India's Border Guarding Force (BGF), generally called Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), has received an intelligence report that Pakistan's Inter-State Intelligence (ISI) is planning to spread AIDS virus among the Indian army personnel. Indian military officials said that ISI would take the help of some militant organization for the implementation its plan. They also asked army personnel and members of para-military forces to frustrate the ISI plan by practising safe sex.

Meas My, a HIV-positive Cambodian man jailed for 10 years, as his wife charged him for having sex without using condom. The 40-year-old man was arrested in January last year after his wife complained to police about his refusal to use a condom during sex.

A 12-year-old boy, who tested HIV positive last week, was tied to his bed at a hospital in the northern Indian city of Meerut. The HIV positive boy had been in a local children's jail for the last three months after committing a robbery. On asking why the boy was punished for being HIV positive, hospital management answered they were not equipped to handle AIDS patients.

As part of a project to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in India, prostitutes who are routinely checked at a sexual health clinic are being awarded with discount shopping cards. The United Nation's AIDS-prevention agency recently said India has the highest number of people infected with HIV worldwide, with approximately 5. 7 million people living with the virus.

Jamaica decides against handing out condoms in prisons, saying it encourages sexual activity. However, the Health Ministry says condoms would reduce the spread of AIDS in prisons. But the National Security Ministry, which runs penal institutions, believes it would lead to more sex among inmates. An official tells Reuters that violence has occurred over suggestions that men have sex with men in prisons. Former head of prisons, John Prescod, suggested the distribution of condoms in prisons in 1997. But the mere suggestion resulted in violence between prisoners suspected of being homosexual and others who said they were heterosexuals. Five inmates were killed in the battles and 27 others injured in six Jamaican prisons.