AIDS in India

AIDS in India
By Chakarapani Srinivasa

Attacking AIDS in India

HIV/ AIDS are too attacked at all levels in India to over come disaster. Prevention as well as control of this dreadful disease is being taken in a full fledged condition. Millions of dollars are flowing in to attack this menace. Bill Gates leads them all in contributing $100million grant. There is a prediction that 30millions will be attacked by AIDS in India. Govt. of India has raised to the fullest extent to save the innocent and poverty stricken Indians from this AIDS. The drugs available are expensive to overcome this problem and the TamilNadu State AIDS Control Society feels that one has to spend Rs3000/month for medicines alone. Hence crores of foreign funds have to be spent for drug apart from propaganda services to prevent HIV/ AIDS.

National AIDS control organization helps the people living with AIDS for the past 20 years. The first attack of AIDS in India was identified by Suniti Solomon. Another lady by name Khausalya mooted the idea of starting positive women’s network in Chennai. She admits that more money is spent for expensive publicity rather than for care of the HIV- AIDS patients. This is probably disheartening as many still suffer for want of medicines, ward beds and isolated accommodation. The TamilNadu state govt. gives a helping hand but it is not sufficient to meet the demand. Mother to Child’s Transmission Project was started by TamilNadu and it had successfully implemented it in more than a dozen medical college hospitals in the state and in many districts headquarters hospitals. Though it is expensive much attention is given to anti retroviral therapy offered to several lakhs of pregnant women. Dr. Suniti Solomon claims that

TamilNadu leads other states in India when considering the rigorous campaign against HIV/AIDS and intensive care taken in hospitals like Tambaram hospital specially meant for this dangerous disease. Every month the no. of patients approaching for treatment has been increasing from 700 to 2000. The facilities available to tackle it are in a bad condition. There are only 700 and odd beds even though in-patients have crossed 1000. In Tambaram many are made to lie on the floor and verandah which itself spreads to the visitors and the entire arena badly.

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