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Telangana is presently providing aesculapian services to 1.14 lakh radical surviving with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) done a web of 127 investigating centres and 33 Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centres crossed the State, Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha said connected Thursday (April 9, 2026). Speaking astatine an consciousness programme held astatine Durgam Cheruvu cablegram span successful Hyderabad, the Minister said the authorities continues to connection escaped testing, attraction and medicine to each patients.
The Minister added that stigma and favoritism against radical surviving with HIV stay cardinal challenges, driven mostly by misinformation. Stressing the request for societal acceptance, helium said affected individuals indispensable beryllium treated with dignity and provided adjacent rights. He added that nether the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017, favoritism against specified individuals is simply a punishable offence.
