India should lead in HIV/AIDS management

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India should lead in HIV/AIDS management: Volberding

PTI [MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2004 08:43:50 PM ]

MUMBAI: With the affordable treatment mode available for HIV/AIDS in

India , doctors here have to take a lead in monitoring and management

of the disease, said Dr Volberding, one of the co-discoverers of

the first HIV cases in the world.

" The challenge before the Indian doctors is to set up a large number

of testing centres. It would be easier than before as there is an

assured treatment mode which is available at an affordable cost

here, " Volberding from University of California , San Francisco who

is on a four-day visit, said.

Volberding, who was a cancer specialist, discovered the first case of

HIV/AIDS in 1981 in his famous 5 A ward of General Hospital in San

Francisco .

Even after 22 years of discovering the first HIV/AIDS case, " the

understanding of human immune system is still incomplete and we are

carrying out a number of experiments in vitro and in vivo to come to

terms with the disease, " he said.

Volberding who had been to the pharma major Cipla on Monday said, " we

(non-governmental agencies) are trying to work out methodologies how

to work together with pharma companies to give people of the world

affordable medicine. "

Attending a closed door two-day conference on AIDS here, he said

India should also be using the information dissemination as an

important tool in the management of the dreaded disease.

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