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General Forum: Current 'Affairs' | | "95% drop in new HIV cases in India"-A False claim. | |
| With 28,000 new people infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2003-04 compared to 520,000 a year before, the number of HIV positive patients was estimated to be 5.13 million at the end of 2003-04.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, however, said Wednesday that the government would not show any complacency in the fight against AIDS, which has killed 1,114 people in 2004 in India compared to 1,514 a year ago.
There were 103,000 known cases of full-blown AIDS in 2004.
"As far as the government is concerned the number, 28,000 or 280,000, is not of importance. We will go all out against HIV/AIDS irrespective of the numbers," Ramadoss told reporters here.
He said the focus would be on Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, where HIV prevalence was high.
"The success till now is the result of a concerted effort to create awareness about the disease and the stringent monitoring and surveillance at the grassroots," Ramdoss said.
Posted by: Mr. Vachaspathi V At: 26, May 2005 9:30:06 AM IST
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