Aid provided for HIV AIDS orphans

May 31, 2010

The Imphal Free Press

IMPHAL, May 30: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud India (FXB), Manipur in collaboration

with the Indian Medical Association Manipur State branch has distributed

education and study materials to 55 orphans and vulnerable children affected by

HIV and AIDS as part of the ongoing community service program of the Indian

Medical Association.

A function was held at the office complex of FXB India Suraksha Manipur Branch

at Singjamei Chongtham Leikai. Dr. Kh Palin, President; Dr. Ksh Kala, Vice

President; Dr.AK Brogen, Honorary Secretary; Dr. S. Gojendra, Joint Secretary

IMA; Dr. S. Ranabir, Executive Member; Dr. Kh Sucheta, Executive Member; Rk

Ranjit, Secretary The Sustainable Front; Joykumar Wahengbam, Human Rights

Activist, Communist leaders and caretakers of these orphans and vulnerable

children participated in the program.

Khoi Dinesh, program coordinator of FXB India Suraksha Manipur Branch in his key

note address opined that the issue of orphans and children infected or affected

by HIV and AIDS needs to be brought up to the policy of the state government.

FXB International is a pioneering organization which has been relentlessly

working for the last two decades to ensure a future for these children by

providing a solution to combat the dual crisis of poverty and AIDS.

The main objective of the organization now is to lobby the government to direct

at least 10 percent of HIV and AIDS funding to support the orphans and children

made vulnerable by the pandemic.

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