Volunteers of a AIDS Council Clinic have their faces painted with slogans during an event to mark World AIDS Day in Bhopal, India, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2002. Events were organized all across India Sunday, for creating awareness about AIDS. (AP Photo/Prakash Hatvalne)
World AIDS Day in India Story aired: Monday, December 01, 2008
More than 33 million people live with HIV/AIDS, and the vast majority of those are in developing countries where only a third of people get the anti-retroviral treatment they need. India has done more to lower the cost of those drugs than any other country, but they still are too much for most of the affected population to afford.
3 million people are living with HIV/AIDS there, from sex workers, truckers, to housewives and they're the topic of a new book "AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India." We speak with the book's editor, Negar Akhavi, and author Nalini Jones who wrote an essay for the book.
