Proud Moment. Our Dear Munu Ka Syed Ahmed getting life time achievement ERDF Excellence award 2015 for his work on AIDS in NE States.His NGO AIDS PREVENTION SOCIETY,GUWAHATI.
A Message From Dr.Syed Iftikhar Ahmed
My dear friends,
I really feel honoured to have recieved the ERDF Excellence
Award 2015 from the Honb'le. Chief Minister of Assam and his kind words of
praise recognizing our
work .
It has been a
long journey.
I feel overwhelmed
with your warmth and wishes which makes me feel that the last 30 years of my
struggle was worth fighting though when I look back I miss all those
colleagues, friends and hundreds of young lives that we have lost on the way
particularly in Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram. . It was a frustrating fight.
But I did not lose focus. My Heroin drug
user population with HIV and Hep B
and Hep C co infection were dying fast even before we could initiate
ARV . When I was invited by the President of the UN to the UN General Assembly
in New York in 2008 and again in 2010
, I raised the issue of this co inf in
North East India. Advocacy paid off .
Today we have range of free ARTs in India and Hep treatment with Heroin
substitution with Buuprenorphine in north east India unthinkable ïn the
past. My clients are living healthy and
productive for more than 20 years . HIV
is now a chronic manageable disease . I
had to explain this in the Legal Colloq. for two days through my
presentations convened by Justice
Ranjan Gogoi which was inaugurated by the Chief Justice of India and in
presence of a large number of legal
luminaries of the country .
Currently our organisation is involved in AIDS Vaccine development programme in collaboration with International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative - IAVI.
Thanks again to all
of you.
Dr Syed Iftikar Ahmed
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I started my NGO work in Guwahati after my return from UK with the establishment of AIHC ( Assam Imdadiya Hospital Committee) in 1983 and the AAIS Clinic in Ambari in 1984. Late Shri Hiteswar Saikia , the then Chief Minister of Assam helped us and encouraged us in establishing the AAIS Clinic and seen in the pic examining him in the Clinic on the opening day . Today on his Death Anniversary we pay our homage to him . As founder Chairman of the Clinic along with our team of medical doctors comprising Dr Medhi and Dr M I Khan could provide free medical services to a large number of people since then including Lab Tests, Immunisation , regular health camps and Eye Check up Camps with Cataract surgeries throughout the state of Assam .
More about the NGO on www.apsindia.org
I started my NGO work in Guwahati after my return from UK with the establishment of AIHC ( Assam Imdadiya Hospital Committee) in 1983 and the AAIS Clinic in Ambari in 1984. Late Shri Hiteswar Saikia , the then Chief Minister of Assam helped us and encouraged us in establishing the AAIS Clinic and seen in the pic examining him in the Clinic on the opening day . Today on his Death Anniversary we pay our homage to him . As founder Chairman of the Clinic along with our team of medical doctors comprising Dr Medhi and Dr M I Khan could provide free medical services to a large number of people since then including Lab Tests, Immunisation , regular health camps and Eye Check up Camps with Cataract surgeries throughout the state of Assam .
More about the NGO on www.apsindia.org
