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JOINT EFFORT: Health Minister M. R. K. Panneerselvam launching TORCH in Chennai on Wednesday. (From left) Health Secretary V. K. Subburaj and Supriya Sahu, Project Director, TANSACS, are also in the picture. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu launched a government-supported mechanism to identify, fund and support high-quality operations research in HIV/AIDS. Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam released posters to mark the launch. Termed TORCH, the project that has been initiated by the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TANSACS) will be operationalised primarily in government medical college hospitals and district headquarters hospitals. It will be implemented in collaboration with the National Institute of Epidemiology; the Centres for Disease Control, Atlanta; the Government Hospital for Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram; and SAATHI, a non-governmental organisation. “The idea is to build research capacity within the government setup,” according to Supriya Sahu, project director, TANSACS. “There will be a lot of handholding in terms of proposal writing, research methodology and guidance during the research itself. Young doctors and researchers in government health institutions will be encouraged to take up research in key areas. Focus will also be on translating research into concrete action,” she said. The TANSACS will support five proposals at Rs. 5 lakh each, and a sum of Rs. 25 lakh has been allotted this year. Some of the areas of interest include patient satisfaction with services, barriers to delivery of services, adherence to Anti-Retroviral Therapy, HIV-TB co-infection, insurance schemes for people with HIV/AIDS, stigma and discrimination and prevention of parent-to-child transmission. Health Secretary V.K. Subburaj said the focus should be on using the results of research at the field level. There was great emphasis on and much funding for research in the West; as a result, there were many breakthroughs in science and technology. Michael Friedman, associate director, Centres for Disease Control, said Tamil Nadu had taken the lead in developing health systems in the country, especially in the HIV sector. He said the TORCH would build a much-need connect between the Anti-Retroviral Therapy centres and medical colleges.
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