When India challenged global HIV data and won
Last week, Union Health Ministry sources stated that India will take up “glaring anomalies’’ in a World Health Organisation report on excess mortality estimates associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. “They are quoting different figures when we ourselves don’t have any data on deaths,” the then health minister C.P. “New, more accurate estimates of HIV indicate that approximately 2.5 million people in India were living with HIV in 2006, with national adult HIV prevalence of 0.36%.” These estimates brought down the global projection of HIV cases by a whopping 16%. “The information was either reported directly by the States through official reports and automatic vital registration, or by journalists who obtained death registration information through Right to Information requests,” says the WHO paper.
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