Heard of Dr.Suniti Solomon, social activist is also the founding Director of Y. R. G. Centre for AIDS Research & Education (YRG CARE), a retired Professor of Microbiology from the Madras Medical College.
In 1986, her laboratory documented the first evidence of HIV in India!!!Who had great struggle in proving to the Governement that we in India also have HIV positive victims.
Check out about Dr.Suniti Solomon's profile...http://www.yrgcare.org/overview/dr.suniti.htm
Now in her latest findings...
A new AIDS threat is rising in India's numerous call centers, where young staff are increasingly having unprotected sex with multiple partners in affairs developed during night shifts, a top AIDS expert has warned.
While India has made great strides in bringing down its HIV infection rate, the promiscuity among "call center Romeos" is a great concern, Dr.Suniti Solomon, who detected the first HIV case in India in 1986, told an international medical conference.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/210/20080622/955/tod-expert-new-aids-threat-emerging-in-i_2.html
She said this is evident in Hindu activists' opposition to circumcision which is proven to help inhibit HIV transmission on the grounds that it is against tradition and religion of Hindu-majority India. Solomon said she does not expect India to accept circumcision for preventing HIV infections.
A recent government study to gauge the acceptance for circumcision triggered a massive backlash by Hindu fundamentalists, who called it "obnoxious" and "a conspiracy." "If you go out into the streets and say I will do this (circumcision) to reduce HIV, there will be a chaos," she said.
"Vaccines have failed. Microbicides have failed.
This is one tool we have in hand but we can't use it."
Isn't it quite important for the fundamentalist to ponder over it and act wisely??!!!