Thanks for the story "Drive-through sex" (#31) by Hemlata Rai who seems to have put in a lot of work to uncover the sex worker situation in the tarai specially in Family Health Inter-national's (FHI) project area, and backing it up with indicators taken from the New Era survey. The work under FHI's HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease prevention also includes a media campaign, treatment, social marketing of condoms which could not have all fit into a single article. We hope you will follow it up in future issues. The article gives a strong indication that the sex business is booming in the tarai, and this is a dangerous pointer to the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission. There is some HIV/AIDS and STD prevention work being done with sex workers which were not highlighted in Ms Rai's article. We strongly feel this information is necessary to share with the public. Next time?

Deepak Deo Bhatta
Family Health International
Kathmandu