HIV/AIDS awareness spread through street play in Mandi

The Himachal Pradesh State AIDS Control Society and the Information and Public Relations Department jointly organised an awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS at Rohanda in Mandi district today. Information about HIV/AIDS was given through a street play during the campaign.

Artistes from the Kamaksha Lok Cultural Art Platform, approved by the Information and Public Relations Department, performed a street play at the Rohanda market, educating the community about HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness through engaging songs and performances.

The artistes entertained the audience while also imparting crucial information about the symptoms of HIV such as infection, fever, muscle pain, headaches, sore throat, night sweats, mouth sores, swollen glands and diarrhea.

During the play, the artistes emphasised that HIV/AIDS did not spread through casual interactions such as handshakes, sharing food, drinking water or other liquids from the same container, using the same bed or clothes, living in the same room or house, or playing with children.

The disease is transmitted primarily through sexual contact with an HIV-positive person, sharing infected needles, from an infected mother to her child, or through contaminated organ transplants.

The performing artistes included Champa Sagar, Kaushalya, Vimla, Raju, Sanju, Hitesh, Gadhu Mani Chand, KS Atri, Bittu, and Thakur Sen.