With a prevalence rate of 0.76% among adults, third highest in the country, Nagaland has 22,878 'People living with HIV' (PLHIV) and AIDS cases, an official of Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) has said. A study, conducted between early 1999 and 2018, has found that the Manipur has the highest HIV prevalence rate among adults in the country at 1.06%, followed by Mizoram at 0.79%, NSACS Deputy Director said on Wednesday at a sensitization programme for media persons.
The good news is that the prevalence rate of HIV in the state has seen a declining trend over the years, she said.The country, as a whole, has 21.1 lakh PLHIV cases and nine states - Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Rajasthan - account for 82% of those cases. In Nagaland , which has a population of around 20 lakh, she said, 10,16,700 blood samples…
