Since independence, a vast infrastructure for health oriented schemes has been created in the country, but it needs to be functionally optimized, by harnessing all community resources for health, so as to meet the growing demand of population. Though the country has effective control over all kinds of diseases yet unfortunately it has not devised any concrete remedial measures to keep control of the latest disease AIDS - which is creating havoc in the life of the common man.
The latest killer disease that is creating nightmares for medical experts is the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Its terrifying spread has earned it the title of the ‘pandemic” or an epidemic out of control. According to experts, India’s position’ is quite grim and if left unchecked it could wreak social and economic devastation. In the absence of medical defenses against AIDS, public education is the only weapon in the fight to limit the spread of infection. Only by influencing personal behavior and life style can we hope to minimize the ravages of AIDS throughout. 

The need of the hour is for dissemination of basic information in simple and intelligible terms about the causes of AIDS and, the avenues of infection, the essential precautions to be taken, the facilities for treatment and all other related matters. The public must be alerted without generating hysteria about the real menace of the AIDS epidemic and the measures required to combat it.

The internal parts of the human body come in contact with bacteria, protozoa and viruses, etc. via air, water, food or through an open wound. These micro-organisms not only get nutrition from our body, but also cause undesirable effects on our health. The immune system of the body is responsible for fighting these effects (which we call ‘diseases’). The ‘horribleness’ of AIDS lies in the fact that it destroys the immune system itself, thereby exposing the body to all kinds of diseases and infections.