This World AIDS Day, Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society (MSACS) brings relief to hundreds of HIV-infected prisoners from Byculla and Arthur Road jails. For the first time, the government body will start link anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centres at prisons where the patients will be given the medicines. Besides this, an link ART centre will be opened at the police hospital.

Until now, the police had been taking the inmates to JJ Hospital for their regular dose of medicines. MSACS is planning to start these centres to make the process easier.