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HIV/AIDS in India  7/8/2003
with Fred de Sam Lazaro

This video feature is the second in a series of spotlights from kaisernetwork.org on local efforts around the world to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Watch our video features on Haiti and Brazil

India may be facing the world's largest HIV/AIDS epidemic, at least in raw numbers. While efforts in the past to fight it have stalled, there is now new hope with $100 million grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. With comprehensive surveillance, media compaigns, and projects to distribute drugs, India now has some of the elments in place to begin containing HIV.

Our report—prepared by Fred de Sam Lazaro, also a correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer—features interviews with people who are on frontlines of India's efforts.

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CONTEXT OF THE EPIDEMIC
3.97 million: Estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2001.
1,025,096,000: Population of India (2001)
20-25 million: Projected number of people who could be living with HIV/AIDS in 2010


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