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Save the society from an AIDS epidemic: Indian Public libraries in the current
perspective.
Maitrayee Ghosh
www.ifla.org, August 22, 2005.
ABSTRACT
Today Indian society is at high risks. AIDS-the most devastating disease humankind has ever faced become a conflagration on the Indian sub continent and nearly six million people in the country are estimated to be HIV-positive. There is a felt need for providing health information services through public libraries to the illiterate rural population in India, who are increasingly making themselves vulnerable to HIV /AIDS. Today’s challenge is to reinvent the public libraries to respond to community needs and explores the avenues created by ICT enabled networking processes in providing HIV/AIDS information to
unprivileged population in India. It concludes with a number of recommendations that are intended to
address the core problems and thereby improve the overall situation.
