Over 90 per cent of people in India who are infected simultaneously with HIV and tuberculosis have access to HIV therapy, a new study released today said.
The report by UNAIDS showed that countries are getting on the 'fast-track', with an additional one million people accessing treatment in just six months (January to June 2016).
By June 2016, around 18.2 million (16.1 million-19 million) people had access to the life-saving medicines, including 910,000 children, double the number five years earlier.
If these efforts are sustained and increased, the world will be on track to achieve the target of 30 million people on treatment by 2020, the report said.
"Antiretroviral therapy among TB patients known to be living with HIV was 78 per cent globally, and above 90 per cent in India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland," the report said.
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