ART data shows drop in HIV cases across district

Nashik | Wednesday | 8th August, 2018

Summary:

A government health official said that over the years there has been a declining graph of detecting HIV+ patients. Still patients shy away from going to ART centre fearing that they could be noticed.” Nashik: If the data furnished by the Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centre — the only government clinic in the district to treat all HIV/AIDS patients — is anything to go by, then there is a declining trend of HIV/AIDS patients in the district.As per the data, even death cases of such patients are decreasing. “For the past many years, the government, health machineries are working hard to spread awareness. If the private practitioners give their figures to the government department, the picture could be different..