INDIA: Human trafficking in the northeast fuelling HIV/AIDS - report

INDIA: Human trafficking in the northeast fuelling HIV/AIDS - report

17 May 2006 07:41:26 GMT
Source: IRIN
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KOKRAJHAR, 17 May (IRIN) - Images of guns, drugs and rebels have long defined India's troubled northeast. Now, a study across eight states in this resource-rich, infrastructure-poor, conflict-scarred region seeks to highlight a new worry: the rising tide of human trafficking - mostly women and girls - and its potential for hastening the spread of HIV/AIDS.

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