Eliminating HIV & AIDS in India: A roadmap to zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination & zero AIDS-related deaths
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چکیده
In 2011, the World Health Organization Member States adopted a new global health sector strategy to implement initiatives to reduce HIV prevalence and AIDS-related deaths1. The United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) also targets to end AIDS as a public health threat by 20302. At the end of 2013, India had the third largest number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the world and accounted for about four out of ten PLHIV in Asia. There are 2.1 million PLHIV in India, of whom 790,000 are women3. Key populations at very high risk of HIV transmission are men who have sex with men (MSM) and people who inject drugs. These groups are nearly 20-30 folds higher at risk than in the general population (0.3%), closely followed by female sex workers and migrants3.
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