In a recent study published by Kumar et al [ 4 ], a decreasing trend in HIV prevalence has been reported in South Indian pregnant women aged 15–24 years from 1.7% to 1.1% within a period of four years from 2000 to 2004 after antenatal counseling and awareness programmes were initiated and increasing propagation of safe sex was started.
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Seroprevalence of HIV in pregnant women in North India: a tertiary care hospital based study.
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The HIV seroprevalence rates showed an increasing trend from 0.7% (CI 0.14 – 2.04) in 2003–2004 to 0.9% (CI 0.49 – 1.5) in 2005–2006.