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AIDS body staff strike hits patients
Times of India | TNN | Mar 24, 2012, 02.21AM IST
An indefinite strike called by contractual employees of the Manipur Aids Control Society (Macs) against the government's alleged denial to revise their pay and due arrears, is affecting thousands of people living with HIV/Aids.
Manipur is one of the six states of the country with a high prevalence of the epidemic. The total number of HIV positive cases in the state recorded by Macs, a society set up by the state government, is 38,016, including 10,109 womenand 2,578 children.
The agitating Macs employees said their monthly salary has not been revised since the implementation of the National Aids Control Programme (NACP) III in 2008. The arrears, which have already been implemented in other states by the National Aids Control Organization (Naco), are yet to be cleared in the state and the 15 per cent annual increment is also not to be translated into action in the last four years.
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