An HIV scare looms large over Mumbai, the most populous city of India, as regular supply of medicines, condoms and syringes has nearly dried up. The reason for this agony goes to lack of availablity of funding. Central government has not given funding  since April.

Mumbai is host to around 4, 00, 000 HIV patients. The present situation directly affect HIV community in the city. Although HIV prevalance in the general population is on decline, the graph has only been rising for the high-risk groups. High risk groups includes: female sex workers, transgenders, MSM, intravenous drug users, truckers and migrants.

HIV prevalance among female sex workers is as high as 27%, 18%in IDUs, 12%in MSMs and 30% in the transgender population.