A voluntary organisation in Moreh town of Manipur has recently set up an AIDS awareness centre to educate people about the spread of the deadly virus.
Dedicated Peoples Union under Project Orchid (a foreign voluntary organisation) has been working round the clock in their relentless awareness campaigns on AIDS. They are helping people shed their inhibitions in use of condoms to prevent transmission of the disease.
AIDS/HIV - Health Education
Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general info about AIDS information and health education.
Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general info about AIDS information and health education.
The NGO aims to educate people, especially the youth, women, tribal class and the worker class to motivate them to use condoms, avoid drug abuse.
"Because of the coming up of this centre there has been a big change in the area. Earlier we couldn't spread much awareness on HIV but now things have changed. This is a border area and a lot of activities happen here. We then try to bring awareness among people like distributing syringes," said Khangenbam Markar Singh, Project, Manager, Dedicated Peoples Union.
"We are getting a lot of benefits with the coming of this NGO. Whenever we get sick we are provided medicines from here," Thanboyi, a youth.ndia has around 3.1 million men, women and children living with the human immuno-deficiency virus, commonly known as HIV.
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Statistics tell us that the world HIV+ population has risen drastically from 8 million in 1990 to a whopping 33 million in 2007! Even more alarming is the fact that young people (below the age of 25) account for half of these infections! This is adequate proof for the lack of awareness among the general public even in these modern times. So take our quiz and brush up on the essential facts of HIV/AIDS.
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Statistics tell us that the world HIV+ population has risen drastically from 8 million in 1990 to a whopping 33 million in 2007! Even more alarming is the fact that young people (below the age of 25) account for half of these infections! This is adequate proof for the lack of awareness among the general public even in these modern times. So take our quiz and brush up on the essential facts of HIV/AIDS.
There are 10 questions on HIV / AIDS in this quiz that will explore the depth of your knowledge and provide answers to the following:
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