Guwahati, Nov 15 (PTI) Dibrugarh has become Assam’s first ‘Surakshit District’, achieving 100 per cent of HIV control targets, the Chief Minister’s Office said on Sunday.
The achievement has put Dibrugarh in the lead towards HIV epidemic control by 2027, it said.
“Dibrugarh has become Assam’s first ‘Surakshit District’, achieving 100 per cent of the NACO 95-95-95 targets for HIV control,” the CMO said in a social media post.
The 95-95-95 target, set by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), aims at ensuring that 95 per cent of people living with HIV know their status, 95 per cent of those diagnosed are on sustained antiretroviral treatment and 95 per cent of those on treatment achieve viral suppression. PTI TR TR BDC
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