Over 25% of School Girls in India Are HIV+ Because Of 'Sugar Daddies' Advantaged

At least 28% of schoolgirls in India are HIV positive because 'sugar daddies' are taking advantage of them, the country's health experts warned. In contrast,  experts highlighted the fact that only 4% of schoolboys were HIV positive, The survey revealed.

Experts released the figures at a 'social health experts' meeting held recently in Hyderabad. "It is clear that it is not young boys who are sleeping with these girls. It is old men. We must take a stand against sugar daddies because they are destroying our children," experts cautioned.

They said 94,000 schoolgirls fell pregnant in India in 2011, with around 77 000 having abortions at public facilities. "We can no longer live like that. We want to put an end to it, " they declared.

Some of the girls who became pregnant and tested positive for HIV were reportedly between the ages of 10 and 14.

Social Health Experts have been widely praised for their efforts to help stop the spread of HIV, within the country backing the world's largest anti-retroviral programme.

Around 10% of India's population is now living with HIV, official figures show.