To spread awareness about AIDS hundreds of volunteers and activists took out a rally in the city on Friday. The rally was organised by Uttarakhand Association for Positive living with HIV AIDS and Vihan project.
In a memorandum directed to assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal the activists said that more than 2000 HIV infected people are getting treatments in various Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART) centres of the State and among these there are more than 300 children.
Women who are getting treated in the ARTs of the State go up to 1534 .
The activists said that due to the geographical features and other factors, AIDS is spreading very rapidly in the State which is a big source of concern.
They also urged the State Government to intensify its preventive activities. The rally started from Araghar and
culminated before the
secretariat.