HIV in India — A Downsized Epidemic

In 2006, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 5.7 million people in India were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a figure that captured wide attention and raised the possibility that India had more infected people than any other country.1 In 2007, however, the estimate was revised downward to 2.5 million (range, 2.0 million to 3.1 million) — a revision so large that it reduced by nearly 10% the estimated number of people living with HIV globally and reinforced ongoing concerns about the validity of methods for producing such . . .