{"id":28574,"date":"2020-09-22T05:19:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28574"},"modified":"2020-09-22T05:19:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:19:48","slug":"mohfw-informed-rajya-sabha-about-the-status-of-hiv-aids-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/mohfw-informed-rajya-sabha-about-the-status-of-hiv-aids-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"MoHFW informed Rajya Sabha about the status of HIV\/AIDS Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare informed Rajya Sabha about the status of HIV\/AIDS Patients in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the latest HIV estimates report (2019) of the Government, India is estimated to have around 23.49 lakh people living with HIV\/AIDS (PLHIV) in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HIV epidemic has an overall decreasing trend in country with estimated annual New HIV infections declining by 37% between 2010 and 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HIV infection in India is mainly caused by engagement in high risk behaviours. The main high-risk behaviours identified for HIV infection in India includes unprotected heterosexual behaviour, unprotected homosexual behaviour, and unsafe injecting drug use behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no dedicated hospitals for the treatment of HIV\/AIDS patients. However, under the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) of the Government, as on July 2020, there are 570 Anti-retroviral treatment (ART) Centres and 1264 Link ART Centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare informed Rajya Sabha about the status of HIV\/AIDS Patients in India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points As per the latest HIV estimates report (2019) of the Government, India is estimated to have around 23.49 lakh people living with HIV\/AIDS (PLHIV) in 2019. The HIV epidemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[1185],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020","tag-ministry-of-health-and-family-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28576,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28574\/revisions\/28576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28574"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}