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Article first published as India keeping HIV+ Hopes Alive Worldwide on Technorati. India – One of the strongest growing economies is the reason to smile for the HIV+ worldwide. Thanks to the country’s robust pharmaceutical sector, it’s producing very high quality and low cost generic drugs thereby catering to 200 nations across the globe. As per Mr Michel Sidibe executive director for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), India is catering to 86% AIDS affected people worldwide. 6.6 million positives have access to treatment today primarily due to India making available high quality and affordable anti – retroviral drugs. As a result the survival rates have improved vastly. Country itself has around 2.4 Million AIDS affected. Sidibe who hails from Africa, which is one of the worst affected countries worldwide said with continued efforts, raised awareness and improved health care, there has been 33% drop in new infections as well as 12 fold inc...