Koraput World AIDS Day Update

World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Bunn and Netter took their idea to Dr. Jonathan Mann, Director of the Global Programme on AIDS (now known as UNAIDS). Dr. Mann liked the concept, approved it, and agreed with the recommendation that the first observance of World AIDS Day should be 1 December, 1988.

As a result:

• The overall WAD concept/overarching theme for the next four years will be “Getting to Zero” (till 2015) with the understanding that different groups and regions will focus on a zero which is most relevant to them.
• The World AIDS Campaign adoption of “Zero AIDS-Related Deaths” as its World AIDS Day focus for 2011 under the overarching theme of “Getting to Zero”.

Planning For the Observance of WAD-12 / Pre-Processing meeting with representatives Of Service Delivery Units: A meeting was conducted on dated 22^nd Nov’12 regarding observance of World AIDS Day 2012. In the meeting the consents were taken from the representatives of Service Delivery Units. As per the discussion the following decisions and work distribution has been made:


A multistake holder rally will be initiated from DHH, Koraput & ended at Culture Office campus – Responsibilities DAPCU staffs other representatives of SDPs.

Public Meeting was planned to conduct at the District Culture Office campus- Responsibilities DAPCU staffs and representatives of SDPs.

Hoarding are decided to display at the 5 nos. of venues – i.e. Bus Stand campus, NAC front office, DHH campus, CDMO Office front wall.

Two numbers of multi stake holder Rally banner – planning of banner would be made at the DAPCU, Koraput.

• Cap for the participants will be arranged by SOVA, Koraput.
• Hoarding Banner cost will be borne by Lepra India, Jeypore.  
• Blood Donation camp will be organized by DAPCU in association with ORCBB, DHH, Koraput.
• All the Colleges of Koraput Town will be intimated to send their students for participating in the Quiz, Debate & Essay Competitions to be organized on 29^th Nov’12 at the DAPCU Conference Hall. To manage the whole competition jury members were selected i.e. Mr. Santosh Kumar Behera, BCC Coordinator, Mr. Narayan Das, DIS, DAPCU, Mr. Sankarsan Nayak, Vice Principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Koraput. 

All the Colleges of Koraput Town will be intimated to send their students for participating in the Quiz, Debate & Essay Competitions to be organized on 29^th Nov’12 at the DAPCU Conference Hall. To manage the whole competition jury members were selected i.e. Mr. Santosh Kumar Behera, BCC Coordinator, Mr. Narayan Das, DIS, DAPCU, Mr. Sankarsan Nayak, Vice Principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Koraput.

Activities conducted for the observance of world aids day’12: As per the decision taken in the previous meeting with all the representatives of Service Delivery Units all the letter has been communicated to all the District level officials related to the line departments, all Medical officers and Doctors of Hospitals to attend the public meeting. Circle Jail Superintendent was contacted to take permission for conducting jail sensitization programme with jail inmates and jail staffs. All Principal of the Koraput town were contacted and communicated to send their student to participate in the competitions to be conducted at the DAPCU conference hall. Hindustan Flex was ordered to print the banner for the World AIDS Day as well as printing of Certificates for the competitions. The duties of all activities were distributed among all the staffs and volunteers of Service Delivery Units. Tent House was contacted to fascinate the District Culture office campus and installation of tents for shading environment. 

Conduction of competition on Quiz, Debate and Essay on the observance of WAD-12: As per the communication students of all town colleges were gathered at the DAPCU conference hall on dated 29^th Nov’12. Before conducting the programme a small introductory meeting was conducted by involving all the participants as well as resource persons like: DPM, DAPCU, Koraput and other jury members. Then, the Essay and Debate Competition were made side by side. For the organizing and successively implementing the programme all the representatives of Service Delivery Units were attended at the competition venue. The list of participants has been enlisted and decided to provide participatory certificate to all the participants along with positioned held persons. After completion of the Debate and Essay Competitions, the open quiz competitions were made by involving all the participants coming from College level. Instant prizes were provided to the participants in the open quiz completion by the resource person. The questions of quiz were related to HIV/AIDS prevention and control, care, support and treatment as well as facilities related to it. All the participants were actively involved in the competitions and acquired knowledge on HIV/AIDS. It was informed to all the participants of debate and essay competitions that the result of the competition will be declared at the Public meeting on World AIDS Day and all the participants were requested to attend the public meeting.
Conduction of Workshop on HIV/AIDS in the circle jail: A jail sensitisation workshop has been conducted at the Circle Jail, Koraput on dated 27th Nov'12. The workshop was attended by Mr. Narayan Das, DIS & Mr. C. S. Pattanaik, Programme Assistant, DAPCU, Koraput as the resource person in the presence of Mr. B. Sahu, Circlie Jail Superintendent, Mr. B. B. Behera, Pharmacist, Dr. A. Patra, Medical Officer of Circle Jail and other staffs. In the workshop about 450 jail prisoners were attended as the participants. In the workshop they were sensitised on Routes of Transmission, Stigma and Discrimination relating to HIV./AIDS, prevention, control and care on HIV/AIDS by the resource person. At last a questionary session was conducted among the prisoners and few among them asked several questions related to HIV/AIDS prevention and Control and all the queries has been described by the resource persons. The special programme also covered by Samaj – press representative and this meeting report was also prescribed at the front page of Samaj on next day i.e. 28^th Nov’12.

