Summary: Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Sept 4 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Wednesday said that people undergoing HIV treatment can now avail free travel service in the state buses to
Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centers to avail medical facilities.
Anti-retroviral drugs are given to HIV patients to help them live longer, but the patient still remains HIV-positive.
Prior to this outbreak, there were over 1200 children diagnosed with HIV who are receiving
anti-retroviral treatment in the country, the statement said.
LARKANA -- More than 500 patients have registered in just ten days at the new
anti-retroviral therapy centre for children that opened on May 10 in Larkana, a city hit by an HIV crisis.
The numbers of people living with HIV/ AIDS (PLHIV), who avail ART (
Anti-Retroviral Treatment), have been increasing over the years.
Seventeen lakh of PLHIV will be put on free
anti-retroviral treatment by end of project period.
The Department of Health (DOH) has assured people afflicted with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that government has enough supply of
anti-retroviral drugs (ARV).
This means that someone who has HIV, and isn't taking
anti-retroviral treatment, will find it harder and harder to fight off infections and diseases.
Bulus said there was the need for government to step up its funding to ensure that the over 3.1 million people, who are on
anti-retroviral drugs in the country did not perish for lack of drugs.
Other strategies include giving
anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs to people who are not infected with HIV, but are at high risk of infection.
She said this should be with a view to ensuring students in boarding schools who are on
Anti-Retroviral Therapy have no challenges.
Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) effectively suppresses replication, if taken at the right time.
