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Alaka Keshav Deshpande is: an Indian medical doctor and social worker known for her work towards 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's 4th highest civilian honour.

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