Bengaluru, Aug. 1 -- The Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) has dismissed reports circulating in sections of the media and on social media claiming that 7,000 college students in the State had tested HIV positive, terming the information "false" and misleading.

In a clarification, KSAPS said the figure had been wrongly interpreted from data relating to people receiving Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and did not indicate HIV infections among college students.

KSAPS said the Mobilisation for AIDS Suraksha (MAS) programme has been launched to curb the spread of HIV infection in Karnataka and create awareness among college students through an eight-month Red Ribbon Awareness Campaign.

According to KSAPS, an estimated 56,000 peop...