Affiliated to the BMC, the MDACS programme will include educating school and college students about the disease, working with high-risk groups on prevention and making the city a ``100 per cent condom covered'' place.

Mumbai has 3,893 HIV-positive cases, 50 per cent of the cases detected in the state. Of these, 3,379 people have AIDS. In 97 per cent of the cases, the mode of transmission is unsafe sex. The remaining three per cent contract the disease via blood transfusions, used syringes and infected mothers. BMC commissioner K Nalinakshan said the BMC also plans to introduce sex education in schools.