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Haryana state in India, still a low HIV prevalence state
  1. D R Arora1,
  2. V Gautam2,
  3. P S Gill3,
  4. B Arora4,
  5. V Gupta5
  1. 1Department of Microbiology, Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre for AIDS, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, Haryana, India
  2. 2Department of Microbiology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
  3. 3Department of Microbiology, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, Haryana, India
  4. 4Department of Pathology, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, Haryana, India
  5. 5Department of Microbiology, Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre for AIDS, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr V Gautam
 3243/21 D, Chandigarh, India-160022; r_vgyahoo.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/sti.2003.008672

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    In Haryana, India, with a geographical area of 27 632 square miles, an HIV sentinel surveillance was carried out, on a regular basis (1998–2002), on consecutive serum samples of 400 antenatal clinic (ANC) attendees (three sites) and 250 sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic attendees (four sites). This was done for each 12 week period per year as unlinked anonymous testing with one of the ELISA/rapid/simple tests. A sample that was positive with two tests of different assays was considered HIV positive. The other STDs were diagnosed clinically and using appropriate laboratory tests.1,2

    Of the 7933 men and women who participated in the HIV sentinel surveillance from 1998–2002, 15 (0.3%) of 5200 ANC attendees and 48 (1.8%) of 2733 STD clinic attendees had HIV. Though HIV prevalence is …

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