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Amid shortage of AIDS drug, UT relies on nearby states -Naina Mishra

-The Tribune

Patients being provided medicines for one month only

Chandigarh: Reeling under a shortage of medicines used in the treatment of patients infected with HIV, the Chandigarh Health Department is relying on other states to meet the demand.

There are 231 HIV positive patients in the city, of whom six are pregnant women. The adult HIV prevalence in Chandigarh has decreased from 0.5% in 2003 to 0.25 % in 2006 and has remained at 0.25% to date.

Antiretroviral therapy (ART), which is available at private pharmacies and shops, is expensive. Dr VK Nagpal, Director, State AIDS Control Society, said, “There has been a shortage in the whole of the country as the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) is facing a difficulty in supplying the drug. We are stocking the medicines from the nearby states of Punjab and Himachal, so as to provide the same to AIDS patients.”

“Earlier, we used to provide patients with medicines for three months, but now, we are able to give them these medicines for only a month. We even procured the medicines from national vendors at our own level as NACO has failed to supply fresh stocks,” said a doctor.

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