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Mamata Banerjee: West Bengal tops in curbing parent-to-child HIV transmission
Updated On: 18 May, 2018 10:50 AM IST | Kolkata | mid-day online correspondent
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), an agency under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has played an important role in controlling the spread of HIV and the treatment of AIDS patients since early 1990s
Mamata Banerjee. File pic
West Bengal has been certified as the number one state in preventing parent-to-child transmission of HIV, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. "I am proud to say that the central government agency NACO has recently certified Bengal as Number 1 in preventing parent-to-child transmission of HIV," Banerjee tweeted on the HIV Vaccine Awareness Day.
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