A WHO study notes that While India has achieved impressive levels in food production, equitable distribution is still a distant dream. Chronic hunger still persists, but severe,nutrition related diseases have almost disappeared.

Diseases caused by severe malnutrition have been virtually eliminated.

Crops grown in micronutrientdeficient soils can lead to various types of illnesses.

Dipstick, an inexpensive and quick HIV test developed in the United States, is now being manufactured in India.

Finally, France's former Socialist prime minister Laurent Fabius, secretary of state for health Edmund Herve and social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix are to be tried in a parliamentary court in

Changing social attitudes and behaviour has helped in the control of AIDS.

Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.