Now, data on AIDS just a click away- From Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation !

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Now, data on AIDS just a click away

8 Jun 2008, 0344 hrs IST , TNN

NEW DELHI: Information relating to AIDS, poverty and slums and their

correlation will now be just a simple click of a mouse away.

Housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Kumari Selja on

Tuesday launched a website, " HIV response corner " , aimed at

highlighting the relationship between poverty and the deadly disease

and inform the public about government's policy to counter the

menace.

Apart from basic facts on HIV, the contents of the dedicated HIV

corner in the portal of the ministry of housing and urban poverty

alleviation (HUPA) will include the relationship of poverty and HIV

and impact of the epidemic on the family and community.

The website, first of its kind by any government department, followed

the ministry's pledge to generate community response, a decision

taken by the National Council on AIDS under the chairmanship of the

Prime Minister.

The portal will facilitate networking of people living with HIV and

have an interactive mode where people can put their queries and get

confidential answers to them.

It also has the national data on HIV and AIDS, which will be

periodically updated. It also has a link with the NACO website for

technical information that is already on the NACO site, said P K

Mohanty, joint secretary in the ministry.

The url to the link follows (editor, AIDS INDIA)

http://mhupa.gov.in/AIDS_CENTRE/page2.htm

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