Highlighting India's progress in HIV prevention efforts, a United Nations report has said that Indians rank AIDS high on their priority list of the most important issues facing the world.
"In India, nearly two thirds believe that the AIDS epidemic is more important than other issues the world is currently facing," said the report, which was launched in Geneva on Tuesday.
The report is based on an international public poll by the UN agency on AIDS, which surveyed adults in 25 countries representing all regions with nearly 12,000 respondents. The poll found that nearly 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, countries in every region continue to rank AIDS high on their priority list.
"Overall, respondents put AIDS as the top health-care issue in the world," the report said. "Furthermore, about half of the respondents are optimistic that the spread of HIV can be stopped by 2015."
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