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Estimates are that among India's 1 billion people -- one-sixth of the world's population -- only 0.5 percent are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. However, that translates into 4.6 million infections, more than any other nation except South Africa, where an estimated 5.3 million adults and children are HIV-positive.
Yet India spends far less per capita on HIV, about 11 cents, than many impoverished African nations. Uganda, for example, spends $1.81 per capita on AIDS prevention. The United States, by comparison, will spend $63 per person, or $18.5 billion, for its domestic and foreign AIDS programs in 2004.
AIDS in India -- South Asia's smolderi
g threat
First of a Five-Part Series
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-b
in/article.cgi?...MNGG87GJJ01.DTL
Part II: The Ro
le of Prostitution in South Asia's Epidemic
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGEV7GPK71.DTL
Part III: Spreading the Message of Prevention
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNG1Q7H72A1.DTL
Part IV: Increased funding fails to curb AIDS
$5 billion not enough to halt global epidemic
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNG4D7HNMK1.DTL</a
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Part V: Epidemic imperils the future
Nation could face Africa-like disaster
<a href='http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/08/MNGVO7I80R1.DTL'
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Estimates are that among India's 1 billion people -- one-sixth of the world's population -- only 0.5 percent are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. However, that translates into 4.6 million infections, more than any other nation except South Africa, where an estimated 5.3 million adults and children are HIV-positive.
Yet India spends far less per capita on HIV, about 11 cents, than many impoverished African nations. Uganda, for example, spends $1.81 per capita on AIDS prevention. The United States, by comparison, will spend $63 per person, or $18.5 billion, for its domestic and foreign AIDS programs in 2004.
AIDS in India -- South Asia's smolderi
g threat
First of a Five-Part Series
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-b
in/article.cgi?...MNGG87GJJ01.DTL
Part II: The Ro
le of Prostitution in South Asia's Epidemic
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGEV7GPK71.DTL
Part III: Spreading the Message of Prevention
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNG1Q7H72A1.DTL
Part IV: Increased funding fails to curb AIDS
$5 billion not enough to halt global epidemic
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNG4D7HNMK1.DTL</a
>
Part V: Epidemic imperils the future
Nation could face Africa-like disaster
<a href='http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/08/MNGVO7I80R1.DTL'
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et='_blank'>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGVO7I80R1.DTL