Delhi to provide Rs.1,000 each to HIV-positive patients
December 1st, 2011 - 11:52 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) The Delhi government Thursday decided to provide financial assistance of Rs.1,000 per month to all HIV-positive people in the capital.
“We are in the process of providing Rs.1,000 to the people affected by HIV. This will help them avail regular treatment at the Anti Retroviral Therapy centres,” Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said at a World AIDS Day event here.
Dikshit said the NGOs contribution in bringing down the number of cases has been appreciable.
“Their contribution has proved to be crucial. The problem aggravates in the lack of proper information,” she said.
Speaking on the occasion, union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said: “We are committed to not only reducing the cases of HIV/AIDS but to rooting it out completely. As per a WHO report, there are 3.40 crore HIV affected persons in the world. With proper counselling and treatment, new infection cases have come down by 50 percent in the country.”
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