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Article: HEALTH-INDIA: TEACHING SAFE SEX TO LONG-DISTANCE TRUCK DRIVERS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- September 26, 2000
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
09-26-2000
MUMBAI, India, Sep. 26 (IPS) -- Under the shade of a large
tree, a group of men drinks tea and plays cards at the end of
their long haul to India's largest truck terminus in this western
city.
They are soon joined by a young woman who begins asking them
questions about how AIDS is transmitted, and what should be done
once it is contracted.
The informal class is part of an AIDS education class in
progress for truck drivers at the Cotton Green truck terminus
where every day some 5,000 trucks loaded with goods arrive from
across the country.
The classes were begun three years ago by the non-governmental
organization (NGO), Population ...