HIV Lab Network Launched at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

 In order to fulfill Health Transformation Plan, HIV Lab Network has lately been launched in Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at Deputy for Health at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Public Relations of Health Center in Mashhad reported.

Head of Network Development and Health Promotion at Deputy for Health Mohammad Hasan Derakhshan, PhD, said, “HIV Lab Network is regarded as a vital step to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission as well as to monitor and treat HIV patients.”

“Co-venturing with Diseases Management Center at Health Ministry along with Health Reference Lab, HIV experiments are performed by learned health experts at comprehensive health centers as well as by behavioral diseases centers via Rapid.Test,” he noted.

“Positive results will subsequently be explored via ELISA method and two different 4^th generation kits in laboratories of other cities.”

Moreover, Fatemeh Kiani, an expert in charge of laboratories of Deputy for Health at Mashhad university of Medical Sciences, held that drug resistance will be studied via molecular techniques in HIV Reference Lab.

“The laboratory will investigate the diagnosis items related to faculties of medical sciences in Mashhad, North Khorasan Province as well as cities of Nishapur, Torbat-e Jam, Torbat-e Heydarieh, Sabzevar, Gonabad, and Esfarayen,” she maintained.