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The road to ruin

'India has among the highest incidence of AIDS cases,' observes ESP Films director Amarpal Singh Bal. '5.1 million at last count. That's about 13% of the global numbers. The short-term projections are scary: by 2010, the number of HIV-positive cases is projected to grow to 25 million. We've gone some distance in trying to create AIDS awareness in the country, but the nature of AIDS intervention is woefully inadequate. Unless we manage to raise the pitch of informed opinion advocating substantive changes, we'll flounder at ground zero.'

June 1, 2005

'India has among the highest incidence of AIDS cases,' observes ESP Films director Amarpal Singh Bal. '5.1 million at last count. That's about 13% of the global numbers. The short-term projections are scary: by 2010, the number of HIV-positive cases is projected to grow to 25 million. We've gone some distance in trying to create AIDS awareness in the country, but the nature of AIDS intervention is woefully inadequate. Unless we manage to raise the pitch of informed opinion advocating substantive changes, we'll flounder at ground zero.'