Document 3074
 DOCN  M94A3074
 TI    HIV infection in India--trends analysis.
 DT    9412
 AU    Lal S; Khodakevich L; Salil P; National AIDS Control Organization, New
       Delhi, India.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):16 (abstract no. 039C). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369501
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To review the trends of the spread of HIV infection in India.
       METHODS: Analysis of the data recorded by 62 surveillance centres set up
       in all 32 States and Union Territories of India, by area and in time.
       RESULTS: As of 31 Jan 1994 out of about 2 million samples screened
       country wide for HIV infection, 14,439 samples were found sero-positive.
       In a short span of seven years, since HIV infection was first detected
       in Maharashtra in 1986, it has been reported from almost all States and
       Union Territories of the country. The surveillance data also indicate
       that along with the marginalized groups like commercial sex workers,
       intravenous drug users and STD patients, the people with no identified
       risk behaviours, so called general population are being involved in the
       epidemic. In some urban areas, the HIV prevalence rates in pregnant
       women have reached 1 to 2 per cent. Certain clustering is observed at
       this stage of the epidemic, related to the industrial development and
       migration. The number of HIV infected individuals by the end of 1993 is
       estimated well over one million, most of them had been infected through
       sexual route, and about half of these were women. DISCUSSION AND
       CONCLUSIONS: HIV infection has rapidly spread far beyond the originally
       recognized centres in the country. The epidemic is at different stages
       at various locations of the same States/Union Territories. The infection
       is not only confined to high risk behaviour groups but is also spreading
       to general population mainly through sexual route. These urge to mount
       immediate interventions.
 DE    Cluster Analysis  Female  Human  HIV
       Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  HIV Seroprevalence
       India/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Male  Population Surveillance  Pregnancy  Pregnancy
       Complications, Infectious/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Prevalence  Prostitution
       Sexually Transmitted Diseases/COMPLICATIONS  Substance Abuse,
       Intravenous  MEETING ABSTRACT

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