Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization with headquarters in New York and supports a global network of regional and country offices. It conducts research in HIV/AIDS, poverty, gender, youth and reproductive health. The council has been working in India since 1960s and had opened its office in New Delhi in 1994 to carry out the Asia and Near East Operations Research Program. Currently the New Delhi Office oversees the programs in India, Bangladesh and Vietnam.
The Population Council is synthesizing and analyzing the wealth of data collected by Avahan to gain insight that will guide future initiatives for HIV prevention in India and other countries with similar concentrated epidemics.