Youth AIDS

YouthAIDS

In March 2007, YouthAIDS Global Ambassador, Ashley Judd teamed up with Bollywood stars Sushmita Sen, Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan to explore how HIV travels from high-risk groups to the general population and why young women are increasingly at risk for infection. On this collaborative tour, the team visited brothels and slums in Mumbai to truck stops in Jaipur to the affluent communities of Delhi. National Geographic Channel will host the world premiere screening of the film that documents the journey, "India's Hidden Plague." The film will premiere in the US on Friday, November 30 at 10 PM
ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel.

Orphans in India

India today is home to the largest number of AIDS orphans in the world (the UN estimates children orhaned by AIDS as those under the age of 18 who have lost one or both parents to the disease). While India's AIDS orphan crisis is not as dire as Africa's, it is on the trajectory Africa was during the last decade. With widespread migrant labor, prostitution and a stigma about sexually-transmitted diseases causing an explosion in AIDS cases, India is expected to become the next epicenter of the AIDS orphan crisis. Though there are no government figures in the country for the number of children affected by AIDS, World Bank estimates suggest that the number of children in India orphaned by AIDS is approaching 2 million.
Who among us will help these children?