Wake up to HIV/AIDS, hair dressers told

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Wake up to HIV/AIDS, hair dressers told

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2005 02:33:47 AM ]

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CHANDIGARH: The Citizens Awareness Group in collaboration with the

State AIDS Control Society, UT Chandigarh organised a seminar on

HIV/AIDS for hair dressers, roadside barbers and beauty parlours at

Female Literacy House, Sector 42 to create awareness on HIV/AIDS.

Speaking at the seminar, Dr Inderjit Kaur Walia, Director Health

Services, UT Chandigarh highlighted the precautionary measures to be

adopted to curtail the HIV/AIDS. She also said, already 1,500 cases

of HIV positive had been identified in Chandigarh itself. She lauded

the efforts of the society in collaborating with various NGOs to

generate awareness about HIV/AIDS and provide the best possible

testing and counselling facilities to the patients from the entire

region.

Surinder Verma, Chairman, Citizens Awareness Group explained, how

hair dressers and beauty parlours are high risk professions due to

the nature of their trade. He stressed the need for the use of

hygienic methods in the trade. Verma said: " To avoid the spread of

infection, barbers should make use of sterilised or disposable

razor. The best policy is to use fresh blade after every shave.

The IEC project for awareness generation among hair dressers and

beauty parlours was started on February 19 from Female Literacy

House and within this period about 2,200 individual counselling

sessions have been held. Also 42 awareness generation camps were

organised and 530 aluminium plates were fixed carrying instructions

for the hair dressers/beauty parlours.

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