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Saying `goodbye' to AIDS
Staff Reporter
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Awareness campaign launched in the city
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CHENNAI:
It has been 25 years since the first AIDS death in the world was reported. To mark this, an awareness campaign was started on Thursday morning.
A van with the message `Goodbye to AIDS' was flagged off by Lakshmi Bai, Project Director of the Tamil Nadu AIDS Initiative (TAI). The van went around the city, ending its journey on the Marina beach. The campaign was organised by TAI-VHS and non-governmental organisation Indian Community Welfare Organisation (ICWO), which works for STD/HIV/AIDS prevention among female sex workers and homosexual men. ICWO secretary A.J. Hariharan said the challenge was to reach out with HIV prevention messages to marginalised communities.
However, Tamil Nadu, according to the report, is also showing signs of reversing the trends of the epidemic indicating that prevention efforts are making a difference. "We have come a long way from the initial fear and hopelessness. Community-led prevention initiatives of leading NGOs such as ICWO are showing encouraging signs," said Dr. Lakshmi Bai.
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