karnal as many as 150 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection hiv positive including 11 pregnant women were reported in karnal district between january and july this year at the integrated counselling and testing centre ictc of the health department hereaccording to the data provided by the karnal district health department of the 27646 people including 11912 pregnant women tested for hiv during this period 150 were found hivpositive in these seven months 12 coinfectionrelated cases were also reported and two persons died due to the virusthere are six centres of ictc in the district including karnal civil hospital assandh civil hospital kalpana chawla medical college karnal nilokheri civil hospital gharaunda chc and indri chcas many as 71 cases were detected in karnal civil hospital alone among these seven hiv cases were reported in january 12 in february 11 in march three in april 11 in may 18 in june and nine in julydeputy civil surgeon dr simmy kapoor in charge of the hiv control programme said a total of 150 new hivpositive cases were reported in the first seven months of this year now there are 436 active cases of hiv in the district they are being provided both counselling and treatmentaccording to dr kapoor aidsrelated deaths have gone down substantially in the district from 36 in 2010 to just 11 in 2019she said hiv is transmitted from one person to another through unsafe sex and exchange of blood and blood products etc although there is no cure for hiv with right treatment and support such patients can live a healthy life she said adding that they had been regularly conducting awareness programmes