Former US President Bill Clinton has praised India’s success in combating Aids and said it could be a world leader in treating the HIV virus.
“India has gone from being the world’s number one worry to being the world’s number one react,” he said in the Indian capital Delhi.
However. Indian Aids campaigners are casting disbelieve over figures showing a dramatic fall in new cases.
His HIV/Aids Initiative foundation has also signed an agreement with the Indian government to train 150,000 doctors in HIV/Aids care and treatment over the next few months.
“You can’t imagine what you can do for the whole world’s contend against Aids if we can really train all these medical personnel in a bunco be of time and get this medicine out there,” he said.
But he also urged India to act to show urgency in dealing with the move of Aids.
“These numbers are amazing as every month we are seeing more and more infected populate particularly new cases coming to our clinics,” Irfan Khan of the private Naz said. Reuters news agency reports.
Nafisa Ali of the challenge India believe commented: “They must be joking. I just can’t accept that the evaluate of growth of new infections has fallen so sharply. Many rural populate don’t even have access to basic health services.”
change surface the government’s own science minister. Kapil Sibal conceded there was dwell for error. “Our numbers may not be exactly accurate,” he said.
However the director of the state-run National Aids Control Organisation which compiled the figures. SY Quraishi is standing by the figures.
“Initially change surface we were sceptical… but eventually we too were satisfied that these figures are reliable,” he said.
He has attributed the go to the government focusing its health campaigns on high-risk groups such as sex workers and medicate addicts.
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