Number of HIV cases in children jumps 2,000 percent in India
India, Jul 31, 2009
India's health minister announced Wednesday (July 29) that expanded testing across the country over the past three years shows a 2,000 percent jump in the number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases among children. According to CNN, Indian health officials counted 2,253 children in India with HIV in November 2006, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told the Indian parliament. He said that the number went up to a "cumulative total" of 52,973 in May this year. The Indo-Asian News Service noted that Tamil Nadu state leads the list with some 2,650 new cases. CNN reports that the large increase in the number of confirmed cases may be due to expanding testing for the virus. India currently has 217 facilities for HIV/AIDS treatment and 5,155 counseling and testing centers. Indian officials have said that mother-to-child transmission was a major source of infection among children. In 2008, 19,986 pregnant women, among more than 4 million who were tested, were found to be HIV positive, and of those, 10,719 received treatment to prevent transmission to their babies, CNN reported Azad as saying. Despite the number, Azad insisted that overall, HIV prevalence in the country had decreased from 0.45 percent in 2002 to 0.34 percent in 2007. He said that currently, 758,698 HIV-positive patients are being treated under the country's AIDS control program and more than 232,908 AIDS patients, including 14,474 children, are receiving free treatment at the designated facilities, CNN reported.
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