Governments have to take tobacco seriously. The key message is that it is possible to avoid up to three million deaths a year. |
There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India's AIDS problem will explode -- as it did in southern Africa -- but we now have direct evidence of something positive. The good news is that HIV in young adults appears to be declining in the south -- most likely or perhaps only due to men keeping away from (sex workers) or using condoms more often when they do. The not-so-good news is that trends in the north remain uncertain and poorly studied. |
We are seeing a decline and it's real and not due to study biases. Husbands' use of sex workers has changed — it's less often and with condoms. That's the only plausible explanation. |
We are seeing a decline and it's real. |
We have to identify the hot spots ? highways, factories, places where young men gather ? and scale up prevention efforts. |
What our study shows is that safe sex campaigns do work. |