Magazine Subscription
  • Home
  • News
  • Views
  • GovNow
  • GovNext
  • Login
  • Register
Home › Views › Think Tanks › UN lauds India’s contribution to fight AIDS

UN lauds India’s contribution to fight AIDS

UNAIDS report 2012 says India played a crucial role in reducing the generic price of drugs
GN Bureau | July 24 2012
  • http://www.governancenow.com/sites/default/files/AIDS.png
View
 
 Image

As the world is witnessing financial crisis, the international philanthropic aid might be shrinking to India and other countries but India has committed more funds to fight AIDS. “BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) increased domestic public spending on HIV by more than 120 percent between 2006 and 2011. India, too, has committed to increase domestic funding to more than 90 percent in its next phase of AIDS response,” said the UNAIDS report 2012.

The report also lauded the role of India and few countries in their fight against AIDS. “The sustained and increased investments by some lower and upper middle income countries—including India, China, South Africa and Thailand—as well as their participation in R&D projects, are now proving critical both to broadening the prevention research funding base and to expand research globally,” said the report titled ‘Together we will end AIDS’.

According to the report, “With 80 percent of these drugs being generic and purchased in India, several billion dollars have been saved over the past five years. The country is also committed to new forms of partnership with low-income countries through innovative support mechanisms and South–South cooperation.”

The report also mentions India’s new initiative. “In July 2011, India announced that it would work to ensure availability of generic ARVs and passed guidelines on new health insurance coverage for HIV patients,” said the 44-page report.

India gives free anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to people with HIV, with the cost of the treatment being the cheapest in the country, which has 2.7 million people living with HIV, with an adult prevalence of 0.31 percent of the general population.

The report noted that 34.2 million people are living with HIV.

Some facts about the report
•    34.2 million [31.8 – 35.9 million] people globally living with HIV
•    2.5 million [2.2 – 2.8 million] people became newly infected with HIV
•    1.7 million [1.6 – 1.9 million] people died of AIDS-related illnesses
•    More than 8 million people are receiving antiretroviral therapy

Read the report
 

Related stories

Stories you might like

Buzz in corridors: PAC to audit RD ministry schemes, empanelment of 1980 batch begins
Is new CAG too close to UPA for public comfort?
14 ministers abroad, union cabinet meet decides on 15 items in 8 minutes!
Meet the man who took on realty giant DLF
Reality of Dharavi realty:residents oppose upgrade

More stories in this section

India slack on corruption, says UN body
Lok Sabha wasted over half its schedule time: PRS
Clean energy? Delhi's the worst performer

Author

 

In Other Stories

  • People tell govt: Wada Na Todo
  • Not powerful enough to do what I plan: Montek
  • Nitin Gadkari slams election commission on EVMs
  • What people want from the budget
  • End of poverty still a dream
  • "India can't eradicate poverty by 2015"
  • Gender equality a distant dream: UNDP
  • Downtrodden Muslims demand greater representation
  • Muslim groups demand job quota
  • Drug resistant TB on rise: WHO

In This Section

  • Most Emailed
  • Most Popular
  • Most Commented
  • What if tomorrow never comes?...
  • Right said Rangarajan...
  • I just want to be a change agent - Nilekani...
  • e-Gov lessons from Estonia!...
anna hazare Bihar BJP CBI china congress corruption Delhi e-governance facebook Gujarat High Court India jairam ramesh Kapil Sibal Karnataka Maharashtra Manmohan Singh Mumbai Narendra Modi parliament P Chidambaram Pranab Mukherjee prime minister rajya sabha RTI Sonia Gandhi supreme court UPA Uttar Pradesh
more tags
Copyright ©2010 Governance Now
  • Copyright Info
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Help
  • Advertise with us
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Sitemap