Four trains dubbed the "Red Ribbon Express" will bring HIV awareness and prevention messages throughout India beginning on Monday, its Independence Day. The train carriages will feature prevention posters and messages, and artists will perform skits and musicals stressing AIDS prevention at each of several stops. Medical experts and counselors are also participants in the journey, which will begin from Kanyakumari on the Indian peninsula, Jammu in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Jabalpur in Rajasthan and Guwahati in Assam. "The initiative has been taken by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan and the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation," said NYKS's zone director, M. Balasubramanian. UNICEF and the National AIDS Control Organization are funding the project, he said. In south India, the train will travel for six months, stopping at 90 sites in four states.

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