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GATE 2009 Important Dates

Commencement of  :

1) Sale of information brochure and offline application  forms	22nd September 2008	Monday
2) Online application form submission	22nd September 2008	Monday

Last date of issue of Information Brochure and  Application forms :

1) by post from GATE Offices	17th October 2008	Friday
2) at bank counters	24th October 2008	Friday
3) at GATE office counters	29th October 2008	Wednesday

Last date for :

1) Online application form submission (website closure)	24th October 2008	Friday
2) Receipt of completed Online/Offline Application Form at respective zonal GATE Office	29th October 2008	Wednesday

Date of the examination       08^th February 2009 Sunday
Announcement of results     15th March 2009 Sunday

HIV/AIDS Risk Trend

Amidst the pessimism springing from the recent failure of about 150 prevention trials that failed to shield subjects against HIV infection, there's the resolve to continue research on developing a vaccine, and battle through all the challenges the process poses.
On a pessimistic note, hope of a vaccine in the short term isn't anywhere in sight as France's National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS) has expressed. Though not in the short run, the Scripps Research Institute expressed optimism with a possibility of a vaccine in about 10 years. Till that time, the available HIV drugs need to reach one and all.

Apparently, HIV/Aids is quite a multi-headed monster. While efforts to curtail it continue, research reveals newer risky trends among people, and unravel findings that appear to be quite startling.

The Risky Trend
Consider the case of India where and estimated 2 to 3.1 million HIV infected persons reside. Researchers inform that young call center workers are becoming a breeding ground for the infections because of unprotected sex with many partners amongst the staffers. About 1.3 million people graduate in India, many of whom choose to work in call centers due to good starting salaries of US$ 600 (from Indian standards).

Reducing Hiv/aids Vulnerability Among Adolescents

To reduce HIV/AIDS vulnerability among adolescents, there is a need to develop strategies and methods for effective curriculum focusing on sex education and life skills especially. Internalizing more participatory learning-teaching method, it is felt that a stronger integration of prevention education vis-à-vis sex & reproductive health approaches is essential for improving the high-quality HIV prevention & care. It is estimated that there are 1.2 billion adolescents in the world. Near about eighty seven percent of these adolescents live in the developing countries. More than eighty five percent adolescents of Bangladesh do not know what reproductive health is and how to practice safe sex. Most of them are not aware of how to undermine the vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. To make them free from such encumbrance as HIV/AIDS, we have to ensure a healthy and promising environment. It is believed that if the adolescents have qualitative reproductive health literacy ultimately HIV/AIDS prevention programs initiated by GOs and NGos will be successful.

Only effective education can ensure qualitative reproductive health literacy. This kind of literacy helps adolescents analyze thoroughly basic information, core messages, values and praxis related to HIV/AIDS prevention. Simultaneously they are able to inculcate caring and supportive attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). They possess the basic facts and information bringing about acquisition of knowledge and development of attitudes, values, skills and practices (KAVSP) as to undermining the spread of HIV/AIDS. Consequently they have profound awareness on practicing safe sex, use of condoms, gender equity, harmful effect of early marriage, premarital sex and unplanned pregnancy.

Reducing HIV/AIDS vulnerability among adolescents may be promoted auspiciously through evaluating the attitudes and values within community based social norms/beliefs, cooperation and teamwork. From the salad days, adolescents have to be guided by active and participatory learning that they may analyze, study ideas, solve problems and apply what they learn. It is important to ensure that active learning would be fast-paced, enjoyable and personally engaging. In this regard, cooperative learning may play a vital role to make the adolescents aware of HIV/AIDS significantly. It is one kind of effective group approaches with a view to learning with common objectives, mutual rewards, shared resources and complementary roles. Through this approach, group members are stimulated to help each other to master the lesson or activity. Thus an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect are established. Eventually the learning environment is warm as well as adolescents are made to express their views, opinions, attitudes and behaviors freely.

Adolescence is the prime and sensitive period of so many physical, emotional and cognitive developments. So adolescents have to experience many changes unexpectedly. In most cases, they remain unaware of how to efficiently cope with these kinds of physical and psychological changes. Attitudes to sexuality are being developed gradually during puberty. In this time, if adolescents are misguided or deprived of acquiring reproductive health literacy they will suffer all the time in their lives. There is no doubt that sexual maturity leads to happiness and fulfillment in future personal and social relationships. So there is no alternative for adolescents to learn about issues related to reproductive health from parents, teachers and other elders for being able to understand and develop a healthy attitude.

Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS is skyrocketing in the developing countries jeopardized by lack of qualitative reproductive health literacy among the adolescents. But reproductive health literacy itself offers one of the key hopes against HIV/AIDS epidemic as well as its influential eventualities. In fighting the pandemic, reproductive health literacy comprising transfer of skills and attitudes to reduce adolescents’ vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS is the most effective means. It is seriously necessary to reduce the fear of HIV/AIDS any how. Reproductive health literacy can do a lot to combat HIV/AIDS facilitating adolescents in attaining the knowledge, attitudes and skills that they need to delay sexual intercourse, reduce their number of sex partners, prevent illicit drug/substance use and avoid infection by using condoms.

