Whether it is Bill Gates and Richard Gere or Shabana Azmi and Nafisa Ali, everybody seems to be worried about the grave danger that the killer disease AIDS is posing to India. Some wild estimates even predict that more than 10 million Indians will be killed by AIDS every year after 2010, and that it will devastate the Indian economy, since most of the victims will be from the working age group contributing to India’s growth. No doubt, AIDS is a menace and needs to be tackled. But this obsession with AIDS neglects traditional killers like T.B, malaria and diarrhoea. Just a look at some numbers will clearly reveal the bias of the chattering classes towards AIDS.
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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006
