Udupi World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day on 1 December brought  together people from around the District to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. The day provided an opportunity for public and students to be involve  and  to spread awareness about the status of the endemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in high prevalence.

Total 900 students and public were participated in the programme. This World AIDS Campaign focussed  on "Zero AIDS related deaths" signifies a push towards greater access to treatment for all.

UNICEF provided 6  IEC Stalls were eshtablished in the college campus by Link Workers of CDHP programme and IEC materialswere distributed to all the students and participants.

In Udupi World AIDS Day programme  Honourable Port and Muzrai Minister(Karnataka Govt) Mr.Shrinivas pujary as the chief Guest.

 World AIDS Day programme was inaugurated at Govt P.U.College Hiriadka with HIV/AIDS awareness Jatha by the students of the same college.

Ramachandra Bairy Dist. Health and family welfare officer said that sustained efforts had brought down the number of persons living with HIV/AIDs . Though Udupi district had moved to the yellow list, the Health and Family Welfare Department wanted to bring down the number of HIV/AIDS cases.

Mr.Kota Srinivas  Poojary, Honorable Minister of Ports and Muzarai, Karnataka govt. said on Saturday that all efforts would be made to bring Udupi dist. Under green list from the yellow for HIV/AIDS cases. He was speaking after inaugurating a function to mark world AIDS Day, organized by the Karnataka State AIDS prevention Society. Department of health and Family welfare dist. Administration Zilla panchayath and other organization at the government Pre-University collage. Mr. Poojary said a lot of factor were responsible for Udupi District being in the red list. Most persons living with HIV/AIDS in the district were migrants . There was more testing for HIV/AIDS in Udupi dist. When compared to other dist. However due to the intensive efforts of the Health and Family Welfare and other departments, the dist. had now entered the Yellow list, which was a positive sign. It was necessary to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS especially among the youth .Any campaign would become successful only if students got involved in it. Students of pre-university and other collages should extend their cooperation to this campaign on HIV/AIDS Mr. Poojary said .