PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA 42
DEPARTMENT - RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
FORTY-SECOND REPORT ON DEMANDS FOR GRANTS 2010-11 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AIDS CONTROL (MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE)
(PRESENTED TO THE RAJYA SABHA ON 28TH APRIL, 2010) (LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE LOK SABHA ON 28TH APRIL, 2010)
RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI APRIL, 2010/VAISHAKHA, 1932 (SAKA)
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PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA
DEPARTMENT - RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
FORTY-SECOND REPORT ON DEMANDS FOR GRANTS 2010-11 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AIDS CONTROL (MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE)
(PRESENTED TO THE RAJYA SABHA ON 28TH APRIL, 2010) (LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE LOK SABHA ON 28TH APRIL, 2010)
RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI APRIL, 2010/VAISHAKHA, 1932 (SAKA) CONTENTS
PAGES
1. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE...... (i)-(ii)
2. PREFACE ...... (iii)
3. REPORT ...... 1-13
4. OBSERVATIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS ---- AT A GLANCE ...... 14-19
5. MINUTES ...... 21-26
COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (2009-2010)
1. Shri Amar Singh ----- Chairman
RAJYA SABHA 2. Shrimati Viplove Thakur 3. Dr. Radhakant Nayak 4. Shri Janardan Dwivedi 5. Shri Balbir Punj 6. Dr. Prabhakar Kore 7. Shrimati Brinda Karat 8. Shrimati Vasanthi Stanley 9. Dr. M.A.M. Ramaswamy 10. Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss
LOK SABHA 11. Shri J. M. Aaron Rashid 12. Shri Ashok Argal 13. Shrimati Sarika Devendra Singh Baghel 14. Shri Vijay Bahuguna 15. Dr. Chinta Mohan 16. Shrimati Tabassum Hasan 17. Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal 18. Shri S. R. Jeyadurai 19 Dr. (Shrimati) Kruparani Killi 20. Shri N. Kristappa 21. Dr. Tarun Mandal 22. Shri Datta Meghe 23. Dr. Jyoti Mirdha 24. Shrimati Jayshreeben Patel 25. Shri R.K. Singh Patel 26. Shri M. K. Raghavan 27. Dr. Anup Kumar Saha 28. Shrimati Meena Singh 29. Dr. Arvind Kumar Sharma 30. Shri Pradeep Kumar Singh 31. Shri Ratan Singh
SECRETARIAT Shrimati Vandana Garg, Additional Secretary Shri R. B. Gupta, Director Shrimati Arpana Mendiratta, Joint Director Shri Dinesh Singh, Assistant Director Shti Satis Mesra, Committee Officer
PREFACE
I, the Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, having been authorized by the Committee to present the Report on its behalf, do hereby present this Forty-second Report of the Committee on the Demand for Grants of the Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for the year 2010-11.
2. The Committee considered the various documents and relevant papers received from the Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and also heard the Secretary and other officials of the Department on the said Demands for Grants (2010-11) in its meeting held on the 6th April, 2010.
3. The Committee considered the Draft Report and adopted the same in its meeting held on the 26th April, 2010.
AMAR SINGH NEW DELHI; Chairman, th 26 April, 2010 Department-related Parliamentary Vaishakha 7, 1932 (saka) Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare
REPORT
I. INTRODUCTION
1.1 India, the second largest country in the world, also has the third largest number of people living with HIV / AIDS. As per the provisional HIV estimate of 2008-09, there are an estimated 22.71akh people living with HIV / AIDS in the country. The epidemic is concentrated among high risk group populations and is heterogenous in its spread.
1.2 The National AIDS Control Programme launched in 1992, is being implemented as a comprehensive programme for prevention and control of HIV / AIDS in India. Improved understanding of the complex HIV epidemic in India has enabled substantial changes to be made in the policy frameworks and approaches of NACP. The focus has shifted from raising awareness to behaviour change, from a national response to a more decentralized response and to increasing involvement of NGOs and network of people living with HIV / AIDS.
1.3 The National AIDS Control Programme Phase-III has been introduced with the aim to halt and reverse the AIDS epidemic in India over the five year period, i.e., 2007-2012. The programme hopes to achieve this through a four pronged strategy: