Gujarat High Court has issued notice to the National Aids Control Organization-NACO over a Public Interest Litigation. High Court has demanded the adoption of faster method of detection of HIV prior to blood transfusion. One Babulal Thakkar filed the PIL citing a news paper report on the new method of testing.Mr. Thakkar, a lecturer from Ahmedabad has requested the court to direct the authorities including NACO to do away with the present method of detecting HIV in India, which through the Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test or the anti body test. Petitioner submitted that ELISA test has a window period of three months, and hence the risk in blood transfusion increases. He has sought this method to be replaced by Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, where there is no window period. After hearing the petitioner, a bench of Justices Bhaskar Bhattacharya and justice J B Pardiwala issued notice to NACO, and kept further hearing on 9th August
News On AIR | July 13, 2012 9:28 AM
Guj HC notice to NACO on PIL for adopting faster HIV detection method