HIV Positive Cases Decrease in Kashmir

May 5, 2010

Submitted by Amit Pathania on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 10:01

It was recently told by the National AIDS Control Organization that the number

of HIV positive cases in Kashmir valley had been decreasing.

" The epidemic AIDS here is under control and Kashmir is the least hit area in

the country. Last time we collected 7800 samples from various quarters of the

state and none was found positive " , said Dr M A Wani, Director Health Services

and Project Director J & K State AIDS Prevention Control Society.

It was noted that last time the cases in the alley were 1.2% which has currently

come down to 0.3%.

It was assumed by NACO experts that 40,000 people would be infected with HIV in

next two years, if the killer virus went unchecked. They also assumed that

around 20,000 people would be killed in the State by the end of 2015 with this

disease.

The official statistics showed that 4846 HIV test samples taken in the year 2008

out of which only 3 persons were found positive, whereas in 2009, 4840 samples

were taken out of which none was found positive.

It was told by the Director that less HIV patients were there and the number was

not as big as 2.5 million HIV positive patients found in India.

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