New Delhi: The country has witnessed a 56 percent drop in HIV related cases in the last one decade, the government said on Tuesday.
"HIV infections have declined by 56 per cent during the last decade from 2.7 lakh in 2000 to 1.2 lakh in 2009 in our country," Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
Addressing an international HIV vaccine symposium in New Delhi, he said new evidence from the latest round of HIV Sentinel Surveillance shows a further decline in HIV prevalence among general population as well as high risk groups.
Emphasising on development of technologies to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease, Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Ashwani Kumar said that though number of new HIV infections continues to decline at current rate, there will still be more than 22 million new infections by 2015.
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam suggested developing vaccine for prevention of the disease on a nation mode.
"HIV infections have declined by 56 per cent during the last decade from 2.7 lakh in 2000 to 1.2 lakh in 2009 in our country," Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
Addressing an international HIV vaccine symposium in New Delhi, he said new evidence from the latest round of HIV Sentinel Surveillance shows a further decline in HIV prevalence among general population as well as high risk groups.
Emphasising on development of technologies to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease, Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Ashwani Kumar said that though number of new HIV infections continues to decline at current rate, there will still be more than 22 million new infections by 2015.
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Former president APJ Abdul Kalam suggested developing vaccine for prevention of the disease on a nation mode.
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