Partial awakening
The powers that be finally seem to be alive to the AIDS threat, even envisaging the involvement of policymakers in stemming the scourge. How exactly they will play this role has, however, not been spelt out.
That the disease poses an unprecedented public health challenge was unanimously recognised at the country's first-ever National Convention of Elected Representatives on HIV/AIDS. Led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, more than 1,000 delegates