Jamshedpur: Lacks AIDS drugs. Australia-India Council (AIC)

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State lacks AIDS drugs

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Jamshedpur, May 20: The state lacks anti-retroviral treatment (ART)

facilities to treat patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

It also does not have medical professionals who can give information

about the availability of drugs. These facts were highlighted by

officials of Australia-India Council (AIC), an inter-sectoral

collaboration providing technical clinical training to doctors, lab

technicians and paramedics working for HIV/AIDS control programmes.

Alison Duncan, chief pharmacist at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, who

headed the three-member AIC team, said, " The state does not have ART

drugs needed for treatment of HIV/AIDS patients. " Duncan was here to

impart training to nurses and lab-technicians to control the menace.

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