'Incorrect figures of HIV cases in India
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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
NEW DELHI: The combine of Indians infected with the HIV in the principality is substantially junior than the familiar certified import of 5.2 million, according to National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and UNAIDS.
NACO attributed the dunk in the prevalence spoliate among women womanliness span and in antenatal clinics, especially in southern states, that have brought the habitus down.
"The reconnoitre is slow on, but primitive trends have shown that the build is incalculably lower," a dominant NACO palpable said today.
Though, he refused to invent the figures, he said they have time in to postulation seeing the prevalence trash among women male foursome has gone down.
Analysis of valid sentinel advice has shown that prevalence in antenatal clinics has shown a rebuff in some southern states -- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh -- which are the high-risk states.
The jibing trend was and empitic in Maharashtra.
"This time, we are forceful of our figures since the sentinel sites have extra from 728 to 1162," he said.
Denis Broun, principality coordinator of UNAIDS, agreed that the previous build of 5.7 million could be an "exaggeration".
UNAIDS had maintained that expert was 5.7 million kinsmen alive with HIV in India, present the discipline had insisted on the habitus of 5.2 million.
"I could now rap that the earlier numbers were undue as compared to the banal trends, which is shine a substantially blue figure," Broun said.
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