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The prevention programme will focus on "saturating the estimated four million high-risk groups" in India, the NACO review said. This includes commercial sex workers, intravenous drug users and men having sex with men.

Migrant workers and truck drivers have been shifted from high-risk to the "12 million highly vulnerable population".

Taking a cue from the last census data, the government has also included a "large number of young men and women in the general community who constitute 40 percent of the country's population" in the highly vulnerable category.

NACP III plans to access 95 percent of the country's young through the ministries of youth affairs, human resource development, women and child development and the ministry of social justice and empowerment.

There will be a huge push to testing, with services for all different categories undergoing voluntary testing being merged. "Like shutting the tap rather than mopping the floor," said Jaya Sridhar, a medical practitioner and activist.

Every year, the government wants to extend HIV/AIDS testing to at least 21 million, and expects to achieve this goal at least by 2011 and proposes to set up 5,000 new testing centres.

It wants the private sector to contribute in another 21 million tests even as 150,000 pregnant women will be extended testing and follow-up services with an allocation of Rs.80 billion.

Interventions through community-based organisations will be increased from less than five percent now to 50 percent by 2011, said the government.

The third National AIDS Programme Implementation Plan was evolved through consultations between 14 working groups, e-forums, civil society organisations, NGOs and development partners, including a World Bank pre-appraisal team.

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