The academic curriculum of the developing countries like Bangladesh should provide adolescents with opportunities to learn and practice life skills, such as decision-making and communication skills, which can strengthen other important areas of early life development. It is expected that different aspects of inclusive HIV/AIDS/STI study must be built-in into all suitable subject areas, such as reproductive health, human rights & legal aids, home economics, gender development & women empowerment, social studies and science.

HIV virus survive in a Dead Human body

When a person dies, HIV will not "die" immediately after death. This is because there is a large quantity of blood in the body, and it takes time for the conditions inside the body to change to an unlivable environment for the virus. Death is more of a process than an instantaneous event. The conditions in a dead body change slowly and gradually.

There have been several studies that have looked at how long HIV survives in a dead body. In unrefrigerated bodies, HIV generally survives up to 24-36 hours after death. However in refrigerated bodies, the survival time of HIV is significantly increased. In one study, in bodies that were stored at 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit), HIV was still viable for up to 6 days. In another study, bodies refrigerated at 2 degrees Celsius (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit) were found to have infectious HIV for up to 16.5 days.

Now, this does NOT mean that HIV will survive for up to 16 days outside the body! The environment inside a recently dead body is quite different from the environment outside the body. The specific environment inside a dead body changes gradually. The longer the body is dead, the more difficult it is for HIV to survive. Refrigeration slows down this process. Once the virus leaves the human body, it dies within minutes, since the virus is immediately going into an environment in which it cannot survive. Inside a dead body, the changes to the viruses environment occur gradually, which is why HIV will survive for longer periods of time. Refrigeration of a dead body further slows down this process.

As long as Universal Precautions (standard infection control guidelines) are followed, the risk of infection from a dead body is very low. If the body fluids of a recently dead body do not have a direct access to another persons bloodstream, there will not be a risk of infection. However, transmission can still occur during autopsies if a needlestick occurs, or if a person is cut by a knife (which is what happened in the case mentioned above). One way of further reducing the risk of infection during autopsies (in addition to Universal Precautions), is to delay doing the autopsy. The longer a person dead, the less the risk of transmission. However, since most bodies are quickly refrigerated after death, the risk of infection when performing an autopsy can still occur, even days after death.

When a person is embalmed after death, a combination of fixatives and disinfectants in embalming fluid, can inactivate the HIV virus, significantly reducing/eliminating, the risk of transmission.

In summary, the length of time that viable HIV can survive in a dead body varies, based on a number of different factors including the viral load of the person at the time of death, how long the person has been dead, whether the body has been refrigerated or not, etc

HIV/AIDS and Women

HIV and AIDS were originally thought to affect mostly gay men. However, women have always been affected too. And even though more men than women have HIV, women are catching up. In fact, if new HIV infections continue at their current rate worldwide, women with HIV may soon outnumber men with HIV.

The good news is that many women with HIV are living longer and stronger lives. With proper care and treatment, many women can continue to take care of themselves and others.

In some respects HIV and AIDS affect women in almost the same way they affect men. For example,

• Women of color (especially African American women) are the hardest hit.
• Younger women are more likely than older women to get HIV.
• AIDS is a common killer, second only to cancer and heart disease for women.

How are women getting HIV?

The most common ways are (in order)

1. having sex with a man who has HIV
2. sharing injection drug works (needles, syringes, etc.) used by someone with HIV

Criminalize SELLand BUY of SEX

India must make Buying and Selling of sex punishable as a crime and
must make a close suvielance into trafficking and must strengthen
anti-trafficking law. And Prostitution should be completely banned in India.

Prostitution is not well monitored in India.I dont think it is completely
banned in India.Thats why Rick Cloud is flying so swift and they are
Becoming larger and larger every second .

Why Prostitution needs to be banned?
Because I feel this is one of the Major Route for Transmission of HIV.
Providing more and more condoms to commercial sex workers may be
a way to reduce the high rate of transmission. But, inspite of trying this
distribution of condoms to various community by the HIV/AIDS
organisations and NGOs for the recent many years, it apparently seems
that the rate of infection is still on the increase.

So, I will say there is a defect in the straregy.
We need to drop this strategy and change to some other way.
In other words , It is like saying 'Criminalize sell and buy of SEx' effectively.
One of the Effect this can cause is that The number of Rape Cases may increase.


This is just a suggestion , I dont have the Complete Power to impose
Such a Policy. I just want to hear comments. All comments are most welcome.

INTRO

Hi Everyone , I m Amarjit aKa NAS.

I m working as a Software Engineer at Gurgaon, India.

Right now, I am residing at New Delhi.

My Hobbies include listening to music, playing Table tennis, Travelling, Photography, Etc.

Interestingly, sleeping is the most active thing i am aware of.

I like Jack Daniels.And I hate pink.
Music rushes and Flows with My blood StREam.
Music is my God, otherwise i am not a religious person.
My genre of listening begins at rock and ends at metal.
After that my knowledge about music is a full stop..
I Hate Military!!
I am a self confessed GEEK.
My cameras are the only thing am aware of that are a prized possession after my Mind itself.
As a kid, i wanted to be Bill Gates II
I b've everything i do is an art - sPeeding....
I beleive we all are Prisoners of the System.....
I hate casteism,racism and religious fanaticism.
Am always ready to pack my bags and rush off- I love traveling.

I m also a Web Designer and Programmer just as a Hobby.

I show highest respect to - MOnkS!!...probably cuz someday i'll turn into one..!

*Peice of MInd* is ALL i ask foR.