Maharashtra Police to spread AIDS awareness

November 17, 2006

Mumbai, Nov 15: Maharashtra Police has joined hands with an NGO to

undertake HIV-AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns in remote

districts of the state.

This was decided at an international convention on " Worldwide

advances in comprehensive management of HIV/AIDS: implications for

India " by Inspector General of Police Javed Ahmed and Nafisa

Khorakiwala, a trustee of the NGO Wockhardt- Harvard Medical

International AIDS Research Foundation WHARF, which is engaged in

training healthcare workers in HIV-AIDS issues, launched the latest

module of its training programme at the conference to equip care

providers with current knowledge and skills and make them aware of

issues that are of critical importance to clinical practice in

India, Khorakiwala said.

Commenting on the fact that Maharashtra stands sixth in India in the

prevalence of HIV, Governor S M Krishna said, " The need of the hour

is to bridge the gap between scientific research and training

consultants. " Powrie, associate professor of medicine and

obstetrics and gynaecology at Brown University, spoke on preventing

mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

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