Among the states, Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest number of such cases of HIV transmission at 3,18,814 followed by Maharashtra at 2,84,577, Karnataka at 2,12,982, Tamil Nadu at 1,16,536, Uttar Pradesh at 1,10,911 and Gujarat at 87,440 cases.
The product would be manufactured at the company's Nagpur-based facility.
More people than ever now have access to medications called antiretroviral therapy or ART, which when taken as prescribed, keeps down the amount of virus in their body.
While no cure has been found for HIV till date, in what may be termed promising news, human trials may soon start, with a vaccine developed by Chinese scientists recieving a green signal. According to reports, scientists will soon start testing an HIV vaccine on 160 human volunteers. The vaccine is guaranteed to have long-lasting effects to fight the infection.
Since little over a month, 16 children aged between six months and two years are being given pellets, which look like homeopathy pills, containing drugs lopinavir and ritonavir.
HIV tends to remain a big global problem, since 1981. Around 2 million people getting newly infected every year. India continues to remain the third largest country of people living with HIV.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is providing this funding for the groundbreaking new technology which could revolutionise HIV prevention.
Globally, between 2010 and 2015, the number of new HIV infections among young women aged between 15 and 24 years was reduced by just 6%, from 420,000 to 390,000.
The UN General Assembly adopted a new political declaration that emphasised on the critical importance of affordable medicines to combat the scourge of HIV/AIDS.
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