Angola to study India's AIDS management

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Angola to study India's AIDS management

Mumbai, Oct 6. (UNI): A 15-member delegation from Angola is arriving

here tomorrow to look at AIDS Management and the quality of generic

anti-HIV drugs manufactured in India.

The delegation, led by Angola's Vice-Minister of Health Dr Van-

Dunem, and coordinated by Yasin Karim of Luanda, will visit pharma

major Cipla Ltd, which has agreed to supply AIDS medicine at an

affordable price.

With the advent of medical treatment, including anti-retroviral

therapy (ART), combined with humane care and behaviour modifications,

HIV patients can lead a healthier life, making HIV a chronic

manageable illness.

The Unison Medicare & Research Centre (UMRC) would assist the Angolan

Government in this endeavour.

The Indo-Angola collaboration would see a 'Comprehensive HIV Care

Clinic' in that country's capital, Luanda, this December on World

AIDS Day.

This comes as a follow-up of an initiative to train doctors in Africa

in " Comprehensive HIV Management in Resource-poor Settings " and to

replicate the UMRC, which has been acclaimed as a model of HIV care

in resource-poor settings, at Geneva in 1998.

Beginning from 2002 to early this year, AIDS expert Dr I S Gilada had

extensively travelled to several African countries to train doctors

in HIV care management and to play advocacy role with the respective

governments for utilising low-cost Indian skill s in HIV management

and Indian-made generic medicines, a statement here said.

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