Clarify figures on AIDS: VHP to Global Fund head

Launching a strong protest against reported remarks by the executive director of Global Fund that HIV/AIDS "will grow faster among the Hindu population than in Muslims in India", the Vishwa Hindu Parishad today sought a clarification from the agency.

Launching a strong protest against reported remarks by the executive director of Global Fund that HIV/AIDS "will grow faster among the Hindu population than in Muslims in India", the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Wednesday sought a clarification from the agency.

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"We call upon Richard Feachem, executive director of the International funding agency, to disclose the regions where the study was conducted and the percentage of the population of Hindus and Muslims that was subjected to tests," VHP's International Working President, Ashok Singhal, said.

Feachem was reported to have made such remarks about the spread of HIV/AIDS at a press conference in Paris recently.

The picture projected by him (Feachem) certainly puts the country in a bad light and he should give the details which formed the basis of his "controversial" remarks, Singhal said.

Analysing the disease on religious parameters could prove counter-productive and efforts to prevent the spread of the disease might go waste," he said.