About YRG CARE

Prof. Suniti Solomon, MD, Founder-Director of the YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE) and her team documented the first evidence of HIV infection in India in 1986, when she was a Professor of Microbiology at Madras Medical College. She subsequently established the institution, which currently provides medical and psychosocial care for more than 17,000 persons with HIV disease and conducting several international clinical trials and educational/training programmes. YRG CARE is one of the multi-sites of NIH (USA) clinical trials.

YRG CARE Infectious Diseases Laboratory is accredited by NABL (ISO 15189:2007) and participates in several national and international QA/QC programs, including College of American Pathologists (USA), UK NEQAS (UK), DigitalPT (USA), NRL (Australia) and VQA (USA).

The experts/scientists of YRG CARE have contributed to develop several laboratory/treatment guidelines of WHO (Geneva), WHO-SEARO (New Delhi) and, Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute (USA).