Sunday 20 October 2013

Educating youth on HIV/AIDS

Speakers at a consultative  called for imparting life skills-based education(LSBE) and creating awareness about sexual and  health and rights with  on HIV and AIDS.
Schools4Life, a project of the Idara-i-Taleem-o-Aagahi, on Monday  hands with the Punjab Aids Control Programme (PACP) with the objective of developing life skills among students between the ages of 13 and 19 years. The speakers agreed that well-informed youth could halt the spread of HIV in society.
Speaking on the occasion, PACP Director Dr Salman Shah said there were around 5,000 reported cases of HIV and AIDS and around 3,000 of them had been registered at designated centres in the province. He said there were some districts in Punjab with people deported from various countries, including Gulf states, whom had transferred the virus to their wives that resulted in HIV-positive newborn babies.
Dr Shah said the PACP had developed a strong network with some 70 NGOs working for HIV/AIDS across Punjab and would continue to support other NGOs endeavouring to play their part in creating awareness and controlling spread of the virus. He said the PACP would organise programmes in schools and colleges besides launching a campaign in print and electronic media.
He said HIV as well as  and C were blood-borne diseasesPACP Treatment Coordinator Dr Tayyaba Rasheed said there were around 124 children admitted to a specialised centre at Services Hospital. She said many children had contracted HIV from their mothers, while cases were still being reported that children and people were contracting HIV during blood transfusion. She stressed would-be mothers must be regularly.
EDO (Health) Zulfiqar Chaudhry stressed NGOs must come forward and lend a  to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
ITA Deputy Director Imtiaz Nizami and Schools4Life Project Coordinator Naveed Sehar explained the project’s objectives. PACP Deputy Director Faisal Majeed and District Education Officer Aneela Qaiser also spoke on the occasion.
AIOU: The  is beginning workshops for postgraduate classes from Tuesday (today).
According to a press release, the workshops would continue for 20 days. Experts from print and electronic media organisations and senior teachers from different universities would deliver lectures.
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 and could infect people through infected syringes and unscreened . He also said there were 92,000 female sex workers in Punjab, but only 15,000 were being covered under the HIV and AIDS control programme.

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