Over 2.30 per cent of Mizoram’s 10.91 lakh population is infected with HIV/AIDS. The disease has so far claimed 3,506 lives in the state since October 1990 when the first HIV-positive case was reported Aizawl: The percentage of HIV/AIDS incidents in Mizoram is 10 times higher than that of the national average, an official said on Tuesday. “Mizoram now has …
On World AIDS day on December 1, close to 500 taxi and bike riders took part in an awareness drive where they undertook to distribute free condoms to passengers. Initiated by the Mizoram State AIDS Control Society and AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the drive kickstarted in the capital city of Aizwal. The Mizoram State AIDS Control Society ’s data reported the …
Mizoram had the highest adult HIV prevalence among states in India last year with the infection being detected in 2.04 per cent of the people whose blood samples were tested, a Mizoram State AIDS Control Society official said on Wednesday. Mizoram was one of the five states where the number of new infection cases increased, though such cases are declining …
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