HIV/AIDS Statewise statistics India 2010

As per the HIV Estimations 2010, India is estimated to have 23.9 lakh people infected with HIV in 2009 at an estimated adult HIV prevalence of 0.31%. Adult HIV prevalence among men is 0.36%, while among women, it is 0.25%.

India and Statewise HIV Statistics 2010

Estimated Adult HIV Prevalence Male (%) Female% Andaman & NicobarIslands Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Dadra Nagar Haveli Daman & Diu Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Orissa Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim

0.29 1.07 0.2 0.1 0.26 0.46 0.34 0.17 0.18 0.35 0.58 0.44 0.17 0.23 0.09 0.16 0.75 0.23 0.23 0.64 1.89 0.1 0.97 0.94 0.35 0.33 0.37 0.22 0.07

0.15 0.73 0.12 0.06 0.17 0.29 0.22 0.12 0.13 0.23 0.4 0.3 0.07 0.16 0.06 0.1 0.51 0.15 0.16 0.45 0.9 0.07 0.64 0.61 0.23 0.22 0.26 0.15 0.05

Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal INDIA HIV/AIDS

0.39 0.18 0.11 0.12 0.34 0.36

0.27 0.12 0.07 0.08 0.23 0.25

Estimated adult HIV prevalence rate (aged 15-49), 2009 0.3 Estimated number of people (all ages) living with HIV, 2009 2400 Estimated number of people (all ages) living with HIV, 2009 (thousands), low estimate 2100 Estimated number of people (all ages) living with HIV, 2009 (thousands), high estimate 2800 Mother-to-child transmission, Estimated number of women (aged 15+) living with HIV, 2009 (thousands) 880 Paediatric infections, Estimated number of children (aged 0-14) living with HIV, 2009 (thousands) Prevention among young people, HIV prevalence among young people (aged 15-24), 2009, total 0.1 Prevention among young people, HIV prevalence among young people (aged 15-24), 2009, male 0.1 Prevention among young people, HIV prevalence among young people (aged 15-24), 2009, female 0.1 Prevention among young people, % who have comprehensive knowledge of HIV, 2005-2009*, male 36 Prevention among young people, % who have comprehensive knowledge of HIV, 2005-2009*, female 20 Prevention among young people, % who used condom at last higher-risk sex, 2005-2009*, male 37 Prevention among young people, % who used condom at last higher-risk sex, 2005-2009*, female 2 It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance. India is a country that I care about deeply. We're talking about a population in India that is close to a billion people. If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia. Richard Gere On AIDS crisis in India, Feb 2006. If we do this work now, we may save 10, 15 million lives. It gives you a lot of focus. I mean, how many things in your life can you do that have that kind of impact? Richard Gere On treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, quoted on CNN Nov 2004 - report said Gere donates $100,000 annually to run orphanage for HIV-infected children in India. We asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face. Dirk Silz The creative director of Germany's new "AIDS Is a Mass Murderer" campaign, on choice of Adolf Hitler as virus's human embodiment.