Relief for India over new HIV figures
India has fewer cases of HIV-Aids than previously thought and has almost certainly dropped behind South Africa as the country with the highest caseload.
UNAids, the United Nations agency, estimated last year that India had 5.7 million HIV cases compared with about 5.5 million in South Africa. The Indian National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) put the figure at 5.2 million and some Indian officials accused Western Aids experts of exaggeration. Now a new study conducted by... read full article here
