Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society Success in India is critical to worldwide polio eradication, since for many years India produced more than half of the world's new cases. For example, in the case of truckers and their helpers, condom use with non-regular sex partners increased by 18 percent in a single year, while the number of partners decreased from 46 percent to 36 percent. One market leader has already met the current standards, and the other major player will meet these criteria soon. More than 2000 retailers in the state will be trained over the next 12 months to motivate them to more actively promote condoms at the point of purchase. New linkages are also being established between these institutions and NGO grantees working in intervention areas, such as truck stops.
Trends show an increase in use of condoms with non-regular partners.
Due primarily to two large-scale immunization campaigns, in which approximately 125 million children were vaccinated in a single day, reported polio cases have dropped by 94 percent with reported cases totaling less than 1500 today, down from more than 24,000 in 1988.