The Hindustan Times: Annual infections of HIV have increased in Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Uttarakhand while Bihar, West Bengal, Telangana, Delhi, Jharkhand and Haryana have seen a decline in infection lower than the national average Has India won the war against HIV? At best, some skirmishes have been won, but the National AIDS Control Programme needs to pull out all the stops to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 by reducing new infections by 75% by 2020 against the 2010 baseline.
New infections have gone down, but not enough. Between 2010 and 2017, annual new infections fell from 120,000 to 87,580, AIDS-related deaths from 160,000 to 69,110, and people living with HIV from 2.3 million.
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