The need to be open about safe sexual behaviour in light of the HIV/AIDS threat
 

WITH a near 100% safe blood transfusion service, a relatively small injecting drug user population and the absence of HIV transmission through needles and syringes leaves only the sexual route open for significant HIV spread in Sri Lanka. Evidence for this theoretical premise comes from the fact that over 80% HIV/AIDS transmissions in Sri Lanka take place through the sexual route.

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Ground realities

Locked away in an orphanage
 

SRI LANKAN orphanages are not really for orphans. An orphan by definition is a child without both parents. But the large majority of children locked away in our 'orphanages' have both or at least one parent. This was a startling piece in a Sunday newspaper a few weeks ago.

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