Orissa: HIV+ to help in anti-AIDS campaign

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HIV+ to help in anti-AIDS campaign

ASIANAGE: 23 August, 2008 04:34:30

BY RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY

Bhubaneswar. Aug. 23: Orissa became the first state in the country to appoint

HIV-positive persons in the state-run anti-AIDS campaign. " Other states might

have taken initiatives to reserve posts of coordinators under the people living

with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) category, but we have appointed two such persons in our

office, " Orissa State AIDS Control Society deputy director Manoj Kandher told

this newspaper here on Saturday.

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