With more than 7,000 people living with HIV/AIDS and more than a thousand having died of complications associated with the disease since 1990, Mizoram is the state with the second highest incidence rate in the country, Health Minister Lal Thanzara said Monday. Lal Thanzara, however, admitted a change in the way funds are released from the Centre has led to some complications in the fight against the disease even as opposition MLA Dr K Beichhua, to whose starred question the minister was replying to in the assembly, expressed fears such a situation may make Mizoram become the state with the highest incidence rate of HIV/AIDS. According to Lal Thanzara, 9894 people among the 4.57 lakh who have been tested for HIV have been found positive. Of these, 1038 have died due to complications brought on by the virus.

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