The Institute of Infectious Diseases (IID) provides comprehensive care to HIV infected individuals and also conducts clinical research in HIV medicine and organizes education and training programs for health care workers in HIV management.

Mission statement
To provide evidence based and non discriminatory care to HIV infected individuals, conduct scientific research to address questions relevant to the developing world and focus on capacity building of health care workers through state of art and quality education and training programs.

Care and support
IID is a day care centre providing care and support to almost 4000 HIV infected individuals. Apart from clinical care it provides counselling and psychosocial support to HIV infected individuals. Patients needing in patient care are admitted at tertiary referral hospitals in the city.

The institute houses a laboratory which has facilities for confirmatory diagnosis of HIV infection and other co-infections, determination of CD4 counts, routine biochemistry tests and tests for work up of opportunistic infections. In collaboration with GeneOmbio (a molecular laboratory) IID provides access to plasma viral loads and genotypic resistance testing.

The centre also houses a pharmacy that provides antiretroviral therapy and drugs for opportunistic infections at a subsidized cost. Additionally pharmacists are also involved in helping patients adhere to antiretroviral therapy.

Clinical research
IID is involved in numerous research projects addressing issues relevant to the developing world. It is one of the centres of the TREATAsia (a network of clinical sites across Asia involved in research and education and training funded by the American foundation for AIDS research). Through this collaboration the centre is involved in contributing information to an Asian database (TreatAsia Observational Database). The centre will also participate in a antiretroviral drug resistance surveillance project across Asia as part of this network.

Education and training
IID has been involved in numerous training activities in HIV medicine for health care workers across the country. These include weekend workshops and symposiums, hands on clinical training programs for clinicians and a 2 week annual training course in HIV medicine in collaboration with the University of South Florida through its CHART (Centre for Health and AIDS research and training) initiative. The curriculum for these training programs are tailored according to the needs and covers a wide range of topics ranging from primary care to advanced principles of management with antiretroviral therapy. Web based training programs have been evaluated and on-going mentoring support is provided to health care workers. Monitoring and evaluation is inbuilt into the program activities.