personalities of Odisha from different […]

Bhubaneswar: Thousands of enthusiastic people from different sections of the society irrespective of age and gender ran for the  OTV Mini Marathon – Run towards life organised by the Odisha Television Ltd (OTV) today here on occasion of the World AIDS Day. Students, youth, sportsperson, cine stars and politicians reached the KIIT Stadium at an […]

New Delhi: HIV has taught mankind how to improve its health systems and this knowledge can be used to counter other diseases, professor of medicine at AIIMS, Naveet Wig, has said. Speaking at an interactive session here yesterday, on the eve of the World Aids Day, Wig said: “There is a need to integrate all […]

Bhubaneswar: Braving the early morning chill, thousands of people including youths turned up for the OTV Mini-marathon organized on the occasion of World AIDS Day today. It was a rare spectacle as the residents of the smart city of Bhubaneswar came together to extend support to the novel initiative of OTV to spread awareness about […]

Bhubaneswar: With HIV/AIDS still posing a severe threat, the only way to fight is creating awareness. Realising the importance of a united fight, OTV is all set to host its annual mini-marathon tomorrow to raise awareness on HIV AIDS. Commanding officer of 120 Infantry Battalion, Lt.Colonel JS Bhadoria will flag off the 10th edition of […]

Bhubaneswar: On the occasion of Worlds AIDS Day, the disconcerting fact is Odisha has detected new 1, 962 HIV positive cases in the general population till the end of October this year. Moreover, 515 new HIV+ were detected in pregnant mothers during the period January – October 2019, and 483 of the HIV+ have been […]

Bhubaneswar: Braving the early morning chill, thousands of people from the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack and other parts of the State participated in OTV Mini Marathon, organised on the occasion of World AIDS Day today. The marathon is an initiative by OTV, the leading media house in Odisha, to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS […]

United Nations: On World AIDS Day on Tuesday, a latest report from the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has warned that the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic could result in 123,000 to 293,000 new HIV cases and 69,000 to 148,000 additional AIDS-related deaths in the next two years. In the report titled “Prevailing against pandemics by […]