APSACS

The government rollout of ART in India is led by NACO, which works through the state AIDS contol societies. In Andhra Pradesh, this is done by APSACS. The ART Centres include Osmania General Hospital, Gandhi Hospital, Niloufer, and the Chest Hospital. Here, patients who have CD4 counts less than 200 receive free first line [...]

Access

My aunt is a retired women’s health specialist, but still maintains a part-time practice at a small, nearby hospital (“nursing home”; not in the American sense). She has only been there a few weeks, and prior to this, she worked at a charity hospital. She told me an interested story about HIV and access to [...]

Niloufer

I went to Niloufer Children’s Hospital today, saw the ART Centre, and spoke to the superintendent. It was a different experience for me, being an internist, but one that definitely made me think a bit.
Niloufer is a government hospital, much like Osmania General Hospital and Gandhi Hospital here in Hyderabad. It is fairly close [...]

Shamshabad

The new airport in Hyderabad is nice. I don’t know how old the old one was, but it was small, dirty, and inconvenient for the high flow there in recent years. With the development of the IT sector in Hyderabad (“Cyberabad“), the city desparately needed a larger airport. The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport opened [...]