AIDS among Indian women likely to increase

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AIDS among Indian women likely to increase:

Press Trust of India.New Delhi, September 19

India is likely to see increasing levels of HIV infection among women

as they virtually have no control over their husbands' sexual

behaviour, a report said.

The infection is also spreading among married women with a single

partner, the 'India Country Report on Population and Development',

brought out by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, said.

" The future will see increasing levels of HIV infection among Indian

women, who, largely monogamous themselves, have virtually no control

over their husbands' sexual behaviour, " the report said.

As a large number of women become infected, the number of children

infected through vertical transmission was also likely to increase, it

said.

It had been suggested that that if effective prevention efforts were

not implemented immediately and sustained over long time, the infected

people in India could reach an alarming number in a short time, the

report said.

Though Mumbai and Chennai had been the main focus of HIV/AIDS, the

disease was no longer restricted to the major metropolitan areas, it

said adding it was spreading to rural areas, carried for example by

migrant labourers and workers such as lorry drivers

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