'HIV counselling, test centres in Delhi lack privacy'
Privacy
of patients who go for HIV
testing and counselling in the national capital's government hospitals
remains a prime concern as many of them don't have separate counselling rooms
for males and females, a study has found.
The
study, titled "Integrated Counselling and HIV Testing Centres of Delhi: An
Evaluation", by Dr Anita Khokhar, Director Professor, Community Medicine,
Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, along with Dr Vinoth
Gnana Chellaiyan of the Department of Community Medicine at Chettinad Hospital
and Research Institute, Kelambakkam, Chennai, revealed that a majority of the
Integrated Counseling and HIV Testing Centres (ICTCs) in the national capital
lacked separate rooms for male-female counselling and nor was there adequate
space inside the allocated room.
According
to the National AIDS
Control Organisation (NACO), 93 medical facilities under the Centre and
the state governments in Delhi have ICTCs. Eleven medical facilities provide
Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART). These include AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital,
National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Lok Nayak
Hospital, RML Hospital and GTB Hospital, among others. Read
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