PVDP launches campaign against HIV/AIDS

Pakistan Village Development Programme (PVDP), a non-governmental organization, observed a weeklong awareness campaign against HIV/AIDS in the flood affected union councils of district Nowshera.

The organization with the assistance of an international relief agency,
TROCAIR organized the concluding function of the week in Camp Koroona village, one of the worst flood affected union councils of the area.

Local teachers and students also addressed the concluding function of the HIV/AIDS awareness week, beside, chief of PVDP, Haris Zaka, Manager Operations, Ziaullah Khan and Project Coordinator, Imran Iqbal.

Addressing the function, the officials of the organization expressed concern over the growing number of HIV/AIDS patients and attributed it to the lack of awareness in the province. Expressing sympathies with the patients, he assured all possible cooperation and support in the treatment of the patients on behalf of the organization.

They said that the organization has prepared effective planning to
handle HIV/AIDS in the backward areas of the province. They urged the participants for becoming volunteers to carry door-to-door awareness campaign against the disease.

During the awareness campaign, the organization also organized several awareness related sessions in which youth and women were provided information about HIV/AIDS.