More than 600 AIDS patients in UP

August 21, 2002

Press Trust of India. Lucknow, August 21. As many as 681 people have been

identified as suffering from AIDS in Uttar Pradesh so far, according to state

Health Minister Raja Mahendra Aridaman Singh.

In a written reply to BJP member Shyam Deo Roychowdhary, Singh informed the

Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday that efforts were being made to create awarness among

the masses about the dreaded disease. He also said that the state had been

provided with about Rs 40 lakh from the year 1998-99 to 2001-02 to check the

spread of the disease and the state AIDS control society had conducted several

control programmes across the state.

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Rajesh Buddhadev Dr. MD

E-mail: buddhadev@...

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