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India's Growing AIDS Epidemic: A View from the Ground 2/23/2005 Asia Society, New York, N.Y. Other Related Links      ------------------- Organizations and Research Institutions Publications and Reports Related Webcasts Sources for Further Research Publications and Reports "Strategy for the Second Wave: Learning from India’s Experience with HIV/AIDS" CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS, November 2004 [.pdf] "India's Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic" The Lancet, October 9, 2004 (Requires free, one-time registration) [.pdf] "Actor Richard Gere To Launch HIV/AIDS Awareness Project in India" (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 7/8/2004) Richard Gere and Parmeshwar Godrej launched the 'Heroes Project' today with an aim to mobilize societal leaders and the media industry to fight HIV/AIDS in India. Healing the Divide has received a grant of up to $2.4 million over three years from Avahan, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's India AIDS initiative, and will implement the Heroes Project through the Gere Foundation India Trust. "UNAIDS Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in India: 2002 Update" Statistics on the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, and discussion of knowledge and behaviors related to HIV transmission. [.pdf] UNAIDS, 2004 "The Future of HIV/AIDS" According to the article's author, Nicholas Eberstadt, HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eurasia "threatens to derail the economic prospects of billions and alter the global military balance." According to the article, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eurasia -- defined in the article as the region encompassing Asia and Russia -- will be "[d]riven" by the spread of HIV in the territory's three largest countries: China, India and Russia. The spread of HIV in Eurasia will have "major worldwide repercussions" because the continent is home to most of the world's population, hosts a sizable military and has "substantial economic weight" in the international arena. Foreign Affairs, November/December 2002 "The Destabilizing Impact of HIV/AIDS: First Wave Hits Eastern and Southern Africa; Second Wave Threatens India, China, Russia, Ethiopia, Nigeria" CSIS HIV/AIDS Task Force, May 2002 "The Next Wave of HIV/AIDS: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, India, and China" This Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) highlights the rising HIV/AIDS problem through 2010 in five countries of strategic importance to the United States that have large populations at risk for HIV infection: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, India, and China. National Intelligence Council, September 2002 Return to HealthCast ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... About Us     Help