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Rajasthan
By Our Special Correspondent
JAIPUR, DEC. 22. The Rajasthan Governor, Pratibha Patil, has expressed concern over continued neglect of children despite a plethora of programmes and policies. The village children in the one- to-three year age group were still victims of malnutrition and only 17 per cent of them were fully immunized from diseases, she noted. "The figures available on child development are not very encouraging,'' she said in her address after receiving a copy of the State of the World's Children report at a function here on Tuesday. The State representative of UNICEF office for Rajasthan, Satish Kumar, presented the copy of the report. The focus areas for Rajasthan were poverty and HIV/AIDS, Dr. Kumar noted on the occasion. Ms. Patil said childhood was a crucial period of life which needed special focus. The children should get love, affection, motivation and facilities from parents, care-takers and other adult relatives and community for their education, learning and a healthy life, she said. She expressed concern over the low awareness -- only 21 per cent-- on AIDS among women in Rajasthan. In a presentation on the AIDS situation in Rajasthan, Dinesh Mathur, project director of the State AIDS Control Society, said over 100 children had died of AIDS in Rajasthan since its first detection in 1987 at Pushkar. At present the State had 1,357 officially recorded AIDS cases. More than 300 children so far have been orphaned in Rajasthan due to the deaths of affected parents, he informed. As much as 70 per cent of the 50,000 HIV positive cases detected in the State were in the rural areas.
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