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India continues crackdown, dismissing hundreds of AIDS groups

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According to NACO officials, the contracts of the nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) were ended in two separate rounds within the past year. After the start of the third phase of India's National AIDS Control Program in 2007, NACO terminated the contracts of 172 NGOs because it considered them to be involved with issues that did not match its new program focus. Migrants and street children, for example, are no longer the primary focus of targeted interventions in prevention and treatment.

NACO shut down an additional 176 NGOs after an internal review conducted later in 2007, NACO's finance director Suresh Kumar confirmed to Nature Medicine. The NACO review recommended ending the contracts of corrupt or inefficient NGOs.

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