Official sources here today said this was disclosed at the One Day Advocacy Workshop for Non-HIV NGOs and Civil Societies, organized by NSACS and Kripa Foundation, Nagaland, held here yesterday.
Out of 3,29,189 people who tested their blood, a total of 10,057 people tested HIV positive and out of HIV positive cases, a total of 3,680 cases were infected with AIDS, while there were 509 AIDS related deaths.
Programme Manager of Kripa Foundation Dr P Ngully called upon the civil societies for their involvement and commitment to fight the dreaded disease as in 80 per cent of the cases, HIV is transmitted through sexual routes in Nagaland.
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