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How to facilitate early detection of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and put them on ART as soon as possible?

How to facilitate early detection of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and put them on ART as soon as possible?
Start Date :
Jan 01, 2015
Last Date :
Nov 26, 2014
04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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India has an estimated 20.9 lakh people living with HIV. However, nearly 30 -35 percent of these do not know there HIV status. After a person gets infected with HIV, there is a ...

India has an estimated 20.9 lakh people living with HIV. However, nearly 30 -35 percent of these do not know there HIV status. After a person gets infected with HIV, there is a long asymptomatic period of 5-8 years when infected person may not have any symptoms till his immunity goes down significantly and he start getting different opportunistic infection like TB, diarrhoea, fungal infection etc. Hence most of the HIV infected persons present to health system in late stage when immunity is very low and their response to treatment may not be optimal. Also during this long asymptomatic period of 5-8 years, though they are infected but may not be aware of HIV status and are capable of spreading the infection their spouse or others if they continue to indulge unprotected sex.

Early detection of PLHIV is beneficial for patient himself as he can receive timely appropriate treatment including ART as well as for the community to stop further transmission of HIV.

We invite suggestion from community/ NGO/ CBO/ Civil society and public at large their views/ ideas on How to facilitate early detection of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and put them on ART as soon as possible.

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Last date for sending your suggestions is 26th November, 2014.

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ajeetalbert91
ajeetalbert91 10 years 5 months ago

Target Primary Health Centre for rural areas and hospitals for urban areas. Ensure that all patients who come in for any complaint will be screened for HIV. With minimal budget, we can find many asymptomatic or subclincal carriers and thereby making available the treatment needed at PHC too.

ajeetalbert91
ajeetalbert91 10 years 5 months ago

Let HIV tests be freely made to every patient who is attending a PHC for the first time and also to those who have suspective history or symptoms. By this,almost all people will be covered for we have ensured that almost every place has a PHC there. And treatment must be monitered like we are doing for DOTS for those who are not compliant.

ajeetalbert91
ajeetalbert91 10 years 5 months ago

Every pregnant patient,irrespective of her HIV status,will be tested when comes for her Ante-Natal checkup. Let us implement the same to all patients coming to a hospital,irrespective of age and gender,who come for any complaint to be screened for HIV.Unlike what we did for polio,routine house to house visits for surveillance maybe difficult here. But still surveillance to give special attention to high risk areas will be beneficial.

ankitsachan10
ankitsachan10 10 years 5 months ago

Pls ,put the solder recruitment in Kashmir under "pilot project" the community they belong to can't trust they can fight to us in the long run and support to Pakistan as a battalion of Kashmir with our weapons and welcome pak army from behind,community they belong do every work for their religion and become more religion supporters as get literate and prosperous..
pls,take in mind i am not against recruitment but they should recruited under pilot project and do not mix them to our core army.

Madhu Vajpayee
Madhu Vajpayee 10 years 5 months ago

Dear Sir,I am a doctor involved with management of People Living with HIV.Following changes in the system will go long way in improving the situation.
1.Voluntary Counseling & Testing Services need to be strengthened in a big way.Even in hospital like AIIMS, infrastructure for providing counseling services is very poor and people are discouraged to go ahead with services.
2.Antenatal women are still not fully covered by testing.They need to be tested, identified & given ART to save newborns

cmchordia.jodhpur
cmchordia.jodhpur 10 years 5 months ago

Government must remove restriction of Iodine Salt and allow public to take Salt of their choice. For more clarification Visit http://www.chordiahealthzone.in

m.wannasay
m.wannasay 10 years 5 months ago

Sir,

In all the health related plans and campaigns, one key person is always overlooked.
One, who is the custodian of medicines, manages drugs, dispenses them to patients. And that person is a Pharmacist.

Pharmacists play a key role in health sector, yet, he is always overlooked. There is no promotion for him. Things have come to a position that no Pharmacist advises anybody to become a pharmacist.

Govt. must make full use of potential of Pharmacist in all health plans and schemes.

rajeshmn111
rajeshmn111 10 years 5 months ago

> Early detection of PLHIV can only be achieved by continuously broadcasting/telecast symptoms associated with HIV infection.
> The number of PLHIV identified should be taken note before and after advertising in all hospitals across India
> The lab facility is very poor in most of the rural area should be upgraded with the help of private and public partnership.

indersinghdp
indersinghdp 10 years 5 months ago

भारत में रहने वाले हर नागरिक के लिए सम्मान नगारिक संहिता लागू करनी चाहिए हर नागरिक two बच्चे पैदा करें

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