Varanasi: UP AIDS Conference, Social rights of AIDS patient must be safeguarded’

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Social rights of AIDS patient must be safeguarded'

HT Correspondent

Varanasi, February 4. CHAIRMAN OF the Uttar Pradesh IAS Association

and State Road Transport Corporation Shambhu Nath Singh said that

there was a need to check the rapid spread of HIV in the country.

Speaking as the chief guest at the three-day international conference

on AIDS, he said people should enjoy a safe lifestyle that would also

help in checking the spread of HIV menace. The seminar was organised

by the psychology department of the MGKV in association with UNICEF,

UP State AIDS Control Society.

The massive level of awareness amongst the masses against the AIDS is

the best way to check this menace, he said. He also said that people

should be sympathetic towards people suffering from AIDS. He further

added that the social rights of AIDS patients must be safeguarded.

On the occasion, the secretary general of Indian AIDS Control Society

and noted medical doctor on AIDS, Dr Ishwar Gilada, who established

the first HIV clinic in Mumbai in 1985, said much had been done in

connection with the campaign against HIV in India, but much remains

to be accomplished.

He further said that the number of AIDs patients in UP and Bihar may

increase rapidly if precaution was not taken at the earliest.

UP head of UNICEF Dr Nirmal said the motto of the conference was to

give detailed information about AIDS amongst the participants and

youth.

Activists of NGOs from different parts of India engaged in

discussions on combating the HIV menace in the society.

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