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Dinesh Gundu Rao, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, said present connected December 1 that the authorities is committed to making Karnataka an AIDS-free State by 2030.
Speaking astatine the World AIDS Day programme, the Minister urged stakeholders to articulation hands successful this endeavour and assistance execute the goal.
Mr. Rao said that since 2004, 1,16,200 radical successful the State person died owing to deficiency of due treatment. HIV does not dispersed by sharing nutrient oregon done acold and cough, helium added. HIV-positive individuals excessively person the close to unrecorded with dignity successful society, helium underscored, and called for the timely commencement of Antiretroviral Therapy oregon ART attraction truthful that the corruption does not advancement to AIDS.
He attributed the onset of the illness to unsafe intersexual interaction and the shared usage of contaminated needles among those who usage drugs. It tin besides dispersed from a HIV-positive large parent to her baby, helium explained. But successful caller years, transmission has besides been expanding done male-to-male intersexual contact, Mr. Rao added.
Calling for the instauration of greater consciousness astir AIDS, the Minister stated that the absorption successful this respect should beryllium connected areas with a greater younker population, hostels, colleges, and areas wherever enactment workers predominantly live.
Padma Basavanthappa, task manager of AIDS Prevention Society, said that the absorption of World AIDS Day this twelvemonth is to supply required services and facilities to HIV-positive individuals and support them from stigma and discrimination.
She said the State has 442 functioning standalone Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres centres and 94 ART centres operating successful territory authorities hospitals, respective taluk hospitals, and immoderate backstage aesculapian colleges. In addition, 290 Link ART centres are functioning successful taluk-level hospitals, Ms. Basavanthappa added.
Information, Education, and Communication materials were released to people the juncture and individuals who person worked successful AIDS-related programmes were felicitated. A New Year calendar was released by the humor donation campy team.
Earlier, arsenic portion of World AIDS Day, a nationalist consciousness march was flagged disconnected from Kote Anjaneya Temple. K. Harish Gowda, MLA, C.N. Manje Gowda, MLC, Dr. P.C. Kumaraswamy, District Health and Family Welfare Officer, Dr. K.R. Drakshayini, Dean of Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Dr. Mohammed Shiraj Ahmed, District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit Programme Officer, and others were present.
