Dakshina Kannada district has witnessed a steady decline in HIV/AIDS cases since the last several years. District health and family welfare officer Dr Ramachandra Bairy said that awareness programmes ...

Mangaluru: District health officer Dr HR Thimmaiah said that while Dakshina Kannada has 10,431 people living with HIV (PLHIV), nearly 81% among them contracted it due to unprotected sex. On the ...

Amid a significant decrease in the number of HIV-infected persons in Dakshina Kannada, the district administration took out jathas in Mangaluru and other parts of the district on account of World AIDS ...

In fact, 60 pregnant women had tested positive for HIV infection in 2007-08, which has come down to 2 this year till date ...

Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner H. V. Darshan on Wednesday instructed the Department of Health and Family Welfare to conduct HIV test for drug addicts. Speaking at Mission AIDS Suraksha Abhiyan ...