The March 2009 issue of AIDS Care, carried details of a study titled ‘Profile of adults seeking voluntary HIV testing and counselling in rural central India: Results from a hospital-based study’ by Nikita Pant Pai and others. A significant finding of the study was the high risk factor for married women.

A survey in four central jails in Maharashtra ordered by the Bombay High Court found that HIV prevalence in prisons is higher than it is in the general population. 

Access to the government’s anti-retroviral therapy (ART) programme depends on where you live, and more so for second-line treatment. ART is the most effective medication for HIV discovered so far and is provided at two levels.

The January 2009 issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) contains a study and a commentary on the challenges of providing HIV care to children in India where 3.8% (approximately 100,000) of an estimated 2.5 million persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) are children. Of the 1.78 lakh people on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in 2008, 12,000 are children.