Mumbai’s most vulnerable pockets are under an HIV threat. There’s a scarcity of condoms syringes and medicines. Twenty-one NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and 13 community-based organizations (CBOs) that handle a total of 52 intervention projects for the city's population at highest risk of contracting and spreading HIV have not received central government funds since April. To top it former sex workers-turned-outreach workers and peer educators who have had to go back to their old ways to support their families because they’ve stopped receiving their salaries. Due to the fund crisis most NGOs and CBOs have been forced to cut corners and