MARGAO: The coastal talukas of Mormugao (18.1%) and Salcete (13.7%) in South and Bardez (14.6%) and Tiswadi (9.4%) in North reported majority of the cases of HIV infection in the year 2011.

MARGAO: Health Minister, Laxmikant Parsekar has said the government has accepted the challenge to achieve by 2015 zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination of HIV patients and zero AIDS-related

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat ranks fifth in the country in terms of people being treated for HIV, and also for the number of children being treated.

SHILLONG: 49 deaths including three children since 2002 due to HIV/AIDS in Meghalaya, coupled with the increase in the number of affected persons over the years reveal that the AIDS cases are incr

Overall decline in adult new-HIV infections, annual AIDS-related deaths, says NACO report.

There is a good news, India’s AIDS figures have further fallen down.

India recorded around 60,000 fewer deaths due to HIV in 2011 compared to 2007 while the overall number of people living with HIV has fallen by almost 1.7 lakhs during the same period.

"No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic."
-Colin Powell

The state, which has so far witnessed 271 deaths of AIDS patients, has nearly 3,500 HIV patients, including 253 new cases detected from April to October this year.

With the HIV/AIDS epidemic showing signs of reversal globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and countries are now working towards zero new HIV infections, zero deaths from AIDS-related illne