AIDS prevention: 1.5 lakh medicos to be trained

July 31, 2006

Monday July 31 2006 13:05 IST

BHUBANESWAR: A lot has been said about HIV/AIDS. Yet when it comes

to the ground level, not much has been achieved either in case of

ascertaining the spread of the disease or in preventing the menace.

The reason, according to technical expert of Clinton HIV/AIDS

Initiative (CHAI), USA, Dr Samarendra N Misra, is that educating

people about HIV/AIDS and its prevention in India is too

complicated, as it has to deal with socially sensitive issues.

The number of HIV infections in the country is difficult to

determine, but according to estimates of UNAIDS, around 5.7 million

people are living with it, said Misra at a training of the trainers

(TOT) workshop for medicos on HIV/AIDS organised in association with

Indian Medical Association (IMA), Orissa State Branch and NACO here

on Saturday.

CHAI will provide advance training programmes on HIV/AIDS to about

1,50,000 medicos in the country; he said and added that about 5,000

doctors in five States had been trained.

The training programmes are being conducted in the Capital cities of

various States and the doctors attending the training programme will

further carry out the programme at the district levels. Plans are

afoot to impart training programme to nurses and laboratory

assistants too.

IMA national president Dr Sudipto Roy inaugurated the two-day

workshop. Around 50 doctors from twin cities of Cuttack and

Bhubaneswar attended the workshop.

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