Patna High Court notice to NACO & BSACS

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HC worried over rise in HIV+ cases

PATNA: The Patna High Court on Friday directed the National Aids Control

Organisation (NACO) to state what steps should be taken up by the Bihar

State Aids Control Society (BSACS) in view of alarming rise in the number of

HIV+ cases in the state.

The order was passed on a PIL of Alok Kumar Sinha who submitted that only 27

cases of HIV positive were detected in the state in 2002 while the number of

such cases has gone up to 23,000 now.

The court said NACO, BSACS and NGOs need to make joint efforts to control Aids

in the state. Advocate general P K Shahi said the matter is serious and he would

take instructions from the state officials concerned in this regard.

The petitioner alleged financial irregularities and lack of willpower on the

part of authorities to fill up vacant posts in BSACS as the causes of rise in

HIV+ cases in the state.

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