survival.? ?And what is the role of all the ?gender-sensitive? womens? organizations who will be implementators (and beneficiaries) of this UNICEF endeavor? ?Why are they not protesting against ? instead of participating in ? such a program? Is it because no foreign funding is available for such a protest? Is it because they see their role of serving people as a poor second to their own need for staying in business?? ?The most obvious ?achievement? of HIV/AIDS prevention and control measures has been to create an ?AIDS scare,? as borne out by media reports such as the following: ?In a village in Kerala when a whole family committed suicide out of fear of ostracism when the head of the family found he was infected with HIV. ?In a village in Bengal the village priest?s family was thrown out of the village when it was found out that their son, a casual laborer in Bombay, was HIV positive. ?In Tamil Nadu, within a week of UNAIDS declaring it as a ?successful state? a suspected case of HIV was burnt alive in the street. ?In Haryana, an entire village was ostracized when medical community, without benefit of recommended tests, declared a villager to be suffering from AIDS. ?For about a decade now we have been evolving into one of the largest research laboratories and a guinea pig farm for experimenting with dubious [Aids] drugs. Obviously, this is not happening without the knowledge ? even connivance ? of concerned authorities.? HIV/AIDS Industry: Agenda