Mysore/Mysuru, Dec. 1 -- Health Minister Dinesh Gundurao said that the Government is making efforts to make Karnataka AIDS and HIV Positive free by 2030.

He was speaking after inaugurating World AIDS Day-2025 organised jointly by the Health and Family Welfare Department and Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society at MMC&RI Platinum Jubilee Hall in J.K. Grounds here this morning.

"AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) was first detected in 1981 and grew into a deadly disease in 5 years. According to available statistics, as many as 1,16,200 people have died of the deadly disease in the State in the period between 2001 and 2025. There was no proper medicine then for curing the deadly disease in the beginning, which posed a big challe...