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Article

9 Aug 2006

Author:
Peter Wonacott & Marilyn Chase, Wall Street Journal

In India, Call Centers Warn Young Workers About HIV Risk

As India grapples with a growing AIDS problem, activists and industry executives have identified the country's 1.3 million call center and outsourcing workers as a surprising new risk group, alongside truckers, migrant workers and prostitutes...some companies in India are establishing in-house programs to educate their workers about the disease. [refers to initiatives by Standard Chartered, iEnergizer, Intel, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Ford, Tata, Apollo Tyres, Reliance Industries, Modicare, ZMQ Software Systems]