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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian medical doctor and social worker|bot=PearBOT 5}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Alaka Keshav Deshpande&#039;&#039;&#039; is an Indian medical doctor and social worker known for her work towards [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] patients. She worked at [[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&#039;s 4th highest civilian honour.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web | url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/jj-politics-pushes-out-citys-face-of-hiv-care/articleshow/16185310.cms | title=JJ politics pushes out city&#039;s face of HIV care | publisher=Mumbai Mirror | date=3 December 2011 | access-date=11 February 2019 | author=Shelar, Jyoti}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Medicine}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Deshpande, Alaka}}<br /> [[Category:Indian health activists]]<br /> [[Category:Social workers]]<br /> [[Category:Indian women medical doctors]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Indian medical doctors]]<br /> [[Category:Living people]]<br /> [[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine]]<br /> [[Category:Medical doctors from Maharashtra]]<br /> [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century Indian women]]</div>

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