07-08-2007, 05:10 PM
<b>Number of India HIV cases cut in half</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI - India has roughly 2.5 million people infected with HIV, less than half the number of cases that previous studies estimated, the health minister and international AIDS experts said Friday.
The drastically reduced numbers come from expanded surveys and an improved methodology, providing a far more accurate portrait of Indiaâs HIV epidemic, said Health Minister Anubani Ramadoss.
An earlier U.N. study estimated 5.7 million HIV cases, which would have been the highest total in the world. According to the new data, India, which has a population of 1.1 billion, has fewer HIV cases than South Africa and Nigeria.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI - India has roughly 2.5 million people infected with HIV, less than half the number of cases that previous studies estimated, the health minister and international AIDS experts said Friday.
The drastically reduced numbers come from expanded surveys and an improved methodology, providing a far more accurate portrait of Indiaâs HIV epidemic, said Health Minister Anubani Ramadoss.
An earlier U.N. study estimated 5.7 million HIV cases, which would have been the highest total in the world. According to the new data, India, which has a population of 1.1 billion, has fewer HIV cases than South Africa and Nigeria.
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