Paediatric HIV/AIDS in India

[Gas]

HIV/AIDS is a serious issue that has affected a huge crowd of India. It is one of the most fatal viruses that have no cure. It has been reported by the National AIDS Control Organization that, in 2007 approximately, out of an anticipated 2.31 million people with HIV and AIDS in India, women comprises 39% and children below 15 years comprises of 7.8%. Beyond the 70,000 children below 15 years with HIV in India, 21,000 are infected every year through parent to child transmission. There are escalating number of children dying with AIDS is a foremost concern in India. How we put an end to it?

 

[bharat]

This is really a helpful piece of information. The data revealed here is really horrifying that so many children are dying with AIDS every year. Children are the future of the nation and it is sad that the number of children dying from AIDS every year is augmenting. Government should take steps to put and end to it. Media can play a great role by creating awareness among the people who are illiterate and stay in slums as it is seen that these people are mainly the victim of HIV and AIDS. Vaccination has been invented to protect the children from being HIV positive, which is to be given to the expecting mother while the child is in womb.