Ishwar Gilada
Medical Doctor
HIV management
Unison Medicare and Research Centre, India
India
Biography
Ishwar Gilada is a Medical Doctor, specialized in Skin and STDs with special training in HIV management. He is the founder of India’s first private sector comprehensive HIV Care clinic, President of AIDS Society of India and is Secretary General of Peoples Health Org. India. He was the Jt. Sec. of National AIDS Committee, Govt of India (1995-97). He was the first to raise alarm against AIDS in 1985, is known for bringing India on AIDS control map, had started India’s first AIDS Clinic-1986 and has expertise in HIV care in resource-poor settings. He had trained several Doctors, Nurses and Social workers. He was Editor-Publisher of AIDS ASIA from 1993 to 2008. He has initiated, managed, supervised, evaluated over 40 HIV/AIDS projects in India, addressed over 3700 public meetings and training programs in India and abroad, has 280 scientific papers at conferences, written chapters in books on AIDS/STDs. He was consultant for American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), World Vision, USAID; has more than 65 awards to his credit including the "Outstanding Young Person of the World" –Glasgow in 1995 and Annemarie Madison Award-Germany in 1999 in Munich, Germany where he was termed as ‘the Indian Machinegun against AIDS’.
Research Interest
HIV management
