'Jasoos Vijay' back on DD1 from Sept 4

September 2, 2005

'Jasoos Vijay', a BBC World Service Trust (charitable arm of the

BBC), Doordarshan, National Aids Control Organisation partnership

production is back in Season 3, this time with more innovations and

more creativity to explain the proper terminology of AIDS, the main

course of action this season would be to make audiences understand

that AIDS, is an acquired immunity and not a adaptive immunity.

'Jasoos Vijay', the interactive detective drama on DD 1 in the prime

band of 8:30 PM starting September 4, 2005, comes with a strong

special message that Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDS, a

human viral disease that ravages the immune system, undermining the

body's ability to defend itself from infection and disease are

harmless in healthy people, but in those whose immune systems have

been greatly weakened, they can prove fatal. Although there is no

cure for AIDS, new drugs are available that can prolong the life

spans and improve the quality of life of infected people.

Om Puri, host the show, who says that Jasoos Vijay apart from

entertaining the audiences will also explain that Infection with HIV

does not necessarily mean that a person has AIDS. Some people who

have HIV infection may not develop any of the clinical illnesses

that define the full-blown disease of AIDS for ten years or more.

Physicians prefer to use the term AIDS for cases where a person has

reached the final, life-threatening stage of HIV infection. Farhaam

Khan, is the main lead, who plays Jasoos, the detective in Jasoos

Vijay. Whitehead, Director, BBC World Service Trust India,

says, " We are bringing the series back with NACO, for only one

crucial reason, we desire to promote the awareness about HIV/AIDS. "

Note that, the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the

World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that worldwide 40 million

people, including 2.5 million children under the age of 15, were

living with HIV infection or AIDS. The WHO, a specialized agency of

the United Nations (UN), estimated that from 1981 to the end of 2002

about 20 million people died as a result of AIDS. About 4.5 million

of those who died were children under the age of 15. UNAIDS and the

WHO reported that 3 million people died in 2003 alone from AIDS, and

5 million more people became infected with HIV.

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