Aids Sutra: Untold Stories from India

Cool article; thanks.

LOL, ahmedmadani...

Re: # 5 Prof.R.Haq.... presently we are in danger due to health problems in India. Some "flue" is going on and thousands of people are dieing every month and is spreading like wild fire. Should Pakistan close visitors from in confined place and warn people to avoid indians. They go on eating meat of pigs mostly poor and pig is dirty animal which is forbidden by jews and muslims as haram food. We need to discover Indian visits. It appears all disease of poverty more in india , like small pox, plague, polieo, leprocy and AIDS etc. We have more of excess fod and lack of exercise like heart attacks, clasteroil. blood pressure and boesity. Generally rich life diseases are better than poor economic diseases. Just little difference of addition of DNA from western asia and central asia the stock of people is strong hardy like horse compared to cows, monkey, snake, rats , dogd, feline worshippers.

Re: # 4 Prof R Haq.... it is significant that muslim countries are not ravaged due to puritan and more conservative attitude.

In response to a recent Forbes magazine article that criticized the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s work to fight HIV/AIDS in India, the foundation says the story had “significant errors and mischaracterizes key aspects of the initiative.”

In a letter to the editor, Tachi Yamada, the fund’s president of global health, defended the India program, known as Avahan. He writes that the article inaccurately stated that the program is winding down — Gates has extended its commitment to 2014 — and that Forbes misstated the program’s goals.

In addition, Mr. Yamada disagreed with the article’s claim that Avahan has made no significant headway to curb HIV/AIDS. “

While it is too early to fully assess Avahan’s long-term impact,” he writes, “early signs are encouraging — data from some projects suggest these efforts are increasing condom use and reducing STD infections.”

Some nonprofit experts, like New Philanthropy Capital, in London, have questioned the Forbes article, while others, like the anonymous author of the Gates Keepers blog, support the critical look at Gates.

What do you think of the criticism of Avahan?

http://philanthropy.com/giveandtake/index.php?id=1135

Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide

http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=7b6928bf-1ae9-41a4-9e5 1-b9a093f81aa4&&Headline='Indian+men+fuelling+HIV+epidemic'



A (androphobic) woman politicians view of males.


WAKE UP, MALES! SPEAK UP!

Thanks for the review Joya. It is somewhat controversial subject not just in India but in the developed countries as well. Your review has perked my interest in the book of essays. Thanks for sharing.

The cultural backwardness of South Asian society is rooted in religions and traditions. Outcasting widows and the terminally sick and a passive aggression towards the economically downtrodden is one example. Working poor are looked down, ridiculed and abused. Unfortunate should not cross path with the wealthy, is a well established custom. However, India has identified the aids problem and through the efforts to care for them, a modern, humane social transition could be aimed at.