India, South Africa Reach Out To Truck Drivers In Fight Against HIV/AIDS

June 2, 2009 by admin

PTI/The Hindu examines a recently launched national HIV prevention program that will target an estimated 5 million truck drivers in India, a group health experts consider to be at high-risk for HIV. “Quite often these truckers are clients or partners of male and female sex workers because of their separation from regular partners for long time.

Source: India, South Africa Reach Out To Truck Drivers In Fight Against HIV/AIDS

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