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- From: m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov (Prasad K. Dharmasena)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
- Subject: AIDS
- Message-ID: <10747@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:17:50 GMT
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- { The following article has been taken with permission from the
- bi-weekly newsletter "Sri Lanka News Bulletin" published by
- the Embassy of Sri Lanka at Washington, DC. -- prasad }
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- ** YOUTH SYMPOSIUM TO MARK WORLD AIDS DAY
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- On December 1, World AIDS Day, 250,000 village based youth
- club members, will gather in 3000 different locations islandwide
- to pool their capacities as social workers and change agents
- to combat the AIDS menace.
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- The youth mobilisation program is implemented by Worldview
- International Foundation's Sri Lanka Media Centre in
- collaboration with the National Youth Services Council's
- Federation of Youth Clubs.
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- The objective of the effort is to bring into focus the
- role youth organisations must play, in educating the rural youth
- in particular, and the rural population in general on AIDS and
- preventive measures, a Worldview news release said.
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- According to Dr. Michael Merson, Head of the Global Program
- on AIDS, (WHO), the HIV that causes AIDS Is spreading at an
- alarming rate of one new infection every 15 seconds.
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- There are about 18 million men, women and children
- throughout the world who are infected with HIV. The virus
- spreads primarily through sexual intercourse, but can also be
- transmitted by sharing injection needles, blood transfusions
- and from infected mothers to their unborn and newborn children,
- he said.
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- Worldview Sir Lanka has already launched several AIDS
- awareness and communication programs based on this year's AIDS
- Day theme - Community Commitments.
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- Worldview's special AIDS Awareness and Communication Project
- funded by NORAD has so far trained 30 national level youth
- leaders and 100 district level youth leaders in AIDS
- communication, through a series of five day residential
- workshops. The AIDS Day seminar series will be coordinated
- by these trainees.
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- Two other components of the campaign will be launched on
- December 1. The inaugural symposium to sensitise ayurveda
- practitioners on AIDS, will be held on December 1 at the
- Bandaranaike Central College Hall, Gampaha. Over 100 ayurveda
- physicians in Gampaha district will participate.
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- Another important activity scheduled for AIDS Day is the
- launch of a 52 week radio program series for the dissemination
- of AIDS information and motivational messages. The series will
- be aired by the SLBC's Commercial Service.
-