Married Indian women targeted in HIV awareness campaign

HIV/AIDS activists in India are targeting married women as part of a campaign to battle the increasing number of women infected by their husbands.

“We need to expand the focus to include married, monogamous women who may not perceive themselves to be at risk, but whose personal risk is inextricably linked to the behaviour of their husbands,” said Suniti Solomon, of the Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education.
“As more and more women get infected, notions of risk group need to be redefined to more accurately assess potential for HIV infections.”
…Solomon’s organisation recently reported that in a study of 3,357 women more than 85 percent of those who tested positive had a single sexual partner.

For more information on India and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, check out this country report from UNAIDS.