A Dubious Indian Claim

This just seems impossible to me:

NEW DELHI: Bringing a glimmer of hope in the campaign against AIDS, India recorded a 95 percent fall in the number of new infections in 2003-04, according to the ministry of health and family welfare.

With 28,000 new people infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2003-04 compared to 520,000 a year before, the number of HIV positive patients was estimated to be 5.13 million at the end of 2003-04. Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, however, said on Wednesday that the government would not show any complacency in the fight against AIDS, which has killed 1,114 people in 2004 in India compared to 1,514 a year ago.

520,000 to 28,000? Call me a skeptic, but that is an astounding claim. Has there ever been a 95% reduction of any communicable disease in one year? If this is true, they have got to forward the plan on to Africa.