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The younker should support utmost caution against the information of HIV and support a steadfast manner arsenic the latest accusation gathered by the Kerala AIDS Control Society shows that caller cases of HIV successful Kerala are expanding astatine an alarming complaint amongst the youth, Health Minister Veena George said connected Monday.
Inaugurating the National Youth Day here, Ms. George said that arsenic per the disposable figures, caller cases of HIV among those successful the 15-24 twelvemonth property group, which was 9% successful 2022, had risen to 14.2% successful 2024. This fig was 15.4% betwixt April and October successful 2025. She said that HIV consciousness and prevention activities successful the State needed to beryllium focussed amongst the youth.
Kerala is simply a comparatively debased prevalence State arsenic acold arsenic HIV corruption is concerned. The nationalist big prevalence of HIV is 0.20, whereas this was 0.07 successful Kerala. However, fixed the precocious complaint of inter-State migration into Kerala and with a batch of younker from the State going overseas oregon to neighbouring States and backmost for enactment oregon higher studies, the State is susceptible to accrued transmission of the virus.
In 2022-23 (financial year), caller HIV cases were reported amongst 1,183 individuals successful Kerala. In 2023-24, this was 1,263 and successful 2024-25, this was 1,213. In 2025, from April-October, 819 persons had been reported to person contracted caller infections.
Of the full of 4,477 caller cases of HIV reported successful the State successful the past 3 years, 3,393 were men, 1,065 were women, and 19 were transgender individuals. The fig of large women who contracted the corruption successful the State successful the past 3 years was 90.
HIV tin beryllium transmitted done unsafe oregon unprotected intersexual relations, done sharing of needles, by receiving unsafe humor transfusions and antenatally, from parent to child.
The State has been adopting the strategy of investigating the maximum fig of radical who person been done high-risk behaviour oregon circumstances which made them susceptible to contracting HIV and springiness them due attraction arsenic aboriginal arsenic possible.
Early and accordant antiretroviral therapy (ART) tin trim the viral load to an undetectable level, truthful that determination is efficaciously zero hazard of intersexual transmission of the microorganism from the infected idiosyncratic to his/her partner. Early diagnosis and attraction frankincense makes the corruption untransmittable and allows the infected idiosyncratic to pb a steadfast life. KSACS has been systematically addressing HIV prevention, control, attraction and the attraction of the HIV-affected, Ms. George added.
She advised the younker to beryllium the ambassadors of steadfast living, done steadfast habits. The State has present taken up a wellness mission, encouraging radical to devour healthy, workout moderately, signifier self-care and get due sleep, she added.
The Additional Chief Secretary (Health), Rajan Khobraghade, presided implicit the function.
