MANIPUR CAG Report, said that in March 2007, about 25,919 HIV cases were reported but The count increased to 40,855 in March 2012, is of a great concern, over the increase which is of a serious magnitude. Despite spending Rs 43.39 crore for implementation of Targeted Intervention (TI) programme, there's an increase in HIV positive cases.
This just reflects poor performance and unsatisfactory results in curbing new infections in high-risk individuals, said the report. Although Manipur AIDS Control Society (MACS) has rebutted the CAG report that was presented in Manipur legislative assembly..MACS authority as well as Targeted Intervention Programme Centres running in the state that the figure that have been projected cannot be an indication of transmitting of new HIV positive cases, rather the increase of HIV positive cases are the contribution from old cases which have been concealed in…