HIV infections fall by a third in southern India

New Delhi, March 31, 2006: HIV infections in southern India have fallen by a third over a four-year period, raising hopes that the tide of the disease could be reversed in one of the country's worst-hit regions.
A study published in the Lancet looked at data from the four south Indian states that account for 75% of India's 5.1 million people infected with the virus.

The research, by a joint Indian-Canadian team, tracked HIV prevalence among 204,050 young women and nearly 60,000 men between 2000 and 2004 in the north and south of the country. Doctors reported HIV prevalence among women aged 15 to 24 in the states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh had fallen from 1.7% to 1.1% in four years. New infections fell by almost 35% between 2000 and 2004.

SOURCE: The Guardian

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