What is the current HIV status in India? Are the steps taking by govt is sufficient?
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Well First of all i would say this is a very good question. But i think the status in India is getting worse every day, i just read accoding to a survey it is increasing by 10% every year so it means if it continue at the same level, then in 10 years everyone in the county will be HIV positive. Thats Terrible. About the steps taken by govt, they are doing nothing, let me give you a very good example, i myself is 19 yr old guy from Delhi and i have sex every week with a new girl and i think this is gonna continue. But no one ever came to me asking for HIV check up.  I think the government should make these checkups necessarry for everyone betweenthe age of 18-28. And there is ofcourse a lot to do.\nHope it will give you a answer you were looking for.
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they have to do both. You can always call them up to confirm that they test for HIV I and HIV II
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There are a lot of symptoms that can be associated with HIV and/or AIDS, but the only way to be completely sure is to get tested.
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No, HIV needs a live body to survive.  Once someone has died, the virus will die soon after.
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by getting HIV.  AIDS is the symptom
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Karnataka Health Promotion Trust is an NGO that targets public health problems in the Indian state of Karnataka.\n\nKarnataka is one of the six States where the prevalence of HIV/AIDS cases was the highest. While 90 per cent of HIV-infected cases in the State were owing to unprotected sex with multiple partners, the remaining infections were contracted owing to blood transfusion without proper tests and use of the same syringe for different people. A migrant population and proximity to States with a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS cases are the main reasons for north Karnataka districts becoming vulnerable to the epidemic, \n\nKarnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT) was set up as a partnership between Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) and the University of Manitoba, Canada in the year 2003.\n\nKHPT is the State Lead Partner in Karnataka for Avahan, the India AIDS initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is implementing the Avahan-funded, Sankalp project for upscaling the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Programme in the State.\n\nThrough Sankalp, KHPT has successfully integrated the Gates-funded project with the State’s HIV and AIDS programme. Sankalp focuses on HIV Prevention among vulnerable populations like women in sex work and high-risk men in 18 districts of Karnataka in close partnership with other non-governmental organizations.
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There needs to be more education particular in third world countries about the possible consequences of unsafe sex - HIV/AIDS being one of them.\n\nIn developed countries, try to stop needle sharing between drug users to bring down the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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HIV has no obvious symptoms.  The only way to detect it is by a blood test.\nAIDS is usually diagnosed when a person develops certain opportunistic infections not seen in people with healthy immune systems.  Kaposi's sarcoma, pneumocystis carinii, shingles, fungal infections.  The person also is more likely to catch colds and flu that run a longer course than is to be expected.
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64,631,595\n\nnote: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
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If your talking broadly, Africa is the #1 leading country with AIDS/HIV. As far as locally, anywhere. That's the scary thing about today. Any one could look squeaky clean on the outside and be infested on the inside. That's why protection, manogamy, and abstinence are so highly suggested.
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not valid at all. there are tens of thousands of studies that reinforce the idea that HIV is the cause of AIDS. the virusmyth people are only serving to weaken HIV prevention efforts by destroying the public trust in health providers (public, private and otherwise).\n\nthe National Institutes of Health have a factsheet to repsond to the HIV denialists (who rank down there with Holocaust deniers in terms of credibility).\n\nhttp://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm Read it and think it over.
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NonGovernmentalOrganizationS and HIV/AIDS awareness : http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/business/2003/0107hivbiz.htm\nHundreds of thousands of volunteers and churches are additional sources. Good Luck.
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An estimated 5.1 million HIV-positive people live in India, and some experts say the number of HIV cases in the country could reach 20 million within a decade.
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The only way to identify someone carrying HIV is through a medical test.  You can't look at someone and say "That person has AIDS" - even someone who looks sickly may have something else, like cancer.  \n\nThe ELISA test is usually performed first.  It looks for HIV antibodies.  However, it can throw false positives, so positive ELISA tests are followed with the more expensive but more accurate Western Blot test.  \n\nThere are also preliminary tests that use saliva and other fluids for a quick result, but a firm diagnosis of HIV infection is only given upon the positive result from a Western Blot test.
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Until HIV has manifested itself into full blown AIDS, you won't know unless you get tested.  I believe everyone should be tested yearly for the HIV virus.
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I know that for years now there has been legislature passed and then revoked for manditory AIDS testing in the US for people in high risk areas, ie. prostitutes, drug abusers, health care workers, etc.  But I dont' believe it has yet officially passed.  A few months ago I read where Bill Clinton wanted mandatory testing for high risk countries...I don't know what came of it though.  Here is the article if you want to read it.\n\nIf you have a baby now at my docs office you have to have an HIV test done.  I don't mind, I am sure there are some people out there who may not want to know, or don't want their docs to know.  \n\nThis might be a tough topic to research, but very interesting to see where you end up with it, which means it will make a good paper.  Maybe you could also research the benefits of finding out early, going through the painful treatment for it and feeling that the energy and joy has been removed from your life because the treatments are so exhausting  vs. not finding out until you are very ill, yet you had lived a happy life until then, without the painful treatement.  Either way, you end up dying eventually, right?\n\nIt's an interesting debate.  Like I said, I wonder where in the spectrum you will end up when finished.
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You can find a complete answer to your question at:\n\nwww.aids.about.com