Propsal: Indian HIV Association (IHIVA)

[Guest guest]

As I have been working on the latest developments around best

practice in HIV management I came upon another site in Britain and

from that site I have an idea that might be a good lead up to a

best practice model for HIV care in India with the formation of an

Association that will ensure latest developments are known and

that practitioners are linked to one another and linked to the

rest of the world via such sites as the HIV division of the

National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases and others.

Of course it will be yet another layer upon a significant stable

of HIV practitioners and NGO providing services but it does seem

to be a potential National organisation that might assist in

moving policy and maintaining standards and advocating for

affordable medicine before too many more people die.

Of course it should be adequately resourced and have a form of

membership and accreditation.

My feeling is that the organisation's Aims should read like the

following and it should have a web site and a means of accrediting

members. It should run conferences and in particular accredit HIV

Practitioners and as a service to the HIV care industry provide

members with the latest most up to date information by ensuring

access to free membership subscriptions to international agencies

offering best practice information.

Aims and Objectives:

A. For the relief of sickness and protection and preservation of

health through the development and promotion of good practice in

the treatment of HIV and HIV related illnesses and in such other

charitable ways as IHIVA through its Executive Committee may from

time to time decide.

B. To advance public education in the subjects of HIV and the

symptoms, causes, treatment and prevention of HIV related

illnesses through the promotion of research and the dissemination

of the useful results of such research and in such other

charitable ways as IHIVA through its Executive Committee may from

time to time decide.

Now I wonder what others would think about this idea in India and

if you want to see what the British Association looks like and the

way in which it is structured go to:

http://www.bhiva.org

Geoff Heaviside

E-mail: gheaviside@...