Drivers and their cleaners

Only by teaching HIV prevention to the truckers can we avoid their children suffering from AIDS. So Kagoo and the Hope Foundation fan out to truck stops along mile stretch of Highway 45, which runs from the coastal port of Madras to the center of Tamil Nadu, Indias southernmost state. Today AIDS in Africa spread along the vast highway network, and to prevent that happening in India, counselors in Tamil Nadu fan out at truck stops to spread the word on safer sex. We insist on condoms.

Day 4 With AIDS spending amounting to just cents per capita, luck plays large role in determining which ailing Indians the drugs they need. Key to its success are professional counselors such as Thennarasu to work at the four busiest sites. It takes lot of effort. Drivers and their cleaners spend great deal of their time together on the road talking about women and sex, and about percent also have sexual relationships with each other.

We are able to protect ourselves, said young prostitute, Selvi, during discussion at roadside dhaba, restaurant catering to truckers. The country has about million truckers. Chronicle medical writer Sabin Russell visited India for five weeks in and under fellowship from the Henry J. Day 2 In the redlight districts of Bombay, prostitutes are learning how to refuse clients who want sex without condoms. Key to its success are professional counselors such as Thennarasu to work at the four busiest sites. Only by teaching HIV prevention to the truckers can we avoid their children suffering from AIDS.

He has been doing it for six years. As Thennarasu chats up the driver, the cleaner surreptitiously palms another foil packet, slipping it into the folds of his blue mundu, traditional wrap that coils around the hips and hangs like skirt. It costs 400,000 year to run the trucker intervention program was first honed into model for other Tamil Nadu sites, and is being duplicated throughout India.

Her story made me think of taking care of the truckers, Kagoo said. Today AIDS in Africa prevention experts hope to break the chain of HIV transmission where individual risk is highest and where the danger of spreading the disease across geographic regions is acute. I want to save my friends and my community. Benjamin Franklin, senior consultant to the Villupuram program, said role models such as Shajahan had been crucial to its success. Theres similar sense of dedication in Villupuram, miles south of Madras, where the trucker intervention programs at major Tamil Nadu sites.No tags for this post.