<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4413151.stm>:
[Published 5 April 2005]
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Last July, India's National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) said that
the country had 5.1 million infections, second only to South Africa
which has 5.3 million people living with HIV or Aids.
Two years ago, the United States National Intelligence Council
estimated there were five million to eight million HIV-infected people
in India, a number it said could swell to 20-25 million by 2010.
The Indian government says there is no need to panic as only 0.5% of
Indians have been infected, compared to 2.1% in Thailand and 2.3% in
South Africa.
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<http://www.mask.org.za/article.php?cat=news&id=667>:
[Published 7 April 2005]
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India says more than five million of its citizens are infected with
the HIV virus, second only to South Africa, but AIDS activists say
that the actual number of Indians affected by HIV/AIDS is much higher
than the government says.
Two years ago, the CIA in a re****t to the Bush Administration said
that AIDS is a risk to national security. The re****t estimated there
were five million to eight million HIV-infected people in India, a
number it said could swell to 20-25 million by 2010.
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It is estimated that, today, there are between 2 and 3.1 million
people living in India with HIVAIDS -
<http://www.avert.org/indiaaids.htm>.
To put that in to context, let's compare it to adult HIV prevalence
from elsewhere
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_adult_prevalence_rate>:
United States: 984,155 est. cases of HIVAIDS, prevalence of 0.60%;
India: 2,500,000 est. cases of HIVAIDS, prevalence of 0.36%;
United Kingdom: 51,000 est. cases of HIVAIDS, prevalence of 0.20%.
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