India has had a sharp increase in the estimated number of HIV infections, from a few thousand in the early 1990s to around 5.1 million children and adults living with HIV/AIDS in 2003. With a population of over one billion, the HIV epidemics in India will have a major impact on the overall spread of HIV in Asia and the Pacific and indeed worldwide. India's epidemic is made up of a number of epidemics, and in some places they occur within the same state. The epidemics differ, from states with mainly gay sex transmission of HIV, to some states where injecting drug use is the main route of HI…
