Some groups have higher infection rates, however.
The report, released on the occasion of the World AIDS Conference in Geneva, also says 350,000 adults and children were estimated to have died of AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in India, with 140,000 lives lost in 1997 alone. Another 120,000 children have been orphaned on account of the AIDS-related death of their parents. Of the 4 million infected individuals in India, women account for 1 million and children 48,000.