New Delhi - In the Executive Committee meeting of National Integration Assembly (NIA) held here today accused the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO), for giving false figures that new HIV cases have come down by 95 per cent in just a year.

Dr. Raj Baldev, the President of the NIA said that the NACO should recheck their figures, which totally misguide the data of the new cases of HIV infections. If this figure is taken as correct, it means that the patients have no faith in this organization at all either directly or indirectly and also in those independent research organizations who provide this information to the NACO.

"According to our information and survey data the patients are on the fast increase, the infection is spreading deadly and there arises no question of figures going so drastically down," Dr. Raj Baldev said.

Mrs. Tripta Bhatia, the NIA Vice President, said," The figures given by the NACO shall also misguide the USAID, The United States development arm, who are taking the figure as it.  It is not a matter of pleasing the USAID by giving low figures, but it is the moral, national and international duty of the officials of the NACO to apprise them of the right figures so that they may chalk out the relief program accordingly.
 
Mr. Dev Prakash, NIA Vice President, who is dedicated to apprise the diplomat circles about helping the AIDS program, said, " The National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) should call for the explanations of the agencies and organizations who supplied this wrong information."

Nitin Raj, NIA representative, sent a message from London,  "The Indian health workers have rightly whipped up a controversy when they expressed doubts over the new Aids figures released by the government,"

Mr. P. Pagella, NIA Representative from Rome sent a message," If totally low wrong figures are furnished to the USAID, it shall not be possible for India to get proper relief for the affected people. By doing so, it shall be a human crime on the parts of those who are attempting to sabotage the relief program of the AIDS affected people."

The National Aids Control Organisation (Naco), announced this week that only 28,000 new cases of HIV infections were reported in 2004 compared with 520,000 in 2003, according to the latest data. The figures have come down by 95 per cent in just a year, as compiled by two independent research organisations.

According to Gulf Daily News, an official at USAID, the United States development arm, said that the agency supported the government claim, but pointed to NACO head S Y Quraishi's assertion that the figures needed to be treated with caution.

But many said the estimates could lull the anti-Aids effort into a false sense of success.

"We feel there's something drastically wrong with the figures given. We have absolutely no idea how they have come to these figures," said Ryan Fernandes of Sahara, a New Delhi-based voluntary group working with HIV-positive women.

"At the grassroots level, we find things are much more different. Everyday we are getting to know of new cases."

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