100,000 HIV infections stopped by safe-sex scheme
English: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm not sure if I would be glad with this kind of story... I mean, I find this simply a workaround to the root cause, rather than stopping the issue from the source. Just my 2 cents worth... ----- Posted: 11 October 2011 PARIS: A scheme in six Indian states that concentrated safe-sex campaigns on a few niche groups prevented 100,000 HIV infections over five years, according to estimates published in The Lancet on Tuesday. The so-called Avahan project was launched in 2003 in Andhra Pradesh , Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu , along with the northeastern states of Manipur and Nagaland , using a massive grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . These states, with a total population of 300 million, had the highest prevalences of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in India at the time. Avahan's goal was to boost prevention among prostitutes and their customers, gays, i...