NDMC to offer ARVs for PWAs

[Guest guest]

NDMC testing centre for HIV:

The Times of India 1 October 2001,

NEW DELHI: The New Delhi Municipal Council is planning to start a voluntary

testing and counselling centre for HIV positive persons in the Capital from

October 2. The centre-which is to be the first of its kind-will also provide

anti-retroviral drugs to those who test positive, marking NDMC the first

government agency to do so.

Equipped with two trained counsellors, technicians and doctors, the centre will

function out of the NDMC polyclinic located near Gole Market in central Delhi.

It will be open from 8 am to 3 pm and, depending upon the response, the timings

will be gradually extended.

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Dr. Jagdish Harsh

François-Xavier Bagnoud (INDIA)

E-mail: jamworld@...

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