HIV cases in India drops by 50%: UN

New Delhi: Nov 24, 2010

India has shown a 50 per cent drop in the number of new HIV infections in the last 10 years as the AIDS epidemic is beginning to reverse globally with a decline in the newly-infected HIV cases and AIDS-related deaths, a United Nations report says. The 2010 UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic shows about 33.3 million people were estimated to be living with HIV at the end on 2009 with 2.3 million living in India, reports IANS. 

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