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In the middle of outsourcing boom the reality is grim – India and China need help because their population is dying of AIDS
India and China stands to lose 30% of their population in the next twenty years unless AIDS and pollution problem are controlled. The AIDS epidemic in India has gone out of hands. Middleclass men with wives in their home are running after urban and rural prostitutes. They are infecting their wives and future children continuously.
According to media reports. India is among the 20 low and middle income countries which have the highest unmet need for AIDS treatment with only four to nine per cent of people in need of anti-retroviral therapy actually accessing it, a report released said today.
Among the low and middle income countries, 14 per cent of people in need of treatment in East, South and South-East Asia are getting AIDS treatment, according to the UNAIDS/WHO report titled "Progress on Global Access to HIV Antiretroviral Therapy - An Update on `3 by 5''".
The coverage of ART in sub-Saharan Africa is 11 per cent, Latin America and the Caribbean, 62 per cent, Europe and Central Asia, 13 per cent and North Africa and the Middle East, five per cent.
Estimated number of people getting treatment as on June 2005 in India is 33,000-67,000 with a coverage of four-nine per cent. There is an unmet need for 735,000, it says.
China has a coverage of 14-18 per cent and is treating an estimated 11,000-14,000 patients with an unmet need of 65,000.
Thailand, which leads in providing AIDS treatment in Asia, has a coverage of 50-61 per cent with an unmet need of 60,000, it says adding while Russia has a coverage of only four-seven per cent, South Africa has a coverage of 10-14 per cent with an unmet need for 866,000 and Sudan has a coverage of less than one per cent.
Other countries with low coverage include Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Ghana.
As of June 2005, six countries - Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe - comprised over 50 per cent of treatment needs in low and middle income countries, it says.
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