HIV-hit to run city pharmacy [ Tuesday, January 24, 2006 01:58:42 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
PUNE: In a rare initiative in the country, a pharmacy for the HIV- positive in the city, to be run by the people who are HIV-positive, was launched here on Monday by a pharmaceutical company. Called Taal, the pharmacy, located on Laxmi road in the Nana Peth area, will initially provide anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for adults as well as the infected paediatric population registered with the Network of Maharashtra by People Living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+). It was inaugurated by Bollywood actor Nana Patekar. Established by Emcure Pharmaceuticals as part of its corporate social responsibility, its director (operations), A.K. Khanna, said Taal has been established in co-ordination with NMP+, Network of Positive People living with HIV/AIDS (INP+) and technical support from the Human Development Resource Network (a non-profit making organisation supported by the UNDP regional HIV and development programme. Group Site: http://www.gaybombay.info ========================== This message was posted to the gay_bombay Yahoo! Group. Responses to messages (by clicking "Reply") will also be posted on the eGroup and sent to all members. If you'd like to respond privately to the author of any message then please compose and send a new email message to the author's email address. Post:- gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digest Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individual Mail Mode:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Us:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives are at http://www.mail-archive.com/gay_bombay%40yahoogroups.com/maillist.html Classifieds for personal advertisements are back on www.gaybombay.info site. Please exercise restraint in the language of your personal advertisement. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gay_bombay/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/