EDITORIAL
AIDS/HIV
AIDS in India
YRGCARE, VHS, Taramani, Chennai, India
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor S Solomon
YRGCARE, VHS, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India; suniti@yrgcare.org
Contributing factors to the epidemic are discussed and suggestions made for its management.
Abbreviations: ARV, antiretroviral; NVP, nevirapine; STI, sexually transmitted infection
Keywords: HIV/AIDS
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HIV infection in India was first detected in 1986 among female sex workers in Chennai.1 Today, with an estimated 5.134 million infections,2 India is home to the second largest population of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA). This article describes the state of the epidemic in India, the main contributing factors, and suggestions for changes that should be made in the management of the epidemic.
The executive director of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, suggested that in 2004, India overtook South Africa in having the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world.3 The true prevalence of HIV in India is still debatable. Some of the available estimates of incidence have been carried out among sex workers in Maharashtra (22.1 per 100 person years) and drug users in Chennai (4.53%).4,5 There is an urgent need for more studies estimating incidence of HIV in
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