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The Plan panel has pitched for legal sanctity to prostitution and homosexuality to bring the sections vulnerable to the deadly HIV virus under the purview of the AIDS scanner.
Fear of legal action pushes underground the two high-risk categories of HIV/AIDS — sex workers and homosexuals. It, the Plan panel says, puts them out of the reach of ''social interventions'' to check the killer disease, which is threatening to take epidemic proportions...
The Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act deals with prostitution while homosexuality remains a crime under section 377 of IPC.
The suggestions to remove these legal constraints, called the ''impediments in the anti-AIDS programme'', were made officially to the PM in the ongoing exercise to prepare the 11th Plan paper.
Pitching for shedding the taint of criminality from the two groups, Syeda Hameed, Planning Commission member, told TOI, ''We should not regard prostitutes as criminals and homosexuality needs to be viewed with greater sympathy.''
Morality, however, may continue to underline the subject. The views for change are at odds with government opinion. The home ministry recently opposed a PIL in SC, seeking ''decriminalisation of homosexuality'', saying public opinion and Indian societal context was against the deletion of Section 377...
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