Wednesday, December 3, 2008

16 die of AIDS, 92 HIV positive in Kalahandi

The Pioneer, Nov 3, 2008

Bhawanipatna: In the current year, 92 persons have been found HIV positive by the blood samples taken whereas 16 persons died of AIDS in Kalahandi. On the World AIDS Day on Monday, Collector R Santhagopalan spoke about the disease at a meeting attended by representatives of NGOs and Anganwadi workers at Kalyan Mandap here. CDMO Sushil Kumar Rath said that from January blood samples of 4,985 persons in the district were collected for tests. In Dharmagarh block, 38 males and 17 females were found to be HIV positive, while eight, including a six-year-old child, died of AIDS.

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