February 23, 2007

India’s Big Problem

India is believed to have the highest number of people with HIV in the world at 5.7 million but information is scarce and news reports suggest an epidemic of anti-HIV stigma. Recently, an HIV positive boy was denied treatment because doctors were afraid to operate on him. And a new study finds that less than half of all Indian women have even heard of AIDS—and that their ignorance may be helping drive up the national infection rate.

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