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Awareness must to prevent students falling victim to HIV

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Two-day district-level NSS Adolescent Quiz-2006 inaugurated

CONCERN FOR ADOLESCENTS: Regional Adviser of NSS H.S. Suresh speaking after inaugurating the district- level quiz in Gulbarga on Thursday.

GULBARGA: Regional Adviser of the National Service Scheme (NSS) H.S. Suresh on Thursday emphasised the need for stepping up awareness among youth, particularly those in the adolescent age group, on living healthily and also about basics of sex education to prevent them from falling victim to sex-related diseases such as HIV and AIDS.

Inaugurating a two-day district-level NSS Adolescent Quiz-2006, organised by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the NSS, at the M.S. Irani Pre-University College, Dr. Suresh said that adolescent children had to be made aware that sex was not fantasy and adventurism. He said the NSS and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports had launched a countrywide quiz programme to create awareness among the targeted group of students about sex and dangers of diseases due to unhealthy practices. The quiz was also aimed at building self-esteem among children and personality development.

Dr. Suresh said that a survey conducted in the red light area in Kolhapur in Maharashtra recently proved that a majority of visitors to the area were students. It had become imperative for the Government and non-governmental organisations to take up sex education programmes for adolescents now. He said that there was a need to educate students, particularly girls, about reproductive health. This was important in the Indian situation as neither parents nor teachers provided basic knowledge about changes that took place in the human body during adolescence to the children, and the absence of sex education made things more difficult.

In the quiz programme, all aspects of health and physical and hormonal changes that took place during the crucial adolescent age was explained and the Union Government had hit upon the idea of holding the quiz to reach out to the targeted group in a more effective manner.

Deputy Director of Pre-University Education C.R. Naduvinamani, spoke.

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