Mysuru: There was a decrease in the number of HIV positive cases in Mysuru District when compared to previous years.
This year, 389 was tested positive until October with each against 916 and 521 in 2019-20 and 2020-21.
The district has tested 91,953 people in all 25 integrated counseling and testing centers (ICTC), including the seventh cut in 2021.
In the same period in 2020-21, the District Health Authority tested 45,636 HIV-positive pregnant women.
with a prevalence rate of 0.04 percent.
The district also tested 68,819 people in all ICTS at the end of this October and detected 389 cases with a prevalence rate of 0.56 percent this year.
If a patient infected with AIDS is included, the number rose to 521.
Against 29,037 pregnant women tested, this district found 11 positive women for HIV / AIDS with a prevalence rate of 0.03 percent at the end of this October.
The district reported 1,030 in 2017-18, 1.022 in 2018-19, 916 in 2019-20, 521 in 2020-21 and 389 at 2021-22 (up to October).
According to reports infected with HIV Taluk-Wise in 2020-21, Mysuru has reported 196, Hunsur 47, Periyapatna 17, K R Nagar 31, Nanji 49, H D Kote 26, T Narasipura 44 and from other districts 111 cases.
This district has also identified 45 children infected with HIV (brought from their mother) after testing 736 children from 2010 to October 2021, according to reports from the District AIDS control community.
Apart from this, as many as 23,349 HIV / AIDS infections have received treatment at the Antiretroviral Care Center at the K R, Asha Kirana Hospital, and JSS Hospital from May 2004 to date in the district, saying the sources.
Officials in the district link the decline in government-managed awareness programs and protection measures.
Speaking to Toi, District Health Officer, Dr.
KH Prasad, said that the district AIDS control unit had begun many steps to impose cases by spreading consciousness by conducting road games with artists trained by the Karnataka State Prevention Prevention (KSAPS), Seminar, Workshop , wall poster about the importance of using condoms and other safe sex acts.
Steps such as making condom availability easier in all public places also contributed a lot to decline in cases in this district.
When the prevalence rate is now 0.56 percent in this district, it will be reduced to the next half a year by a joint effort from the District Health Department and the district AIDS control community, he said.