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WHO Disturbed by feminisation of HIV in India
November 01, 2007 at 7:38 PM
AIDS/HIV News
Referring to a study by UNAIDS in 2006, Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan, technical officer, sexual and reproductive health and HIV, WHO, said that nearly 39 percent of the people affected by HIV are women and that young women in the age group of 15-24 are twice as much affected than men. This was worrisome, she added.
"The increasing feminisation of HIV in India, among the younger lot, is not a good sign," Narasimhan said. Approximately 2.5 million people in India are affected by HIV. And though a lot has been talked about it, many experts feel that nothing concrete has been done in this context.
"There is far too much of dialogue, too much of lip service and tokenism. But when it comes to actually tackling the problem, especially when it concerns the youth, nothing much has been done," said Lester Coutinho of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, India.
Coutinho has conducted a programme aimed at spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS in the tribal areas of Bihar and Jharkhand for eight years. "What I realised is that if you want to have a youth programme, then let the youth handle everything with the vision that they will not be doing this forever. They simply pass on the responsibility to the next batch.
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