Sustainable Economic Development

Case of Gender Discrimination, HIV/AIDS Runs Fist   Worldwide, rates of sexually transmitted infections among young people are soaring: one-third of the 340 million new STIs each year occur in people under 25 years of age. Each year, more than one in every 20 adolescents contracts a curable STI. More than half of all new HIV infections occur in people between the ages of 15 to 24 years. The sexual health needs for adolescent girls are generally overlooked, Stigma and vulnerability affects particular groups of men as well as women. Although men generally have more access to information on sexual issues than women, and ... Read Full Story

HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rates in Asia   The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to spread around the world. As per the estimates of United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 39.5 million people were living with HIV in 2006. In this year 4.3 million were newly infected, it has turned a serious global epidemic, virtually all of them in poor or developing countries. The disease has been most devastating in Africa. In some African region over 20% of the population is infected. The epidemic is growing most rapidly among some individual localities, communities, ethnic groups, tribal groups or subpopulations and poor populations. While the spread of ... Read Full Story

AIDS: Economic And Developmental Impact   The epidemics in many countries of South Asia are now entering a new phase. One of the first populations to be affected by HIV in South Asia were injecting drug users. In areas where drug injection has been long established, such as Manipur in north-eastern India, HIV prevalence rates of over 40 percent have been recorded for several years. Several hundred thousand people infected during the explosive start of epidemics are becoming ill and are undergoing treatment. The treatment of infections becomes a great burden for the country concerned, because HIV/AIDS requires long-term and effective medical care, periodical ... Read Full Story

Font size: morungexpress Nagaland’s Health & Family Welfare minister Kuzholezo Neinu addressing the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Seen in the picture are Oscar Fernandes MP,  Charles Gilks, UNAIDS Country Manager, and MPs from Maharastra and Orissa.   Dimapur, August 12 (MExN): The 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) is underway at the Bali International Convention Centre at Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia from 9th-13th August 2009. The delegates from Nagaland is led by  Kuzholuzo Neinu, Minister for Health & Family Welfare and includes Dr Neiphi Kire Project Director NSACS, Dr. Bernice Dzuvichu Joint Director ... Read Full Story

Newspapers and other media often paint a dark picture of contemporary education. Studies that compare the knowledge of mathematics of children in different countries add little to the discussion, since many question if teaching algebra to seven-year-old kids makes any sense at all. The modern school curriculum contains a wide range of subjects and attempts to develop children's talents in all directions. From music to History, from drawing to sports, everything is there to fascinate and entertain the minds of the young. Since the variety of subjects that are addressed in today's classrooms is mind-boggling, how does one explain that many youths experience boredom ... Read Full Story