Babies can now be screened with HIV. Previously, we had to wait two years after the birth of a baby to know about HIV.
Currently, seven stations in India have HIV screening of newborns. Only such a center in Bangalore at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (Nimhans). March 2010 and January 2011, 2,098 babies were subjected to Nimhans HIV and about 10% of them are positive.
Infants who tested positive for positive mothers, said Dr. V. Ravi, Registrar, Professor and Head, Department of Neurovirology, National AIDS Reference Laboratory, NIMHANS, on the occasion of the Festival of Science at Bangalore University.
Incidents of HIV is highest in southern Africa, followed by Southeast Asia and India. Dr. Ravi said: "There are about 2,200,000 to 2,500,000 of the population with HIV in India. However, since 2002, HIV prevalence is coming down with the infection rate fell from 2,700,000 to 2,270,000. The sex workers, people with sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuals are vulnerable to infection. "
"In India, HIV is high among the countries of South India. Approximately 22% of HIV affects people of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka 11%, 20% and 10% in Maharashtra state of Tamil Nadu. The remaining 37 % in different parts of India. " To date, about 4% of HIV-affected populations in India are children, "said Dr. Ravi.
Dr. Ravi said that the anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment is possible. "Art is provided free to 290 centers across India. About four lakh people take ART for life in India, "he said. Yet with a little resistance affected developing countries to ART, is a second line of treatment is over.
National aids Control Programme (NACO) to spend about ¤ 1,200 crore on the prevention of AIDS. However, this disease can be avoided by following simple principles. "Promoting healthy blood donors sex, using condoms, delaying sexual intercourse and taking prompt treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and screening can not solve this problem to a large extent," he said.
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