{"id":3307,"date":"2019-12-07T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T06:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2019-12-07T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T06:04:47","slug":"mizoram-budget-to-fight-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/mizoram-budget-to-fight-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizoram budget to fight AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: telegraphindia.com<\/p>\n<p>The Mizoram government will make separate budgetary provision to fight the growing HIV\/AIDS prevalence in the state, an official of the state health department said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The official said health minister R. Lalthangliana told experts during a review meeting of integrated HIV\/AIDS action plan here on Thursday that the government, apart from deciding to allocate a separate budget, is planning to fight AIDS on a war footing.<\/p>\n<p>Lalthangliana also asked experts to help the state government in fighting the growing spread of HIV\/AIDS keeping in mind the mentality, culture and ethos of the local populace.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also expressed hope that the review meeting, which involved the country\u2019s top experts in the field, will chalk out a better action plan that effectively curbs the spread of HIV in Mizoram.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1558959879030-0\" class=\"positioning\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Organised jointly by the National AIDS Control Organisation (Naco), ministry of health and family welfare and Mizoram government, the two-day event concluded on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Christian-dominated Mizoram, which shares porous borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, has the dubious distinction of being the highest HIV-prevalent state in the country with at least 2.04 per cent of the total population of about 11 lakh being infected with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Manipur, with 1.43 per cent of its total population being infected with HIV, stands at second followed by Nagland, while the national average is 0.2 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials of the Mizoram State AIDS Control Society (MSACS), nearly 2,000 people have died as a result of AIDS in the state since the first case was detected in October 1990 and altogether 19,631 HIV cases have been detected in the state till date.<\/p>\n<p>They said more than 67.21 per cent of HIV-positive cases were sexually transmitted, while about 28.12 per cent cases were transmitted through sharing needles by intravenous drug users.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the HIV prevalence rate is \u201cextremely alarming\u201d and in 2018-2019 alone 2,557 new cases were reported with nine persons testing positive every day.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of the HIV-positive cases confirmed at the testing centres show that people in the age group of 25-34 years are the most vulnerable in Mizoram, followed by those in the age brackets of 35-49 years and 15-24 years.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2516,1214,2337,2363],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aids-hiv","tag-fight-aids","tag-health-department","tag-hiv-aids-3","tag-mizoram"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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