Reuters: Funding crisis puts India’s AIDS program, and lives, at risk
“India’s fight against AIDS is being jeopardized by a cut in social spending by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, with health workers being laid off and programs to prevent the spread of the deadly disease curtailed. … [I]n February, Modi slashed the 2015-16 central AIDS budget by 22 percent, asking states to fill the gap…” (Kalra/Siddiqui, 7/24).