Full Document (English) - POLICY Project

20
Already, 765 doctors and paramedical workers have been trained from 153 public
and private medical colleges, as also 710 health workers from 142 district hospitals
to form PPTCT teams. Already, 225 PPTCT centres have begun providing PPTCT
Table 2
Indicator
New ANC registration
Total
407,830
Percent
-
services with trained counsellors to maintain quality.
A summary of the performance from 179 of the 225
institutions till September 2003 is presented below:
Women counselled – ANC 306,972 75.27
Women tested – ANC 245,299 79.91
Women who came to pick their
test results – ANC 168,444 68.67
HIV + women – ANC 4,449 1.81
NACO is also attempting to streamline the process of
procurement and logistics of distribution of Rapid
HIV tests and nevirapine, and eventually, the
complete integration of the PPTCT into reproductive
and child health services.
HIV + women – Labour 748 2.15
HIV + women who came to pick
up their results – ANC 2,153 48.39
Partners of HIV + women who
came for VCCT 2,081 40.04
Total live births to HIV+ woman 2,200
Total mother-baby pairs who
received NVP 2,198 99.9
Toxicity with NVP Nil -
HIV+ mothers who chose
to breastfeed their babies 1,231 55.95
Capacity Building and Institutional
Strengthening
Capacity building of health care providers through
training at the regional level, state level, and below is
a key objective of the second phase of National AIDS
Control Programme. The training is essential as a
sustained tool to strengthen various institutions in
dealing with HIV/AIDS control activities.
Capacity building programmes are organized by the
National AIDS Control Organization at national and
regional levels for training of trainers (TOT). These
trained trainers are the key resource persons used by the State AIDS Control Societies
to train health care providers in their respective states. The following categories of
health care providers have been covered under various capacity building programmes:
Specialist doctors of Medical Colleges
General duty Medical Officers
Nurses
IEC Officers
Counsellors
NGO staff
Lab Technicians
Blood Bankers
District Nodal Officers
Vaccine and Microbicides Research and Development
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in December
2000, with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) to promote and
accelerate efforts to develop an indigenous AIDS vaccine that will address the strains
of the HIV-1 subtype C predominant in India. The MVA-based vaccine has not yet
reached the stage of clinical trial. Two ICMR institutions, namely, National AIDS
Research Institute in Pune and the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric
Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata, are carrying out vaccine-related work.
Prevention of
HIV/AIDS in Uttar Pradesh