Prabhat Jha Quotations

We have to identify the hot spots ? highways, factories, places where young men gather ? and scale up prevention efforts.

We are seeing a decline and it's real.

There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India's AIDS problem will explode -- as it did in southern Africa -- but we now have direct evidence of something positive. The good news is that HIV in young adults appears to be declining in the south -- most likely or perhaps only due to men keeping away from (sex workers) or using condoms more often when they do. The not-so-good news is that trends in the north remain uncertain and poorly studied.

What our study shows is that safe sex campaigns do work.

Governments have to take tobacco seriously. The key message is that it is possible to avoid up to three million deaths a year.