India wakes up to AIDS
THE World Health Organisation reckons that India has 3m to 5m cases of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS. This means that India has more victims than any other Asian country. If the present trend continues, the numbers could double by 2000. Of 3.2m individuals tested by the government and considered to be at high risk, 2.2% were HIV-positive (10% of them in the state of Maharashtra). No comprehensive tests have been conducted for the population as a whole, so the figures for all of India are guesses.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “India wakes up to AIDS”
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