India makes strides in HIV prevention. Still using condoms as balloons however.

Before we have sex, please put on this balloon. HIV infection rates have fallen by a third in the worst hit regions of south India according to recent research. The figures show safe sex awareness campaigns can have a dramatic impact. Still the problem is not small with more than five million people are living with HIV in India, and 75% of them in the southern states.

Researcher Professor Prabhat Jha stated, "There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India's Aids problem will explode - as it did in southern Africa - but we now have direct evidence of something positive."

This is all good news. The only thing troubling us is the picture above with 2 men blowing up condoms. We hope that sex education in India is not about trying to distract men from having sex by having them play with condom balloons. As that is probably not sustainable.