INDIA LIKELY TO MISS TARGET OF ERADICATING AIDS BY 2030: INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH (ICMR) STUDY

 INDIA LIKELY TO MISS TARGET OF ERADICATING AIDS BY 2030: INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH (ICMR) STUDY 

• In 2016, at the UNs' High-Level Meeting on AIDS, India committed towards the goal of 'ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030'. 
• SDG 3.3 aims to End AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. 
• Key highlights of the study 
• The decline in annual new HIV infections was only 27% from 2010 to 2017 against a national target of a 75% decline by 2020. 
• People Living With HIV/AIDS (PHLIV): 2.1 million in 2017. 
• States with the highest number of PHI-IV in 2017: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. 
• Signs of rising new HIV infections in the low-burden states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, etc. in 2017 compared with 2010. 
• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV interferes with the body's ability to fight infection and disease, by damaging the immune system. 
• Steps were taken to eradicate AIDS 
• National AIDS Control Programme, based on three pillars-Prevention, Care-counselling, and Treatment. 
• National Strategic Plan (2017-24) on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infection. 
• Project Sunrise for prevention of AIDS in 8 North-Eastern states. 

Source: Mint