Which of t he following is not true about National AIDS Control Programme-
Ans. is 'b' i.e., Community based screening for prevalence of HIV taken up o In April 2002, the Government of India approved the National AIDS prevention and control policy. o The objectives included reduction of the impact of epidemic and to bring about a zero transmission rate of AIDS by year 2007. o The components are : ? 1. Blood safety programme o Guidelines for blood bank, blood donors and dialysis unit have been formulated. The strategy is to ensure safe collection, processing, storage and distribution of blood and blood products. Testing of every unit of blood is mandatory for -> HIV, HBV, HCV, malaria. .9philis. o The specific objective of blood safety Programme is to ensure reduction in the transfusion associated H1V transmission to less than 0.5%. 2. Voluntary counselling and 11 1 V testing. 3. STD control programme I-11V is transmitted more easily in the presence of another STD. Hence early diagnosis and treatment of STD in now recognized as one of the major strategies to control spread of HIV infection. 4. Condom promotion 5. HIV surveillance -4 HIVsentinel surveillance, H1V sero-surveillance, AIDS case surveillance, STD surveillance, Behavioral surveillance. 6. Targeted intervention to reduce 'he transmission of HIV amongst the most vulnerable population. 7. School AIDS educational programme. 8, Information, education, communication and social mobilization. 9. Family health uwarness campaign 10. Anti-retroviral treatment (A) Integrated counselling and Testing centres (ICICs) More than 75% of WV infected are not aware about their status and there is a need to extend access to the counselling and testing facilites and increased demand generation. o ICICs have been established at ? ti) Medical colleges iii) Sub-district level hospitals ii) District hospitals iv) Community health centres. o it is proposed to fuher exend the services to 24 hours PI-ICs. o Prevention of parent to child transmission --) Women who are found to the HIV positive are given single dose of prophylactic Nevirapine at the time of labour and newborn infant is also given a single dose of nevirapine within 72 hours of bih. o National paediatric AIDS initiatives a Provision of A to children infected and atTected by H1V. Paediatric drugs are provided at all A centres. Other activities are free CDH monitoring, free DNA-PCR testing for children upto 18 months, diagnosis & treatment of oppounistic infections, micronutrient supplementation, training of paediatricians and counselors.
Sentinel surveillance methodology has been adopted
Community based screening for prevalence of HIV taken up
Early diagnosis and treatment of STD is one of major strategy to control spread of HIV
Formulating guidelines for blood banks, blood donors & dialysis units