Alaka Keshav Deshpande is an Indian medical doctor and social worker known for her work towardsAIDS patients. She worked atJJ Hospital Mumbai and in 1990, started the first HIV OPD (Out Patient Department). She established and headed theAnti-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 withPadma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian honour.[1]