Haldwani HIV case: In a stunning incident, a minimum of 44 male prisoners and one female inmate have been discovered contaminated with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in a jail in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani district.
According to the information company ANI, the matter got here to mild throughout mass testing and added inmates contaminated with gentle signs got medication whereas others have been hospitalised for higher remedy.
“44 prisoners were found HIV positive in jail in Haldwani, one female prisoner has also been found HIV positive,” Dr Paramjit Singh, ART Center Incharge, Sushila Tiwari Hospital informed the information company.
An ART (Antiretroviral Therapy) centre has additionally been arrange for HIV sufferers, the place contaminated sufferers are handled, he added.
“My team constantly examines the prisoners in the jail and whichever prisoner is infected with HIV they are given free treatment and medicines based on NACO guidelines,” added Dr Singh.
How HIV infects the physique?
According to UK (*44*) Health Service (NHS), HIV infects the immune system, inflicting progressive injury and ultimately making it unable to struggle off infections. The virus attaches itself to immune system cells referred to as CD4 lymphocyte cells, which defend the physique towards numerous micro organism, viruses and different germs.
Once connected, it enters the CD4 cells and makes use of it to make hundreds of copies of itself. These copies then depart the CD4 cells, killing them in the method. This course of continues till ultimately the variety of CD4 cells, additionally referred to as your CD4 depend, drops so low that your immune system stops working. This course of could take as much as 10 years, throughout which period a affected person feels and seem nicely.
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