Attending a seminar on HIV, recent advances on it, by Dr. M. A. Balasubramanya, CEO of Swami Vivekananda youth movement.
The pathology hall, this is my first time here. But it’s awesome – large (enough to school accomodate at least three hundred people easily), with an entrance that directly lead to the back rows, and I almost went back from right at its door thinking there’s nobody present while there actually was about hundred students from all years.
And it started off with a nice description of the doctor’s first day in MBBS (guessed right, he is an MMC alumni)
Turning into the purpose of learning medicine. Service?
Vivekananda used to say all there beautiful inspiring things. Yeah, like it was said in the hostel days before.
Health, education, socioeconomic empowerment and education something are the four sections in which SVYM works.
HIV!
started its journey in 1986 in India.
1992 NATO established.
National AIDS Control Program (NACP) phase 1 launched in the same year, extended till ’99
And preventive health care, making people socially and economically productive is what p&sm deals with.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a retrovirus (converts RNA into DNA) that is found only in human beings and can survive only in humans.
AIDS.
HIV type 1, 2. Subtypes.
Helper cells, cytotoxic cells
Lifecycle of the virus
In CD4 cells.
Starts off as viral fever. 6-12 weeks, no positive HIV test.
In 5-10 years, AIDS develops.
For a kid born to HIV mother,rapid test can confirm AIDS only after 18 months.
Routes: sex, mother, blood, needles
Getting to zero: zero new infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths
Counseling is very important because the doctor or nurse will not always be taking care of the patient.
And integrated counseling an
and testing centre should be the entry point of any patient
Five blood tests on donation: hepatitis b, c, malaria, HIV, syphilis
Stigma!
We have not grown, as a society, to accept sex and related topics as a part of life and discuss them.
And then it continued, about palliative care and so on.
Compliance and adherence.
The speaker got a slip to remind him of time? I left.
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