Paediatric ART Center Established At Wadia Hospital For Treatment Of Children With HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that tends to breaks down certain cells in your immune system i.e. your body's defence against diseases that helps you stay healthy. The causes can be attributed to blood transfusion, sexual abuse, and also children can acquire from parent. Due to the lack of treatment, one with HIV is likely to suffer from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Currently, there is no cure for HIV, but with the help of antiretroviral therapy, it can be managed. To end the HIV epidemic, Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children has come up with a unique Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model of Paediatric ART centre in association with NACO which was inaugurated by Dr. Srikala Acharya of Mumbai District AIDS Control Society.

 
Dr Ira Shah, a leading paediatric who has been looking after HIV infected children since 2001 will be heading the Paediatric ART center. “With the establishment of the Paediatric ART centre at B J Wadia Hospital for Children in Mumbai, children with HIV can get a holistic paediatric treatment under one roof with the help of a team of experts. Earlier, around 1.5 per cent of infants in Mumbai would get HIV from their mother. But now the percentage is lesser than that.”