A parliamentary panel has asked the Health Ministry to make a "realistic" appraisal of the fourth phase of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) which comes to an end this year. With around 2.27 million people suffering from AIDS in India, the Committee of Petitions on Health Ministry has also asked it to undertake an advance planning for continuity of the programme by weeding out deficiencies. In February 2014, the government launched the fourth phase of anti-AIDS/HIV strategy under the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). The committee noted that this five-year plan (2012-17) aims at sustaining and building up on the results of NACP-III phase. The committee said that it would like to be apprised of the detailed appraisal exercise taken up by the Ministry.

Source: dna March 18, 2017 15:33 UTC