Punjab News/CHC Bara Pind organises seminar on AIDS for school children

Phagwara(Goraya), November 30, 2013: To create awareness regarding the prevention of AIDS, Community Health Centre (CHC), Bara Pind, here today organised a seminar on the eve of ‘world AIDS Day’ at Senior Secondary School, Bara Pind under guidance of Senior Medical Officer Dr Balwinder Singh Kahlon.

Delivering a detailed lecture, Medical Officer Dr Resham Singh informed students about causes and prevention of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which is caused by HIV virus. He told the students that the disease is primarily caused by unsafe sex, blood transfusion, infected needles and from infected mother to child during birth. “There is no cure of this disease but it could be easily prevented,” he said, adding that it took usually from eight to 10 years for patient to develop fully blown AIDS from HIV infection. He also urged the students to have solidarity with AIDS patients as it do not spread by normal contact and even through mosquitoes.

School Principal Gulshan Gindda termed the information provided by the medical officer quite useful. Block Extension Educator (BEE) Preetinder Singh revealed that around 3.4 crore people are estimated to be infected with this disease globally.

School lecturers Ajit Singh, Hardeep Singh, Balwinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh were also present on the occasion.