Alaka Deshpande
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indian medical doctor and social worker
 | This article relies on a single source. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Alaka Deshpande" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Dr. Alaka Keshav Deshpande was an Indian physician and social worker known for her work towards AIDS patients. She was a faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine at Grant Medical College and JJ Hospital Mumbai and in 1990, started the first HIV OPD (Out Patient Department). She established and headed the Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) section from 2003-04 till 2011. She was noted to have not taken any salary for this tenure from the hospital. In 2001, she was presented with Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian honour. She died on December 30, 2025 after battling a critical illness.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ Shelar, Jyoti (3 December 2011). "JJ politics pushes out city's face of HIV care". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 11 February 2019.