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India Sees Big HIV/AIDS Rise
The number of people in India infected with the HIV/AIDS virus has risen sharply, according to figures released on Friday.
More than 4.5 million Indians were infected by the end of 2002, India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) says.
The figure for 2001 was below four million.
..."HIV/AIDS in India is not only confined to high-risk groups and in cities, but is gradually spreading into rural areas and the general population," said NACO director, Meenakshi Datta Ghosh.
Copyright 2003 BBC News
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National Aids Control Organisation
http://www.naco.nic.in/
UNAIDS - The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
http://www.unaids.org/
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 25 July 2003
Asia : India
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