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Vishwas GaitondeDr Suniti Solomon documented 1st HIV cases in India,1986. Her pioneering work pushed the govt to act
In her obituary, The New Yorker wrote: “As HIV swept across the world, in the mid-1980s, no country possessed a more menacing mix of conditions, predilections, & the kind of poverty likely to hasten an AIDS epidemic than India…Many researchers predicted a crisis unlike those in any other nation. But it never happened — partly because India had Suniti Solomon."
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