International AIDS volunteers studying vulnerable groups

[Guest guest]

15 August 2009 CHANDIGARH:

In its attempt to gather feedback from international HIV health workers and

volunteers for eradicating AIDS in Haryana, the State AIDS Control Organization

is supporting international student volunteers in a study on 47 existing

projects involving high-risk groups.

A team of 14 students from China and Taiwan surveyed Punjab and Haryana and also

liaised with a local NGO, `Butterfly', based in Panchkula to learn about HIV

counselling and management of the disease.

Talking about the HIV and AIDS scenario in Taiwan, Jaffery, a pharmaceutical

science student said, `Sex education has been given to students in junior high

schools and the government is providing money to students for implementing HIV

and AIDS awareness programme unlike in India.'

These interns, in their late 20s, are on a mission to learn more about how NGOs

are run and to do something for the vulnerable groups. `We could then go back to

our country to contribute to our society too. We have seen the way these

projects are run in these states and can adopt certain methodologies from here,'

added Yao Tuo from China, majoring in development studies for a bachelor's

degree at China Agricultural University, China.

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