Centre of Excellence in HIV Care

Faculty and Staff

Name Designation
Dr. Dolonchampa Modak Programme Director
Dr. Soumendra Nath Haldar Deputy Programme Director
Dr. Nivedita Dutta Senior Medical Officer
Mr. Biswait Roy Data Analyst
Ms. Rinita Ghosh SACEP Co-ordinator
Mr. Ismail Hussain Training & Mentoring Co-ordinator
Mr. Sanjay Bhandari Laboratory Technician

Patient Care Services

Clinical Expert Panel

State AIDS Clinical Expert Panel (SACEP) meeting on every Monday.

  • Patients experiencing treatment failure with first line HIV antiretroviral treatment (ART), second line ART, Third line ART and HIV associated illness, ART related side effects/complications from different ART and ART Plus centres from West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Assam and Sikkim are referred to SACEP.
  • Referrals are discussed and decisions regarding eligibility of antiretrovirals for treatment failures, complicated new initiations, complex opportunistic infections, drug intolerance and systematic illness are taken in presence of HIV/AIDS experts.
SACEP in 2025 Number
Total No of SACEP Meeting 46
Total Referrals for SACEP 439
Total reviewed patients (new) 434
Total reviewed patients (follow up) 253
Total PVL (Including RPVL) 245

Other Services

  • Third line and CoE stock patients are followed up through
    • Adherence monitoring
    • Counselling
    • Recommendations of Routine blood mandatory tests
    • Plasma viral load and CD4 testing
    • Home visits (as per requirement)
    • MIS patients tracking - by telephone calls and home visits
    • Adherence counselling done for all SACEP attending patients
  • Cryptococcus antigen screening by using various qualitative & semi- quantitative kits of indoor and STM ART registered PLHIV
  • In-depth analysis on all ART centres in West Bengal under Centre of Excellence in HIV Care (CoE), STM Kolkata
  • Mentoring Visit :CoE have led to improvement in quality of Care at attached ART Centres
  • Nutritional counselling
    • Nutritional counselling for all Third line patients and first line, second line as per requirement
    • Facilitates linkages with nutritional supplementation schemes of Govt Departments and NGO
    • Attending Diabetic nutritional OPD on every Tuesday

On-going Research Activities

  1. Study of the DTG induced DILI
  2. Study of DTG tolerance in Hepatitis B & C co-infected patients