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Complacency breeds failure: Consolidate efforts to #endAIDS by 2030

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) [ Watch this video interview ] [ Listen or download the audio podcast ] Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease decreases, there is a tendency to disregard it as a public health problem. Even as the HIV/AIDS epidemic is on the decline in India, we have to intensify, and not dilute, our efforts to have virtual elimination of the disease, emphasised Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar , Director-in-charge at National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). He spoke with CNS (Citizen News Service) at the sidelines of the 9th National Conference of AIDS Society of India (ASICON 2016). This interview is part of CNS Inspire series – featuring people who have decades of experience in health and development, and learning from them what went well and not-so-well and how can these learnings shape the responses for sustainable development over the next decade. ...

[Focus] Complacency will be a kiss of death for efforts to #endAIDS by 2030

[Podcast] Complacency will be a kiss of death for efforts to #endAIDS by 2030

[ Click here to listen or download this podcast ] Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar , Director in-charge of National AIDS Research Institute of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has worked on HIV since 1989, few years after first case got diagnosed in India. He has played a key role in shaping India's health policy on a range of aspects related to HIV care and management. [ Click here to listen or download this podcast ]