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...force behind Ek Pal (Hindi for One Moment) is Karamjeet Ballagan, a 41-year-old ethnic Indian health worker in Birmingham, home to a big South Asian population. When Ballagan alerted community leaders that the HIV rate?though still small?was rising among South Asians and that people needed to be educated about sex and drugs, she ran into a wall of opposition. Culturally conservative and religiously orthodox, they refused to acknowledge the problem. "They thought I was imposing Western values and encouraging young people to have sex," says Ballagan. "But I wanted them to face reality...
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