A total of 1,207 people have been found HIV positive across the country while 12,000 are believed to be carrying the virus, says a surveillance study report. The rate of HIV positive among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Dhaka city is seven percent, it added. Quoting the government's 7th round of HIV surveillance study and UNAIDS study, experts revealed the information at a seminar on 'HIV/AIDS for students' at Brac Centre Inn in the city yesterday. Centre for Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS, a UNAIDS collaborating centre at the James P Grant School of Public Health at Brac University, organised the seminar. Around 200 students, doctors and professionals from all the private and public universities in the city took part in the programme. The organisers said,