NEW DELHI, 13. Sept.: India plans to recruit one young man and woman from every large village in the country to over the next five years teach their peers about safe sex and HIV, a health official said Wednesday.
The army of young people would be part of Indias frontline as it tries to slow the spread of the deadly virus, which already infects an estimated 5,7 million Indians — the world’s largest caseload, according to the UN.
– They could be weavers, or agricultural laborers or just be hanging around the village market place, said Sujatha Rao, director general of Indias National Aids Control Organization.
– But the point is the distribution of condoms, and messages on radio and TV only go so far. We need to sit down with young people and make them talk, she told a conference on sexual equality.
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