Ahmedabad: HIV Workshop for GPs

[Guest guest]

AIDS Related Diseases and Their Management: A workshop for General

Practitioners. 10-11 May, 2003

Dr. Jivraj Mehta Asmita Bhavan, Civil Hospital Compound, Asarwa, Ahmedabad

Gujarat AIDS Awareness and Prevention (GAP ) is a unit of ISRCDE, working in

the field of HIV/AIDS for the last 14 years. GAP is a non-governmental

registered organization.

On the 10th and 11th May, 2003, GAP is organizing a workshop with General

Practitioners of Ahmedabad city on AIDS Related Diseases and Their Managment.

GAP got the inspiration to organize this workshop after meeting more than 800

medical practitioners of Ahmedabad city who expressed their desire to attend a

workshop which will give them the exposure on AIDS related disease and their

management.

The challenge, all of us are face, is that, as the epidemic matures and as

more and more people will get ill, and the current health system needs to be

geared up. What GAP would like to achieve through this workshop is, is early

detection of disease, the general practitioners could be equipped enough to

diagnose and treat people clinically and GAP as partner should be able to

extend the emotional support to the infected and affected and help them live a

quality life.

It is with these objectives, a one and half day workshop has been organized for

the general practitioners of Ahmedabad city who had been already in contact with

GAP. Almost 100 General Practitioners of Ahmedabad city will be participating

The two day workshop will be inauguarated by Honourable Mayor of Ahmedabad, Ms.

Aneesa Begum Mirza, at 3.00 p.m. on 10th May 2003.

Dr.Sadhna Gupta, Dean-B.J.Medical College; Dr.Arul S.Rhaj, National President,

Indian Medical Association, Dr. Dilip C. Vaidya, President, Ahmedabad Medical

Association and Dr. R.B. Deshmukh, Project Director-Gujarat State AIDS Control

Society, will also be attending the workshop.

The workshop program includes presentations on Managment of Opportunistic

Infection in AIDS patients, Clinical Management of STD/RTI, Dual Epidemic:

HIV/AIDS and TB, Information on HIV test and CD4/CD8 count in the diagnosis &

managment of HIV/AIDS, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, A

General Practitioner's experience on HIV/AIDS and others.

Organized by : Gujarat AIDS Awareness and Prevention (GAP) unit -ISRCDE

E-mail: gapad1@...