Jagraon, January 1
A four-day AIDS Education Workshop was organised by the DEO Ludhiana at Swami Roop Chand Jain School here under the guidelines of the NACO, New Delhi, PSACS and SISE Punjab.
In this workshop, inaugurated by Trishala Jain, school Principal, Tarsem Lal Banga, Principal, DIET, Jagraon, and Dr Ashok Sharma, around 150 women and men nodal teachers and 150 adolescent students from school of tehsil of Jagraon, Raikot participated.
In the technical session of Day 1, state AIDS
resource person Prof Baldev Singh of District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Jagraon, delivered an lectures on various stages of development among adolescent boys and girls.
On Day 2, Dr Roop Dass, SMO, Civil Hospital, Hathoor, talked about the sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and reproductive tract infections (RITs).
Prof Baldev Singh, Dr Radha Goyal, SMO, Civil Hospital, Jagraon, and Dr Kuldip Singh explained the origin, history, growth, symptoms, routes of spread of AIDS, as blood transfusion, use of unsafe injections, from infected mother to the new born child and unsafe sex, responsible for about 87 per cent spread of AIDS all over the world.
They said with the attack of the HIV, white blood cells, responsible for body’s immunity, collaborated with this virus. As a result, immune system deteriorated, opportunistic diseases attacked the patient, leading him/ her to death.
On Day3, participants prepared transparencies regarding AIDS routes, HIV structure and no-risk behavior.
Under the direction of Prof Baldev Singh, participants presented group discussion on commercial sex workers, child abuse and child marriage, homosexuality, masturbation, teenage pregnancies and healthy friendship between adolescent girls and boys.
On Day 4, there was a group presentation on adolescent and AIDS related topics as programmes for right channeling of adolescents’ energy, rehabilitation of the AIDS patients, the need of sex education and counseling of the AIDS patients and AIDS advocacy for community participation to fight this incurable disease.
During the workshop, Varinder Sharma, DSS and officiating DEO, Ludhiana, monitored the progress of AIDS workshops at Jagraon.
Ashok Tandon, Vice-Principal, Ramgarhia School, Ludhiana, Harmesh Kochhar, Headmaster, GHS, Amargarh Kaler, Rakesh Kumar, and Pawan Kumar and Beant Kaur also expressed their views on AIDS.
