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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Biswendu Bhattacharjee | TNN

HIV infection alarming in Tripura; admin mulls amendment in rules for mass testing

AGARTALA: Tripura administration rocked with the growing incidences of HIV infection through injecting drug use mostly among teenagers mulls to seek amendment in the provision of mandatory consent for testing HIV to go for an intensive diagnosis.

A highly placed source in the administration on Friday said that the officials of Tripura’s AIDS Control Society have detected as many as 31 teenagers from 10 camps in Dhalai district after conducting test of over a thousand people in last two months and all those positive persons were identified as injecting drug users (IDU).

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