Fighting AIDS: HIV patient to join Shilpa in campaign

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Fighting AIDS: HIV patient to join Shilpa in campaign

Friday September 30 2005 11:47 IST

UDUPI: It¡¯s a dream come true for Shanthi Norohna, 30-year-old HIV

patient-turned-AIDS awareness activist from Padubelle in Udupi

district. Shanthi will join her favourite Bollywood star Shilpa

Shetty in spreading AIDS awareness message on October 4.

Shilpa Shetty will be in Udupi on October 4 and 5 as part of India¡¯

s largest HIV/AIDS awareness mass media campaign Haath Se Haath

Milaa (HSHM) launched by BBC World Service Trust in association with

Doordarshan and NACO.

As part of the programme Shanthi, along with the students of

Milagres College, Kallianpur, will join Shilpa Shetty to spread

awareness HIV/ AIDS. The programme includes producing a weekly,

reality TV show, focussed on youth Haath Se Haath Milaa to be

telecast on DD 1, reaching out to over 58 million viewers.

Shanthi¡¯s episode will be shot in Mumbai and Udupi and at Milagres

College campus.

An inter-collegiate dance competition, discussion on AIDS prevention

has been organised and the screening of a non-commercial film Phir

Milenge, directed by Revathi, in which Shilpa played a key role with

Salman Khan, will also be screened.

Shilpa will judge the final rounds of dance competition, participate

in the discussion and be part of the screening of her film.

HSHM will feature Shanthi as a Yuva Star, who being a HIV positive

made an outstanding contribution towards spreading awareness about

HIV/AIDS.

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