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30 died of HIV infection in Tripura in 2014-15
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PHOTO : Tripura Aids Control Society organizes a candle rally on eve of World Aids Day in Agartala on Monday. TIWN Pic Nov 30
Agartala, Dec 1 (TIWN): Altogether 30 people died of HIV infection in Tripura in 2014 15, officials said on Monday.
The number of deaths in the financial current year till September is 10, Ashok Roy, AIDS Control Society's Project Director of Tripura state, said.
The state has registered over 950 HIV positive cases in two years. Of them, 700 visit hospital every month to receive anti-retroviral therapy and 250 HIV positive patients meet doctors for consultation and to get medicines.
"If we test 300 blood slides of HIV suspects, one case is found to be positive. The positivity rate is, however, not alarming in the state," Roy said.
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