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WHO certification on HIV
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- Three tiny Caribbean countries - Belize, Jamaica, St. Vincent and Grenadines receive WHO certification for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
- WHO awards this certification to countries which have brought the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate to under five per cent.
- India had 2.5 million people living with HIV in 2022, including 70,000 children.
- 66,000 people were infected in 2022, a slight increase since 2021.
- There were 32,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2022 (four deaths every hour).
- But the overall number had reduced by 25 per cent in a year.
- In the normal course, the transmission rate of the virus from mother to child during breast-feeding is 24.3 per cent.
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