Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART) Centre

Anti Retroviral Therapy comprises ARV drugs that are given to HIV infected individuals, once they have advanced immune-suppression. ART suppresses viral replication, slows

In the state, every year there is an addition of nearly 4000 new individuals to PLHIVs linelisting.Keeping this in mind, OSACS has been up-scaling the ART services in the state since 2006.

10 Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART) Centre is functional in the state at 3 Medical college hospital, DHH, Koraput, Balasore, Anugul, Bolangir, Capital Hospital, RGH and SDH, Bhanjanagar. Drugs for AIDS patients are available in the ART centre.

Apart from ART, drugs for Opportunistic Infections and condoms are available with the ART centres.

It has been proposed that persons coming to the ART centres for antiretroviral treatment as well as CD4 testing would be reimbursed their travel costs, since it has been observed that a number of cases are lost to follow up due to lack of funds to travel to the ART centre.