213 HIV-positive women give birth to healthy babies
As many as 213 HIV-positive women gave birth to healthy babies in Chhattisgarh government hospitals in 2016-2017, said state's health official R Prasanna. Of the 3,93,475 pregnant women examined, 232 were tested HIV-positive. The state has 26,000 HIV-positive people and of them, 10,289 were being given medicines through five Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) centres and 12 ART linked centres, he said.