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India to Create HIV "Safe Zones" for Migrants
February 1, 2007
India will map out high-risk migration corridors and create safe spaces in cities where migrant workers congregate to protect them from the HIV virus, the head of its anti-AIDS agency said on Thursday.
India has the world's highest caseload with around 5.7 million people living with the virus, according to the United Nations, and migrants are considered a very high-risk group.
An estimated one quarter of India's 1.1 billion population, mostly the poor from its villages and towns, move around the country in search of a livelihood every year.
© Reuters Foundation 2002
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Winnie Mutch on 1 February 2007
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