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JACK India Excerpted from United News of India: CIA Report on HIV/AIDS Baseless by Annapurna Jha November 10, 2002 ''Mr Gates interest in HIV/AIDS projects in India is not meant for charity, as it appears. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributing funds to fight AIDS is to protect his billions of dollars of investments in pharmaceutical companies interested in conducting field trials in India,'' Mr Mulloli said. Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha has already rejected the CIA report, and the National Intelligence Council clearly stated the CIA estimates to be 'highly exaggerated' and not based on surveillance data collected in India. Mr Gates has reportedly funded the controversial report and also made huge investments in companies involved in AIDS drug research. Charging that the CIA's direct and unwarranted involvement in Indian public health issues amounted to direct intervention in its domestic affairs and a challenge to its soverignity, Mr Mulloli questioned the basis on which the CIA said that 310,000 people had died in India due to AIDS in 1999 alone. The Indian Parliament talked of a mere 114 AIDS related deaths in 1999. -------------------------------------------- Excerpted from Pioneer News Service, New Delhi: Sinha Rejects US Report on AIDS November 10, 2002 India has rejected an US intelligence agency report which projects that the country will have over 25 million people suffering with AIDS by 2010 even as an NGO charged that the report was aimed at exploiting Indian market for AIDS drugs and vaccines. ---------------------------------------- Excerpted from the Daily Pioneer: Mysterious Malaise by Purushottaman Mulloli of JackIndia November 17, 2002 The CIA says India will have 25 million infected people by 2010, the maximum in any country. But India has recorded only 287 AIDS deaths in 1997, 217 in 1998, and 114 in 1999. In whose interest is it to push up these figures?
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NACO is the major organisation in India. Here is Yahoo's directory of Indian AIDS organisations: http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/AIDS_HIV/Organizations/By_Region/Countries/India/Complete_List -------------------------------------------- "Calamity Jane's" quote from Pioneer News Services of between 114 and 287 annual AIDS deaths is a statistical howler from a New Delhi tabloid. He recycles this misprint again and again, despite having been corrected again and again. He has no respect for the truth. The WHO figure for AIDS deaths in India in 2002 was 361,000. The primary activities of JACK since 2001appear to be to try to remove anti homosexual provisions from the Indian penal code. While I don't know the complexities of this legal code, I would think criminal sanctions against gays are likely to worsen the Indian AIDS problem, leaving aside the basic human rights concerns of such discrimination. Calamity's misinformation about the facts of India's HIV problem is not helpful here, to say the least.
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National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) is apex body in India which manages all HIV/AIDS intervention. NACO operates through State AIDS Control Society (SACS) which are established in all states of India. NACO provide funding and technical expertise to SACSs in India. SACSs implement various programs like Targeted Intervention projects among more at risk population, Integrated/voluntary counseling and testing facilities for HIV, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of AIDS, Anti retro viral therapy, CD4 counts, Community care center for nutrition and medical support to terminally ill AIDS patients, drop in centers established by networks of HIV positive peoples, blood safety programs, management of sexually transmitted infections etc. Besides this several bilateral agencies are working in the field of HIV/AIDS. Most of the them are working in close collaboration of NACO. To avoid duplication of efforts all projects are cleared through NACO. Several NGOs, philanthropists, youth and celebrities are playing their role in combating the pandemic of HIV/AIDS
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