Re: Call for a US Faculty to lecture on Rehabilitation of PLWHA

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM,

It is such a pity to know that you need an US expert as a faculty as if our

country doen not have experts in HIV/AIDS.

How long these poor Indians keep on licking the boots of white skinned people of

US and Europe. There should be an end to it.

May be these poor Indians like to smell dollars by inviting the rich Americans.

I see this disease is more virulent and infectious than HIV/AIDS in India.

Please publish this mail of mine. It is important to convey this strong message

to the spineless people of this unfortunate country.

with lot of sorrow and pain,

Nilim

Nilim Gangopadhyay

e-mail: <nilim_g4@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

Actually in my understanding there was demand from organiser for the US expert

working in the rehabilitation field of HIV AIDS patients as in our country, we

are still struggling with the availability of treatment only.

This is a new concept coming up and USA has a well defined cohort of AIDS

patients of last 25 years. very few persons globally are working on the medical

rehabilitation of AIDS patients (for example vision loss due to CMV or with

neurological disorders) how to improve the quality of life among them and how to

socially, psychologically and economically rehabilitate them.

What is the rehabilitative model they have developed if any. We know there is no

dearth of our own Indian talents and almost all basic research in field of ART

drug development and work at genetic level (whether it is fusion inhibitors) in

USA is being done by Indian scientists, but at the same time we have to admit

that some concepts are novice for us and there may be some advanced

understanding in US, not because of their talent but because of the resources

that they have and because of the long AIDS patients cohort they have.

Dr Diwakar Tejaswi

Medical Director

RATNEI

e-mail: <diwakartejaswi@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM,

This is in response to Dr. Gilada's observations. Re: Call for a US Faculty to

lecture on Rehabilitation of PLWHA

While acknowledging your expertise and contributions in last two decades, and

also being a silent follower and having heard of your fame since I also got into

the field of public health in 1991, I am sure the organisers of the workshop

have only asked for one US or a foreign faculty.

This does not imply overt dependence on such experts. I am sure that number of

Indians will be at least 100 if not more at the venue.

And I complement the organisers to have been ahead of their time to think about

rehabilitation of PLHA, when the world is only talking of ARTs & Prevention

What IHO in Patna has done for Bihar and NE, in last 3 years is as commendable a

model that's need to be replicated in other parts of India.

Today, the world is only focused on Maharastra, TN, Kartnatka and Gujarat.

Hoping, Hon. Laloo Yadav may read this and is awakened to lead this effort in

Bihar.

Dr HS Ratti

e-mail: <ratti2@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM,

I agree with Dr. Ratti's explanation that calling foreign experts doesn't mean

" over dependence " . I would say its a healthy practice to keep interacting to

facilitate exchange of information, experiences and expertise- the so-called

'cross fertilisation' process, but of course provided the local experts also

play an equal role (rather lead).

On the other hand I am not sure the if call was for non-US foreign experts also.

It would be very interesting to look out for experts from other developing

countries in Asia or Africa that have similar contexts.

Besides this I am sure IHO is doing a great job and so is the contribution of

Dr. Gilada. We are all cogs of the same wheel with a common objective- war

against HIV!

Cheers!

Stobdan

Dr. Stobdan Kalon

Medecins du Monde-France

e-mail: <skalon@...>