{"id":66972,"date":"2020-10-20T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=66972"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:45:46","slug":"initiatives-against-hiv-and-aids-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/initiatives-against-hiv-and-aids-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiatives against HIV and AIDS in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context: <\/strong>Government has taken several initiatives against HIV and AIDS in India.\u00a0 There is a reduction in new HIV infections among children and in AIDS-related deaths in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discuss the developments made by India in tackling HIV-related infections and AIDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>According to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO)\/Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with the technical support of UNAIDS <\/strong>show that there has been a 66.1% reduction in new HIV infections among children and a 65.3% reduction in AIDS-related deaths in India over a nine-year period.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The number of pregnant women living with HIV has reduced<\/strong> from 31,000 in 2010 to 20,000 in 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>HIV testing has increased over time<\/strong> and within target range and treatment coverage has also expanded.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Under the leadership of NACO, a \u2018Fast-Tracking of EMTCT (elimination of mother-to-child transmission) strategy-cum-action plan\u2019<\/strong> was drawn by June 2019, in the run towards December 2020: the deadline to achieve EMTCT.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The plan involved mobilisation and reinforcement of all national<\/strong>, State and partners\u2019 collective efforts in a strategic manner, with district-level focus, and considering latest evidence so that the States\/Union Territories and the country as a whole achieve the EMTCT goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India made important progress in reducing the HIV impact on children <strong>through prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV from 2010 to 2019.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This was done through education and communication programmes<\/li>\n<li>Increased access to HIV services with innovative delivery mechanisms for HIV testing<\/li>\n<li>Counselling and care<\/li>\n<li>Treatment and follow-ups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>India made HIV testing for all pregnant women free <\/strong>and HIV treatment is offered the same way countrywide without cost to pregnant mothers living with HIV through <strong>the national \u2018treat all\u2019 policy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>UNICEF has worked with the World Health Organization and NACO<\/strong> to find high burden districts (in terms of density of pregnant women living with HIV) for 2 years.<\/li>\n<li>It is a challenge to diagnose 20,000 pregnant women living with HIV in an estimated 30 million pregnancies annually in India.\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2002 a series of implementation strategies were rolled out so that all pregnant women can access free HIV testing along with other services at pregnancy clinics, and <strong>free treatment routines for life to prevent HIV transmission from mothers to babies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Health Mission<\/strong> made this possible in government health centres and grass-root level workers through village health and nutrition days and other grass-roots events.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Using data-driven and decision-making approaches<\/strong>, we are certain that AIDS will no longer be a public health threat for children in India by the end 2030, if not before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/many-gains-in-fighting-hiv\/article32894965.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Context: Government has taken several initiatives against HIV and AIDS in India.\u00a0 There is a reduction in new HIV infections among children and in AIDS-related deaths in India. Discuss the developments made by India in tackling HIV-related infections and AIDS. According to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO)\/Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/initiatives-against-hiv-and-aids-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Initiatives against HIV and AIDS in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1273],"class_list":["post-66972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-soc_03","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":54,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}