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Orientation programme for outreach workers
Staff Reporter
It will provide home-based care for HIV/AIDS patients Workers to provide nutritional education, anti-retro viral therapy
MADURAI: The Family Planning Association of India organised recently an orientation programme on home-based care for outreach workers who care for people living with HIV.
The aim was to equip the workers to handle opportunistic diseases and provide first aid to the victims with materials available at home, Louis S. Paulraj, branch manager of the association, said.
Help with medicines
The workers would also help the HIV-infected people in treatment of fever, cough, cold, skin problems, vomiting and nausea, mouth ulcer, oral candidasis (fungal infection) and skin rashes, according to project coordinator A. Shyamala Devi. The outreach workers would also offer allopathic medicines from their first aid kit, if need be, she said. If the situation was unmanageable, they would refer the patients to hospitals.
Good basic care could be given at home. Home care was less expensive, Mr. Paulraj explained, as it saved hospital and transport bills.
Home care service would also enable the people with HIV to protect themselves from common opportunistic infections with the help of their family members, who would be able to provide them with physical as well as psychological support.
Besides the treatment for common opportunistic infections, the outreach workers would provide nutritional education and anti-retro viral therapy and monitor Cluster Differentiation 4 (a measure of immunity) to enhance the quality of life of the victims.
Thirty-one members of the Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Management Project that covers seven blocks of Madurai district (Tirupparankundram, Tirumangalam, T. Kallupatti, Sedapatti, Usilampatti, Chellampatti and Vadipatti) took part in the programme.
Mr. Paulraj, Ms. Shyamala Devi and Dorathy Chellappa, medical officer, were the resource persons. The association will organise a follow-up programme.
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