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Madurai: an HIV time bomb waiting to explode Over 6,000 positive cases drop out of surveillance radar The latest report prepared by the district officials of the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TANSACS) is a wake-up call for Madurai. The district is on the HIV watch list after 6,539 HIV positive patients have gone “missing” and cannot be traced despite a sprawling network of voluntary organisations and heavy fund flow from Government and private agencies. An alert has been sounded for fear that these missing patients could be silently spreading HIV among the population in and around Madurai. Not undergoing treatment, these HIV patients remain at large and have dropped out of the surveillance radar. “Tracking them is a challenge for us and I have already alerted the higher-ups at TANSACS headquarters in Chennai,” said Dr. M. Kalirajan, District Programme Manager, Madurai District AIDS Prevention and Control unit, while presenting the HIV prevalence report on July 2. Every year, more than 1,000 new cases are added to the ‘positive’ list in the district. From January to December 2012, the data points to 1,048 confirmed HIV cases, while 1,217 persons tested positive in 2011. In 2010, Madurai district had 1,374 HIV positive cases.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 05:03:21 +0000

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