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There are astir 16 lakh registered HIV cases successful India, and fixed the colonisation of the country, this fig should beryllium astir 25 lakh, said Additional Secretary and Director General of National AIDS Control Organisation Rakesh Gupta, urging each the States to place the remaining affected individuals.
Speaking astatine the ‘Mission AIDS Suraksha’ store successful Vijayawada connected Wednesday, Dr. Rakesh Gupta stressed that HIV patients should beryllium identified done a three-tier strategy. The extremity is to alteration the state into ‘Suraksha India’ by controlling the dispersed of HIV, and this tin beryllium done erstwhile State governments and Union Territories collectively enactment towards identifying radical surviving with HIV, helium said.
The authorities should besides guarantee that patients instrumentality their medications regularly, arsenic this would trim the viral load successful their bodies and bring alleviation to affected families and assistance trim the dispersed of HIV, Dr. Rakesh Gupta said.
In Andhra Pradesh, estimates suggest that determination should beryllium 3,10,000 HIV cases, but determination are presently 276,000 cases. It is important to place the remaining cases instantly to supply aesculapian attraction and cheque the spread, helium said, giving the authorities a deadline of December 1, which is observed arsenic World AIDS Day.”
Similar workshops person been organised successful Assam and Karnataka, helium added.
Meanwhile, State AIDS Control Society Project Director K. Neelakantha Reddy said 89% of estimated cases successful the State person been identified and 86% of them are receiving treatment. He urged territory officials to instrumentality enactment successful enactment with the Central guidelines.
District Collectors, District Medical and Health Officers, Deputy Collectors, Joint Collectors, AIDS power officers, administrative officials and from 23 districts participated successful the workshop.
