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VIJAYAWADA: A 35-year-old woman was severely injured after an unidentified man allegedly inserted an iron rod into her private parts in Macherla town of Palnadu district. The incident took place on Thursday evening at the victim’s residence. She has been working as a government employee in Macherla town and was alone at her residence when…
Magic Johnson. Image via: Allen Berezovsky/ Getty Images Magic Johnson has endured the hardest part of his life. Decades after that life-altering diagnosis, his HIV diagnosis is still one of the major parts of his story. Speaking recently, Johnson once again opened a window into that journey, reminding people how far both he and public…
HYDERABAD: A 24-year-old transport supervisor working with an IT company has been arrested for allegedly injecting his own HIV-infected blood into a 24-year-old relative after she refused to marry him because of his medical condition.The man has been booked for attempted murder.The incident occurred around 5 pm on March 11 at the woman’s flat in…
HYDERABAD: A 24-year-old transport supervisor working with an IT company here has been arrested for allegedly injecting his own HIV-infected blood into a 24-year-old relative after she refused to marry him because of his medical condition. The man has been booked for attempted murder. The incident occurred around 5 pm on March 11 at the…
NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old Delhi man is critically ill with a rare drug reaction after he took HIV post-exposure medicines bought without prescription, after taking advice from an AI chat platform.The man developed Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare but potentially life-threatening reaction from the drugs he self-administered after a high-risk sexual contact. Post-exposure drugs are taken…
KURNOOL: Four persons, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly injecting a doctor with an HIV-infected injection, police said on Sunday. The victim is reportedly the wife of the woman’s former lover, according to news agency PTI.The accused were identified as B Boya Vasundhara (34), a resident of Kurnool; Konge Jyothi (40), a nurse working…
ETAH: A 10-year-old boy in Etah district brought his mother’s body alone for a post-mortem examination on Thursday, after she died during treatment for tuberculosis and HIV at a district hospital. With no family members by his side and no help forthcoming from neighbours or relatives, the boy sat beside the corpse for hours, waiting,…
BHOPAL: Two months after TOI broke the story of how six children battling thalassaemia contracted HIV after receiving blood transfusions at govt hospitals in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa and Koderma, a similar incident has come to light in Madhya Pradesh. In the latest case, six thalassaemia-affected children, aged between 3 and 15 years, tested HIV-positive at a…
RAJKOT: After checking was intensified across Gujarat due to the blast in Delhi, a Syrian man was arrested in Khambhalia town of Devbhumi Dwarka district on Monday for allegedly living in India without a valid visa.Police sources said that the 29-year-old Syrian national is in a same-sex relationship with a man from Khambhalia and had…
Koderma: A 10-year-old boy with thalassemia has tested positive for HIV after transfusions at a govt hospital in the state, making him the sixth child to be infected since last month during treatment at state-run facilities amid a deepening blood safety crisis and crackdown.While the latest case surfaced Sunday over transfusions at Koderma Sadar Hospital,…
