


India provides free condoms under its community-based AIDS
prevention programme that targets high-risk groups like sex workers. That
strategy, the World Bank estimates, helped avert 3
million HIV infections
between 1995 and 2015.

But government data released last week showed about
two-thirds of India's 31 state AIDS units had less than a month's supply of
condoms. Some states only have enough for a few days.
Reliable supplies are key experts fear that the shortage
could lead to more unsafe sex and increased infections, among the
poor.
Source: Reuters...More...
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