Symposia on Recent Trends in AIDS Treatment organised at Varanasi

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Dear Forum,

Symposia on " Recent trends in AIDS treatment " was organized on 19th of December

2008 at India Hotel, Varanasi. 25 Senior Physicians from Varanasi, Jaunpur and

nearby Cities attended the workshop.

Key Note Speaker was Dr Diwakar Tejaswi, Medical Director, Regional AIDS

Training Center and Network in India (RATNEI), International Health

Organization, Patna and session was Chaired by ART Center incharge of Institute

of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Dr (Prof) Shyam Sundar

Agarwal.

Dr Diwakar Tejaswi discussed the 25 agents from 6 classes of available Anti

Retrovirals with their side effects and distributed the drug drug interaction

chart. He also elaborated the advantages of once a dose therapy along with

different options. Dr Shyam Sundar infomed that more than 6000 patients are

enrolled at IMS BHU ART Center and the number is growing fastly.

Mr Gyanesh Ranjan

Public Awareness for Healthful Approach for Living (PAHAL)

Harinarayan Complex, Exhibition Road

Patna 800001

India

Telefax: +91-612-2206964

Dr Diwakar Tejaswi

E-MAIL: <diwakartejaswi@...>