Project Director of the Mizoram State AIDS Control Society (MSACS) Dr Eric Zomawia said today that 1,91,398 blood samples have been tested since October, 1990, till April, 2012, with the number of new cases decreasing each year.
He attributed the decline in new HIV cases to the joint effort by churches and NGOs in cooperating with government agencies like the MSACS.
HIV infection among pregnant woman in the state was 0.47 per cent during last year, according to the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), he said.
Altogether 306 people with full-blown AIDS have died in Mizoram since 1990, he added.
