International Conference on Alcohol & HIV
Publication Date
08 October 2010
Publication Author
Aditya Mukherjee
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The Times of India reports on the Second International Conference on Alcohol and HIV. Researchers, including the International Center for Research on Women’s Ravi Verma, have called for multilevel community-based approaches and a focus on gender for combating pervasive alcohol use and the resulting HIV transmission.
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