Centre of Excellence in HIV Care
Faculty and Staff
Name |
Designation |
Prof (Dr.) Subhasish Kamal Guha |
Programme Director |
Dr. Dolonchampa Modak |
Deputy Programme Director |
Dr. Nivedita Dutta |
Senior Medical Officer |
Ms. Rajyasree Ghosh (De) |
HIV Research Fellow (Non-Clinical) |
Mr. Sudip Rana |
Data Analyst |
Ms. Rinita Ghosh |
SACEP Co-ordinator |
Ms. Paramita Saha |
Nutritionist |
Mr. Ismail Hussain |
Training & Mentoring Co-ordinator |
Mr. Sanjay Bhandari |
Laboratory Technician |
Ms. Tanusree Bhattacharyya |
Social Worker |
Ms. Soumi Sengupta |
Social Worker |
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 2024 |
Number |
Total No of SACEP Meeting |
52 |
Total Referrals for SACEP |
520 |
Total reviewed patients |
510 |
Total PVL (Including RPVL) |
370 |
Other Services
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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
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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
- Study of the DTG induced DILI
- Study of DTG tolerance in Hepatitis B & C co-infected patients
- Histoplasma detection by urinary LFA kits
- Estimation of prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis infection among PLHIV