Aids.New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. -- According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Indian government statistics, more than five million people are either infected with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. , the virus which causes AIDS, or already have full-blown AIDS. Officially, the United Nations ranks India as the second biggest AIDS hot-spot after South Africa. While world attention focuses on the AIDS problem in Africa, many analysts think India is incubating a greater AIDS disaster. Richard Feachem, executive director of the Paris-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, warns that India's official statistics are too low, and "that India is or is becoming the epicentre epicentre Point on the surface of the Earth that is directly above the source (or focus) of an earthquake. There the effects of the earthquake usually are most severe. See also seismology. for the pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. ." Meanwhile, fewer than one per cent of those infected are obtaining the necessary anti-retroviral therapy, and widespread discrimination against those infected is the norm, forcing them underground. What is the solution proposed by the Congress-led government? Double the budget of the National AIDS Control Organization for condoms and the marketing of the "safe-sex" message (Tot. Star, June 28, 2005). |
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