Government of India 

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation responds to HIV/AIDS

The first case of HIV in India was reported in 1986. The government’s initial response was to start a National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The Government of India estimates that in 2006 about 2.45 million Indians are living with HIV with an adult prevalence rate of 0.41%. Main mode of HIV transmission is through unprotected sexual intercourse. Largely India’s epidemic is concentrated in the industrialized states in the south (Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka and Tamil Nadu) and the west (Maharashtra) and in the northeastern border (Manipur and Nagaland). In the northeastern border the main mode of transmission is through sharing injecting needles during drug use. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is closely linked with poverty, inequality,illiteracy, gender and human rights

and impacts equally on many different sectors such as industry, education, transport, health, agriculture, etc. It impacts upon every sector alike.  Hence MoHUPA joins hands with MoHFW’s National AIDS Control Organization ( www.nacoonline.org ) in its mission of reversing and halting the HIV epidemic to sustain a long-term response to AIDS.

A young man shares his story of living with HIV. View the story


A report of session on HIV mainstreaming in the “National Workshop of Network of National Resource Centers (NNRCs) on Urban Poverty and other Institutions of Excellence under the aegis of ‘Researcher’s Colloquium for Urban Poverty”, at Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad.
A report on advocacy & sensitisation session on HIV/AIDS in National Mayor’s Forum Conference on Urban Poverty Alleviation at Rajkot.

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-Where are ART centers located in India?   
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