India Country Snapshots

India fact sheets on estimated number of adolescents living with HIV 2013. The fact sheets provide information on adolescent HIV trends, distribution of adolescent AIDS-related deaths, HIV treatment for adolescents, adolescent knowledge, testing and behavior related to HIV and adolescent key population.

The MSM Country Snapshots is a new publication series that disseminates strategic information on HIV and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Asia and the Pacific.

The first cases of HIV were diagnosed among sex workers in Chennai in 1986. Since then, the country has evolved from a "low" to "concentrated" epidemic; the national HIV prevalence has steadily grown, not only among key affected populations such as men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers and injecting drug users (IDUs), but also spreading into the general population in several states.

Globally, the HIV sentinel surveillance system has been recognised as an optimal mechanism to monitor trends of HIV infection in specific high-risk groups as well as low risk groups.