Eleven people in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad district were found HIV positive during a test survey from April to June in which 1,124 TB patients were also identified, a district official said today.
The state Health Department conducted a test survey in rural areas of the district during which blood samples of 5,806 people were collected, the official said, adding seven male and four female were diagnosed with the virus.
The district administration is taking care of the HIV positive patients, providing them free treatment, medicines and other help, District Magistrate Anil Kumar Pathak said.
"We are trying to probe the reasons how that they got infected with the virus and we are also trying to find out if they have transmitted it to others in their knowledge," the DM said.
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