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India has been "fairly successful" in fighting AIDS by targeting key affected populations such as intravenous drug users, transgendered people, sex workers and homosexuals, but it's focus must broaden to high-risk mobile communities to keep the disease under control, the United Nations said. Policies focused on prevention and a huge social mobilization have allowed India to reduce new infections of HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, by as much as 57 percent in 10 years; and more than 650,000 people living with HIV are receiving antiretroviral therapy, the second-largest number in the world by country, according to UNAIDS. There are about 2.1 million people living with HIV in India, with an estimated 130,000 new infections per year. While focus on the "core" communities has helped keep the disease in check, authorities must "follow the epidemic" and target internal migrants and truckers to widen the scope of prevention efforts, two UNAIDS officials said in an interview with India Insight ahead of World AIDS Day, which is observed on Dec. 1. "Internal migration is a concern in India. You see changes and patterns of the epidemic in association with migration/mobility," said Oussama Tawil, country coordinator, UNAIDS. Focusing on the mobile population is important because many clients of sex workers are known to be single male migrants and truck drivers. While prevalence of HIV does not go beyond 2 percent among migrants and truck drivers, applying that figure to about 7 million people means that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are HIV positive, said Taoufik Bakkali, senior strategic information adviser at UNAIDS. And many of them will pass on the disease to their wives or their future wives in other places, thereby changing the pattern of the epidemic.
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migrants, AIDS, UN, United Nations, HIV, India, population, mobile population, truck drivers, UNAIDS, drug users, sex workers, policies, social mobilization,
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