via The New York Times, by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
A large and costly AIDS prevention program that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pioneered in India eight years ago has had mixed results, according to a preliminary analysis published on Monday in The Lancet.
When the program began, it was assumed that India, with its huge population and government officials reluctant to discuss the problem, would quickly surpass South Africa as the country with the most AIDS cases. A 2007 household survey allayed those fears; the epidemic had stayed largely within the risk groups. India is now thought to be in third place, behind Nigeria.
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A large and costly AIDS prevention program that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pioneered in India eight years ago has had mixed results, according to a preliminary analysis published on Monday in The Lancet. The foundation spent $258 million on the program from 2003 to 2008. It has since put in $80 million more, but is shifting responsibility to the Indian government.
The program, called Avahan, focuses on high-risk groups, like drug addicts, gay and bisexual men, and prostitutes and their clients, including truckers. It pays for education campaigns, safe-sex counseling, syringes, condoms and treatment for other venereal diseases. (Above, a sex worker at a prevention meeting.)
When the program began, it was assumed that India, with its huge population and government officials reluctant to discuss the problem, would quickly surpass South Africa as the country with the most AIDS cases. A 2007 household survey allayed those fears; the epidemic had stayed largely within the risk groups. India is now thought to be in third place, behind Nigeria.
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[Content that is linked from other sources is for informational purposes and should not construe a Mapping Pathways position.]
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