Every village in Goa has HIV patients, says minister
13 Aug 2014 5:19 AM IST
Goa does not have a single village unaffected with HIV, state health minister Laxmikant Parsekar said on Monday.
‘There are 15,000 people affected with HIV, which means that one per cent of people in the state are affected with it.
There is not a single village in the state which has no person affected with HIV,’ Parsekar told the legislative assembly here.
He was responding to a question tabled by BJP legislator Nilesh Cabral, about HIV cases in Goa.
However, the number of people affected with HIV has been gone down in the state, the minister said. The number of patients has decreased by almost half since 2009.
‘Right from 2003 till 2008, the state was recording around 1,000 cases annually. But since 2009, the
number has gone down to about 550 annually,’ he told the House.
‘There are 15,000 people affected with HIV, which means that one per cent of people in the state are affected with it.
There is not a single village in the state which has no person affected with HIV,’ Parsekar told the legislative assembly here.
He was responding to a question tabled by BJP legislator Nilesh Cabral, about HIV cases in Goa.
However, the number of people affected with HIV has been gone down in the state, the minister said. The number of patients has decreased by almost half since 2009.
‘Right from 2003 till 2008, the state was recording around 1,000 cases annually. But since 2009, the
number has gone down to about 550 annually,’ he told the House.
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