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Forum to help HIV widows
- The Telegraph -
Imphal, May 18: 2011
The Manipur Legislature Forum on HIV/AIDS is set to take up the issue of HIV widows and orphans as part of its ongoing programme to check the spread of the disease in Manipur.
The forum, formed on June 30, 2007, is currently organising awareness programmes in Assembly constituencies.
Manipur is one of the six states with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country. With hardly 0.2 per cent of India’s population, the state registers nearly 8 per cent of the country’s HIV-positive cases.
According to statistics available at Manipur AIDS Control Society, 29,147 people have tested HIV positive. Of them, 7,513 are women.
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