Mansi

A friend pointed me to this article called 'When silence kills' which is on the cover of the Time - Asia edition. It is an exclusive on AIDS in India.
Interestingly I spoke with the head of an Indian health NGO and got some very different sentiments, all of which I will share as soon as I have the time to put them all down in a post. For the time being, go ahead and read the article.

I have been interested in AIDS for a long time now. I read about it. I watch programs on it. I talk with other people about it. I have on two seperate occasions written to NAZ, volunteering my time except the emails always bounce back. There are times when it seems like a life dedicated to AIDS in India appears like my calling and that for the most part, I am not listening to it.

I created this community to then put (at the very least)words to this calling. Starting with just putting down my thoughts on the subject in addition to reporting on what I've seen/read/heard about it - All of course, with a single purpose: How can all of this information help us understand AIDS in India?

I want to try hard to stay away from 'propagating' solutions. I am more eager to look at the different approaches to AIDS prevention and cure and understand how they can apply to my country. Most of all, I want this community to churn up creative to-dos that reflect a clear and deep understanding of the many implementation roadblocks we are facing in this country.

I invite all of you who have opinions, thoughts and reporting skills to join this community and together we can build a repository of understanding around AIDS in India.

How to contribute to this community: You will need to have an account with blogspirit - the blogging service provider. (Go to www.blogspirit.com to join). Next you will need to log in, navigate to the POSTS section and click on the sub-heading - Communities. This page will allow you to search for the community you would like to subscribe to. Last, every time you post on something relevant to this community, please be sure to mark your post to the community(which will appear on your 'new post' page template if you're subscribed to the community already).

Thank you folks and happy calling!