To observe the World AIDS Day, a poster exhibition and lecture-cum-interaction was organised at Regional Science Centre Bhopal. The event that began on Tuesday concluded here on Wednesday with a special lecture on HIV/AIDS.
The two-day programme was all about informing the students about the AIDS. Notably, the programme was organised by Regional Science Centre with the collaboration with Madhya Pradesh State AIDS Control Society.
On the concluding day, Consultant (Youth Affair) in Madhya Pradesh State AIDS Control Society, Savita Thakur was present to interact with the students and give a lecture on HIV/ AIDS. This is not all but; some HIV positive patients were also present during the session so that the youngsters could interact with them and could get to know that how these people live their life to the fullest and contribute to spread awareness among other people about the AIDS/HIV.
During the special lecture, Savita Takhur elaborated on various aspects of HIV, its causes, precaution and prevention to be kept in mind to be away from this dreadful disease.
Elaborating more about it, she expressed her concern over the awful and terrible reactions by the society. While delivering her lecture to the students, Savita Thakur said, “The only solution to control the death rate by AIDS is to hold our own roots of cultural heritage tightly.” She stressed on need of good communication between parent and child relationship.
Notably, the lecture proved to be really helpful for all the students present in the programme. As many as 250 students from Kamla Nehru School, Kotra took an advantage of this lecture as they had a live interaction with the HIV positive patients.
With an aim to make the students, especially the teenagers about the causes, effects and treatment of AIDS through posters and panels an exhibition was organised. As many as 10 big panels illustrating the human system and how does it get affected with the virus, how to detect the virus, and its counseling would be on display. Moreover, 20 posters displaying the information about the virus would be on display. As many as 1500 students including the general public visited to have a look at the exhibition.