Kolhapur: The district has witnessed a consistent decline in HIV-positive cases, although there are high inflows of the migration population here.
Over the past 10 years, the number of targets tested by HIV doubled from 75,000 to 1.42 lakh.
In 2020-21, 93,000 people had been tested for HIV and from them, only 397 were positive.
Since April this year, the government has tested 32,000 individuals and 191 has been tested positively.
Over the past 10 years, the government has carried out several efforts that have helped drop the number of HIV-positive cases.
Dipa Shipurkar, District Program Officers for the AIDS Prevention and Control Unit (DAPCU), said, “We emphasize the manufacture of high-risk populations and vulnerable to being aware of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of HIV.
Initially, we were among the first five districts with the prevalence of HIV The high, but now, we are in the ninth position, which shows that the level of HIV infection decreases.
“” We have binded with several associations and corporations to make HIV mass movement eradication.
We have worked with several groups that are easily vulnerable to infection.
We held a film festival, Sabhas gram and workshops for women to help them understand the causes and get rid of the social taboo faced by infected people, “he added.
In terms of pregnant women, the level of HIV infection fell to 0.05% from 0.2% in the past 10 years.
More than 6.3 lakh pregnant women were tested, and 414 HIV-positive during this period.
Because early diagnosis, administration makes it possible for HIV-infected mothers to give a healthy baby.
Of 51 shipping, only one baby was positively tested at 2020-21.
Authorities have claimed that a strong network of anti-retroviral therapy centers in the district has helped reach positive patients.
So far, only 484 patients were lost to follow-up (LFU), which meant they stopped treatment in the middle of the road.
Officials claim that most LFU patients are brought back to treatment through counseling.