Re: Urgent need for CME for HIV Medicine

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM.

Mr. Banta is raising a very pertinent point. Most of the members of the medial

profession are still not exposed to the HIV/AIDS treatment protocols etc. In

fact there is even a lot of misunderstanding among many of them about

patient-doctor transmission. Hence there is a lot of discrimination existing in

hospitals. NACO and state AIDS cell are organising training programmes for

doctors. But this appears to be not enough to cover large number of doctors. But

there is a space for educating doctors in the CME programmes organised by

professional organisations like Associations of Surgons, Physicians etc. They

orgaanise a number of CMEs round the year.

We can suggest to these organisation to include topics especially treatment

protocols in these CMEs and suggest a few committed professionals to present

the topics.

Dr.B.Ekbal

E-mail: <ekbal@...>