Chandigarh, April 5 -- Pregnant women and their spouses in Haryana will undergo simultaneous HIV and syphilis testing, expanding screening to prevent mother-to-child transmission and early detection, said additional chief secretary (ACS), health, Sumita Misra on Saturday.

The ACS, while chairing the 23rd executive committee meeting of the Haryana State AIDS Control Society (HSACS), said that as per National AIDS Control Society's revised antenatal care (ANC) estimation, the screening target in Haryana stood at 5,95,880 women in 2025-26.

"Under the revised approach against an ANC screening target of 5.95 lakh pregnant women for 2025-26, the state will conduct nearly 12 lakh dual HIV-syphilis tests annually to include spouses, aiming to e...