A small win in a Big Battle
Its the small wins like this that will spur us to bigger victories. Reuters reports that, " A former prostitute has taken over as head of a global HIV/AIDS project in eastern India, promising to completely wipe out new infections in one of Asia's biggest red light districts.Bharati Dey, 40, took over as director of the World Health Organisation-funded HIV/AIDS project for some 6,000 prostitutes of Sonagachi, a teeming red light district in northern Kolkata.
Its the small wins like this that will spur us to bigger victories. Reuters reports that, " A former prostitute has taken over as head of a global HIV/AIDS project in eastern India, promising to completely wipe out new infections in one of Asia's biggest red light districts.Bharati Dey, 40, took over as director of the World Health Organisation-funded HIV/AIDS project for some 6,000 prostitutes of Sonagachi, a teeming red light district in northern Kolkata.
"My chief goal is to ensure that not a single sex worker offers her service without condoms. We want to bring down the infection rate to zero," Dey, who took over on Dec. 1, told Reuters.
Sonagachi's HIV/AIDS control programme has brought infection rates down to around five percent from around 90 percent a decade ago, partly by encouraging prostitutes to refuse sex without condoms.The Sonagachi programme's success saw the U.S.-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation use it as a model for a $200 million project in six other Indian cities."
posted by Cogito at
1:23 PM
3 Comments:
Definitely a quantum leap indeed!
By
QuaTros, at 2:53 PM
Singapore model of mandatory HIV test for pregnant women will help address HIV in children which is very important.. Indian Govt should consider implementation of this rule..
By
Anonymous, at 4:55 PM
Quatros -- Definitely..
Anonymous -- Its easier to pass such an ordinance in India but very difficult to roll it out across the country but certainly what you have suggested is a step in the right direction.
By
Cogito, at 10:55 AM
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