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AIDS awareness camp

Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI: The government primary health centre at Navalpattu conducted an AIDS awareness camp for members of women self-help groups and higher secondary students at Mukkulathur Higher Secondary School, Tiruverumbur, on Monday.

Speaking on the topic `AIDS is a Social Stigma,' the Block Medical Officer of the centre, Madhavi, said unsafe sexual intercourse was the cause for the spread of AIDS in 90 per cent of the cases.

Those with less than 500 cell counts in white blood corpuscles were affected with opportunistic diseases leading to premature death.

People in the high-risk group should not hesitate to contact the voluntary counselling and testing centre (VCTC) at K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Medical College Hospital.

the HIV infected.

The public should help the integration of HIV positive patients into the society, she said, focussing on chastity, AIDS, HIV, the mode of transmission, signs and symptoms, and ways of prevention. Medical Officers Gowri and Shenbagalakshmi initiated a group discussion involving the SHG members and 75 school students, in the presence of the school headmaster, Sakthivel. Vemban and Arumugam, Health Inspectors, Paul Pandian, Block Extension Educator, Jayam, Community Health Nurse, Malarvizhi, Block Health Statistician, and Bhuvaneshwari, Convenor, participated in the discussion.

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