Saturday 30 November 2013

Injecting Drug Users More at the Risk of Getting Affected by AIDS/HIV

Though the numbers affected by HIV in India have reduced, injecting drug users are still at a higher risk of falling prey to this disease, a report revealed. According to the latest report by the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO), while HIV prevalence in India among the general population stands at 0.40 percent, HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs is as high as 7.17 percent. Experts put the blame for the high figure in India on the poor ...

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