NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India planned to verify United Nations estimates it had overtaken South Africa as the country with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, a government official said on Friday. UNAIDS, the U.N.'s AIDS prevention agency, said last month there were about 5.7 million Indians infected at the end of 2005 against South Africa's 5.5 million cases. The Indian government has disputed the figure, saying there were 5.2 million cases by the end of last year -- stirring a debate in local media as to whether authorities have been suppressing the reality of the disease in the country. Sujatha Rao, director general of the National AIDS Control Organization told a news conference the discrepancy between the two estimates was due to different methodologies.
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June 30, 2006
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