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[size="3"][url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Government-project-prevents-1-lakh-fresh-HIV-cases-in-five-years/articleshow/10308234.cms"]Government project prevents 1 lakh fresh HIV cases in five years[/url] : TOI, Oct 11, 2011



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NEW DELHI: About 100, 000 fresh HIV cases among the general population were averted in India in five years by targeting the most vulnerable section. [color="#9932cc"]{ oh reallyeeee...? } <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<_<' />[/color]



A study - conducted jointly by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, University of Hong Kong and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) - has found that Avahan successfully slowed the transmission of HIV among the general population by raising the coverage of prevention interventions in high-risk groups like female sex workers, their clients and partners, men who have sex with men (MSM), intravenous drug users and truck drivers.



Launched in 2003, Avahan received $258 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and complemented the government's own efforts on HIV prevention. The programme was implemented in four large states - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu - and two small northeastern states of Manipur and Nagaland.



[color="#9932cc"]{----------- Gate's father served on the board of Planned Parenthood and was a leading eugenicist. The Gates Foundation funded the cervical-cancer vaccines in AP and Gujarat which led to complications and a few deaths -----------}[/color]



These six states were estimated to have the highest HIV prevalence in India in 2003, and a total population of 300 million.



The study, "Assessment of population-level effect of Avahan, an HIV-prevention initiative in India," published in the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, says interventions like safe-sex counselling by peers, clinical services like treatment for sexually transmitted infections, distribution of free condoms and needle and syringe exchange programmes among the most-at-risk population prevented the virus from spreading among the general population.

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... India has an estimated 2.4 million living with HIV, making it one of the largest infected populations in the world. [color="#9932cc"]{ sez who? oh the UN !! }[/color]

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