Delhi to get HIV/AIDS tele-medicine facility

May 10, 2010

New Delhi, May 7: A tele-medicine facility for HIV infected patients is being

set up on a pilot basis in the Center of Excellence, Maulana Azad Medical

College, New Delhi said Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dinesh

Trivedi in reply to a question raised in Lok Sabha on Friday

The project, called Project DISHA is a joint collaboration between University of

New Mexico, USA and National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Govt. of India

and the facility will link Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) centres in remote areas

with the Centers of Excellence (COE).

The interaction between medical officers at ART centres with specialists at

Centers of Excellence will promote access to better knowledge and practices that

will translate into better care for the HIV patients at these ART centers.

Assistance of World Health Organization (WHO) was sought and obtained in

strategic planning of prevention, treatment and control measures for HIV/AIDS

since the time the first case of HIV was reported in the country.

Specific technical assistance is being received for surveillance for identifying

and tracking the epidemic, screening of blood for blood borne pathogens to

ensure safe blood transfusion, expanding the counseling and testing facilities

in the country.

Also technical assistance in scaling up of Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for

adult and paediatric HIV infected patients, monitoring and determining,

emergence and levels of HIV Drug Resistance, scaling up of prevention of mother

to child transmission facilities, establishing measures to manage HIV/TB

co-infections will be received.

Periodic training workshops on rabies are being conducted at National Centre for

Disease Control as a part of WHO Biennium activity.

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