Several years ago I visited India to warn of an impending endemic of HIV/AIDS heading there and to Maharashtra in particular. I went to Poona and met an intelligent and honest Parsi, Dr Keki Grant, at Ruby Hall. He indicated that 80 percent of the brothels in Bombay were infected as was one percent of the Indian population. I met a Jain doctor in Bombay who informed me that the numbers of infected persons was the same in all communities in Bombay and that community leaders even in minority communities were in denial.
Today, I am reading a book based on......