Rural- based awareness and programs needed

October 30, 2008

Dear Forum

HIV/AIDS shoul not be a program at urban level alone. Tackle it with rural

based programs like awareness camps, check ups, HIV HIV testing.

There are increasing incidents of HIV from Ujjain MP. One NGO could facilitate

one Self Help Group fr HIV testing and to know their HIV status. Later

whole village may get ready for the HIV test. If this model is applied in

the villages where people with high HIV vulnerability are residing then we

can uproot it from the society.

Now new AIDS cases are coming out more from the villages. By that time

the patient might have infected the family.

Saathi Ujjain is working in Mehidpur. This is known for truckers area.

More than 4000 drivers are moving here and there from Mehidpur. Now Saathi

had registered many cases from this area. It is mainly from the high risk

groups( Drivers group- sorry)

Now a days people are fed up with HIV AIDS awareness programs. So they stop

to say about the reason and roots of transmission to the people. They

directly talk about ARTs, but, what about the poor illitrate villages (My

thoughts and obsseravtion are based on rural population of MP state). If 70%

people are in villages in India, then we we should not stop to talk about

AIDS to the people in the villages.

If we do a survey among the NGOs VOs who conduct awareness programs in the

villages, many feel that it is futile to talk to the villages. We must talk

about HIV and AIDS all the places. Dont laugh at the people who talk about

it.

I invite all the people to know about the basics of HIV and teach the

people. I challange you. How many of your friends know about basic of HIV?

each them.

When TB program is launched please try to club the AIDS awareness programs

with that. So that you reach the people(70%) easily.

Bhopal School of Social Sciences

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