By Dr. S.N. Mothi, Chairman and Founder Trustee, Asha Kirana Charitable Trust Hospital & Research Centre, Mysuru Today (December 1) is World AIDS Day and it is a globally commemorated healthcare event observed every year since 1988. On this day, various awareness campaigns and activities that promote the disease awareness are conducted by several organisations…
AIDS: Mysuru district stands 16 in the State with 521 infected persons in 2020-21
December 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Despite launching awareness drives on AIDS and its consequences among the public, Mysuru district stands in the 16th position in the number of infections, said District AIDS Control Officer Dr. Mohammed Shiraj Ahmed to SOM. The theme of World AIDS Day 2021 is ‘End inequalities. End AIDS.’ With a special focus on reaching people…
World AIDS Day observed
December 1, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Co-operation of public is vital for those who have contracted AIDS to avail timely treatment and the public should not look at them in a different way, opined Senior Civil Judge and District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Member-Secretary Devaraj Bhoote. He was speaking after inaugurating World AIDS Day, organised by the District Administration, Zilla…
40 years of progress: Time to end HIV epidemic
June 5, 2021Reflect, Re-commit, Re-energise, Re-engage Today, June 5, 2021 happens to be the 40th year of the first diagnosed HIV case in entire world. On this day, we want the world to look back into the epidemic, to reflect, re-commit, re-energise and re-engage, says Dr. S.N. Mothi, Chairman & Founder Trustee, Asha Kirana Charitable Trust Hospital,…
Two-day conference on HIV/AIDS begins
February 8, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: ‘HIVe Mysuru-2020, a two-day conference on HIV/AIDS update, began at Hotel Rio Meridian on New Sayyaji Rao Road in city this morning. The conference is hosted by the city-based Asha Kirana Hospital and co-ordinated by Karnataka AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) and AIDS Society of India (ASI).This is the seventh annual conference aimed at discussing…
An interview with Dr. Jyoti Dhar, HIV Physician: “I don’t see any difference between Diabetes and AIDS”
March 26, 2018By Sujata Rajpal Dr. Jyoti Dhar, an HIV Physician and GUM (Genitourinary Medicine) Consultant for over 24 years at Leicester, UK, was in Mysuru recently to deliver Dr. Suniti Solomon Lecture on AIDS in Women at HIVeMysore – ART Update 2018, an international conference on HIV organised by Asha Kirana Hospital. Dr. Dhar is a…
My HIV status revealed to me the true meaning of life
December 11, 2017To mark the 20th anniversary of Asha Kirana Charitable Trust which has been providing counselling services, care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS since 1997, here we publish a special write-up by Sujata Rajpal on one of the AIDS patients of Asha Kirana Charitable Hospital in Mysuru, to show how people can lead a…
Ending AIDS Epidemic: Asha Kirana shows the way…
December 8, 2017Asha Kirana Hospital, Mysuru, is commemorating its 20 years of service in the field of HIV/AIDS by holding a programme on Dec. 10 at 10.30 am at Shubhodhini Convention Centre in city. Dr. R. Balasubramaniam of SVYM, Dr. R.S. Gupta and Dr. K.S. Sachdeva from NACO and Dr. I.S. Gilada, President of AIDS Society of…
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