Medicine supply for PLHA during NEM

TANSACS Project Director S Natarajan told DTNext that all the 55 ART centres in the state are ready to face such a contingency during this year’s northeast monsoon. A monsoon-preparedness meeting was held last week, with the counsellors and outreach workers, to ready the database of PLHA and the supply of medicines. The PLHA can avail of two months medicines at a time this season and all ART centres across the state will have stock of one month’s medicine, the project director said.

The Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission (PPCT) of HIV/AIDS programme, implemented in 2013, has boded well for Tiruchy district, with no newborn babies showing signs of HIV from 2014, although their parents are living with HIV. Data available with the District AIDS prevention and Control Unit indicates that there were only three babies were born in 2013 with HIV in 2013. Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) medical officials point out the fact that there is a good awareness on HIV infection among general public.