<p>Dr Ishwar Gilada, an infectious diseases expert and a consultant for HIV/STDs has been re-elected to the Governing Council of International AIDS Society (IAS).</p>.<p>Dr Gilada is currently serving his first term at IAS’s Governing Council, to which he was elected in 2018. He would be representing Asia and the Pacific region in the Society.</p>.<p>Elected members to the IAS Governing Council will formally take office around the time the International AIDS Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, in August this year.</p>.<p>Dr Gilada is noted for starting India’s first AIDS Clinic in 1986 at Mumbai’s government-run JJ Hospital. He is also credited as the person to first raise alarm in 1985 against the AIDS epidemic in India.</p>.<p>He has been widely acknowledged for bringing India to fore in the global effort to control AIDS.</p>.<p>“The promise to end AIDS by 2030 is enshrined in the Government of India's National Health Policy 2017, as well as United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Ending AIDS is also a human rights imperative. We have the tools to diagnose everyone living with HIV, we have the tools to provide lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART),” Dr Gilada remarked in a press statement.</p>.<p>“Though India ranks third in the HIV-case load, more than 80 per cent HIV patients from 168 countries are accessing India’s affordable and accessible generic antiretrovirals (ARVs). India is a saviour globally, responsible for saving millions of human lives. India has also played a key role globally in HIV research, but not a single global AIDS conference has been held in India historically,” he said.</p>.<div>He serves on the Government of India’s Technical Resource Groups on ART at the National AIDS Control Organisation, and co-chairs private sector engagement in ART. He is also the Secretary General of Organised Medicine Academic Guild; President of AIDS Society of India and Secretary General of People’s Health Organisation-India.. </div>
<p>Dr Ishwar Gilada, an infectious diseases expert and a consultant for HIV/STDs has been re-elected to the Governing Council of International AIDS Society (IAS).</p>.<p>Dr Gilada is currently serving his first term at IAS’s Governing Council, to which he was elected in 2018. He would be representing Asia and the Pacific region in the Society.</p>.<p>Elected members to the IAS Governing Council will formally take office around the time the International AIDS Conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, in August this year.</p>.<p>Dr Gilada is noted for starting India’s first AIDS Clinic in 1986 at Mumbai’s government-run JJ Hospital. He is also credited as the person to first raise alarm in 1985 against the AIDS epidemic in India.</p>.<p>He has been widely acknowledged for bringing India to fore in the global effort to control AIDS.</p>.<p>“The promise to end AIDS by 2030 is enshrined in the Government of India's National Health Policy 2017, as well as United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Ending AIDS is also a human rights imperative. We have the tools to diagnose everyone living with HIV, we have the tools to provide lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART),” Dr Gilada remarked in a press statement.</p>.<p>“Though India ranks third in the HIV-case load, more than 80 per cent HIV patients from 168 countries are accessing India’s affordable and accessible generic antiretrovirals (ARVs). India is a saviour globally, responsible for saving millions of human lives. India has also played a key role globally in HIV research, but not a single global AIDS conference has been held in India historically,” he said.</p>.<div>He serves on the Government of India’s Technical Resource Groups on ART at the National AIDS Control Organisation, and co-chairs private sector engagement in ART. He is also the Secretary General of Organised Medicine Academic Guild; President of AIDS Society of India and Secretary General of People’s Health Organisation-India.. </div>
