Positive one
In India, Star health and allied Insurance Company have announced to launch India’s first health cover for HIV positive persons by the next week. Under this scheme, a patient with a CD4 counts not less than 5oo cells per cubic millimeter of blood will have to pay an annual premium of Rs. 3000 and then company will afford hospital charges up to Rs.50,000 in severe stages of disease.
CD 4 count is used as indicator of immunity level of a patient and tells whether damage caused by the viruses requires life saving Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) .This test perform in combination with the viral load test. For a healthy adult CD4 count ranges from 500-1500 cells per cubic millimeter of blood .In a HIV infected person it goes down by 60 cells per cubic millimeter of blood per year as HIV progresses. ART is administered when an HIV positive person registered a CD4 count below 200.According to NACO, there are 2.5 million people with HIV in India.
Visit these pages for more information about-
CD-4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD4
ART
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiretroviral_drug
HIV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV
CD4 count
http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/cd4/test.html
viral load test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_load_test
Star health and allied Insurance Company
http://www.starhealth.in/
NACO
http://www.nacoonline.org/
In India, Star health and allied Insurance Company have announced to launch India’s first health cover for HIV positive persons by the next week. Under this scheme, a patient with a CD4 counts not less than 5oo cells per cubic millimeter of blood will have to pay an annual premium of Rs. 3000 and then company will afford hospital charges up to Rs.50,000 in severe stages of disease.
CD 4 count is used as indicator of immunity level of a patient and tells whether damage caused by the viruses requires life saving Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) .This test perform in combination with the viral load test. For a healthy adult CD4 count ranges from 500-1500 cells per cubic millimeter of blood .In a HIV infected person it goes down by 60 cells per cubic millimeter of blood per year as HIV progresses. ART is administered when an HIV positive person registered a CD4 count below 200.According to NACO, there are 2.5 million people with HIV in India.
Visit these pages for more information about-
CD-4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD4
ART
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiretroviral_drug
HIV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV
CD4 count
http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/cd4/test.html
viral load test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_load_test
Star health and allied Insurance Company
http://www.starhealth.in/
NACO
http://www.nacoonline.org/
Negative one
After Lucknow, It was turn of Kolkata to harass a HIV patient. A doctor in Mission of Marry Hospital and research Centre was bashed up by his colleague only because he was brave enough to admit a HIV patient. How inhuman it is especially when we claim that human being is the most civilized animal of this planet. I don’t believe in it. Thanks to patient’s colleagues which are still fighting against this injustice.
After Lucknow, It was turn of Kolkata to harass a HIV patient. A doctor in Mission of Marry Hospital and research Centre was bashed up by his colleague only because he was brave enough to admit a HIV patient. How inhuman it is especially when we claim that human being is the most civilized animal of this planet. I don’t believe in it. Thanks to patient’s colleagues which are still fighting against this injustice.
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