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Is the HIV epidemic that has swept through certain regions and groups in India and Pakistan affecting Asians in the UK, as Africa's epidemic has done?
UK Asians and HIV
Many health professionals concerned with the UK's south Asian communities feared the worst. One is Shivananda Khan, who runs the Naz Foundation, an international HIV organisation that supports Asians and other ethnic minority groups living here.
"We braced ourselves for an explosion. There is a lot of movement between the UK and the subcontinent. But it hasn't really happened so far.
"South Asians living here tend to move to and from the rural areas of India, where the epidemic is not that prevalent. It's much more

Photo: Courtesy: Britstock Picture Library and NAZ Project

so in urban areas. If it does take hold