Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

SAGETRACK

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Health Management
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Mohammed, S.
Right arrow Articles by Panakadan, S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

HIV/AIDS in India: Problem and Response

Shaukat Mohammed

National AIDS Control Organisation, Chanderlok Building, 36 Janpath, New Delhi 110 001

Salil Panakadan

National AIDS Control Organisation, Chanderlok Building, 36 Janpath, New Delhi 110 001

The current prevalence of HIV in India is estimated to be around 4. 6 million infections, 74.8 per cent of those infected being men and 85.3 per cent of infections occurring through the sexual route. Analysis of data from biological and behavioural surveillance from across the country brings out the fact that the epidemic is heterogeneously distributed and is spreading not onlygeographically, but also shows increasing rates in different risk groups, while continuing to affect the general population.

The epidemic is in an advanced stage in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kar nataka, Manipur and Nagaland. Nationwide efforts have been initiatedduring the last decade through a comprehensive National AIDS Control Programme. The response has been participatory, multi-sectoral, evidence based and with a number ofsuccess stories. This gives us hope that a sustained high-quality response will contain and manage the epidemic and its consequences.

Journal of Health Management, Vol. 5, No. 2, 191-203 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/097206340300500204
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?