Activities conducted on dated 1^st Dec’12:  As per the decision taken in the previous meeting, the agenda was prepared with due consent from Dr. P. K. Mohanty, CDMO, Koraput. All the colleges were re-informed and personally invited by the staffs of DAPCU for student of the colleges. The following are the activities which were undertaken on that day:

Rally and Public meeting:

Rally :

A rally was initiated from District Headquarter Hospital, Koraput on 8:30 AM followed by RRE van. In the rally about 350 nos of college students involved as the participants. The rally was inaugurated and flagged up by Dr. Promod Kumar Mohanty, CDMO, Koraput with the presence of Dr. K. P. Behera, ADMO (PH) & DNO (AIDS), Koraput, Dr. Ch. K. R. Mishra, DTO & ADMO (FW) I/c, DHH, Koraput, Dr. N. K. Pattanaik, SMO, ART Centre, DHH, Koraput and all the Medical Officers of DHH, Koraput with representatives and staffs of all service delivery units. The rally was marched through Pujariput, Jagannath Mandir Chowk, Amala Kutir Road, Koraput Bus stand, SP office road, collectorate office road and destination. In the rally slogans were hosted by the DAPCU staffs and representatives of Service Delivery Units and disseminated message on HIV/AIDS among the general public. Leaflets were also distributed among the public relating to HIV/AIDS and importance on observance of the World AIDS Day.

Hosting on HIV/AIDS at the Public meeting campus:

After the rally, all the participants were involved to know the importance of the day. Staffs of DAPCU and representatives of Service delivery units were disseminated messages and speech on importance of the day observed and a small interaction was also organized with the participants of the meeting on HIV/AIDS. In that session, they were asked various questions on HIV/AIDS and the participants were involved in the process.  

Guest invitation:

Mr. Narayan Das, DIS, DAPCU, Koraput invited all the invited guest to the dias. The public meeting was started on 11:00 AM. In the public meeting Ms. Malati Majhi, Chairman, Zilla Parishad, Koraput was attended the public meeting as Chief Guest. Mr. Bhagaban Bahibipati, Vice President, NAC, Koraput, Dr. P. K.  Mohanty, CDMO, Koraput, Mr. Niranjan Rout, SDPO, Mr. Bhagaban Khara, District Culture Officer, Dr. K. P. Behera, Asst. District Medical Officer (PH) & DNO (AIDS) I/c, Dr. Ch. K. R. Mishra, ADMO (FW) & DTO, Mr. Ashok Kumar Patro, Additional District Social Welfare Officer, Mr. P. Mallick, District Information and Public Relation Officer were attended the public meeting as Guest of Honour. The whole meeting was convened by Dr. Ch. K. R. Mishra, DTO, DHH, Koraput.

Public meeting:

In the speech of Smt. Malati Majhi, Zilla Parishad, Koraput, has expressed that: the adolescent students of Colleges and High Schools are needed to sensitize themselves regarding HIV/AIDS and create themselves a media to disseminate message on HIV/AIDS. While Dr. P. K. Mohanty, CDMO, Koraput expressed that whole scenario of Koraput district on the ground of HIV/AIDS. He described it as a giant for human and the right and correct information will only keep protected the general public from the virus or phase. Mr. Bhagaban Bahinipati, Vice president, NAC, Koraput, Mr. Niranjan Rout, SDPO & Mr. Bhagaban Khara, District Culture Officer had also expressed their speech on the importance of observance of World AIDS Day and activities conducted by the Service Delivery Units on the field of HIV/AIDS. They also requested all the public of the Koraput town to take a right step for zero HIV/AIDS infection in Koraput District.

Prize distribution:

After ending of public meeting the competitor of different competitions i.e. Debate and Essay were awarded with prizes by Mrs. Malati Majhi, Chief Guest and Dr. P. K. Mohanty, CDMO, Koraput. In the debate competition Ms. Rasmita Mohanty,       Mr. Sanjaya Kumar Palo, Ms. Santa Mohanty of Central University were awarded with 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd prize respectively, like as in essay competition: Ms. Priyanaka Sharma of Central University, Mr. Gouran Mohaptra of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Mr. Suresh Podal of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College were awarded with 1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd prize respectively from the resource person of the meeting.     

Cultural programme: Dhemsa and Odishi dance:

Cultural programme was conducted at the public meeting stage after completion of Prize distribution ceremony. As the first performer of cultural programme SOVA was conducted Dhemsa troupe dance by hiring the cultural troupe of Dhemsa cultural association. After the dhemsa programme Odishi dance was performed by the Sangeeta Kala Parishad cultural groups and was conducted by NKP+, Koraput.

Organization of Voluntary Blood Donation Camp at Semiliguda College:

With association of Orissa Red Cross Blood Bank, DHH, Koraput on dated 15^th December’12, a voluntary Blood Donation Camp was organized at the Conference Hall of Semiliguda College, Semiliguda, Koraput. In the venue 60 units blood collected from student of the Semiliguda College. All the Blood Donors were provided with Certificate and Identity Card with the approval of Blood Bank Officer, DHH, Koaput. In the VBD camp, Ms. Rasmita Mohanty, DPM, DAPCU, Koraput, Mr. Narayan Das, DIS, DAPCU & Mr. Chandra Sekhar Pattanaik, Programme Assistant, DAPCU, Koraput had attended as the resource person.

Ending: The main aim behind conduction of aforesaid whole programme is to sensitize the general public on HIV/AIDS and motivate them for Voluntary Blood Donation. As a whole, DAPCU, Koraput is so much grateful before OSACS, BBSR, District Health Administration, Koraput and all Service Delivery Units as they has provided all sort of technical assistance and financial support to organize such grand month long observance. The process will be continued for the whole year & beginning at the World AIDS Day with an aim to create a new world without HIV/AIDS.