Because, failure to get treatment eventually leads to resistance to frontline drugs.

Pardeshi also unhappy that the proposed link ART centres are not operational yet and people still need to travel great distances to avail themselves of treatment in urban areas.

The NMP+ has urged the Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society to take the matter up with the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation.

World Aids Day functions in the city are set to be subdued this year due to the terror attack in Mumbai.

World Aids Day: life-saving lessons
Injecting drug use (IDU) is an important cause of HIV transmission and for the first time, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has embarked on a pilot projects in two jails (Tihar and Arthur Road) in the country to sensitise prisoners about the use of oral substitution therapy. NACO Programme Officer (IDU) Dr Ravindra Rao told The Indian Express that there was an estimated two lakh injecting drug users in the country and at least seven per cent of them were infected with HIV. In fact according to the Lancet (November 15 issue) about three million people who inject drugs may be HIV positive worldwide