Legislative forum on HIV/AIDS control in Bihar

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Legislative forum on HIV/AIDS control in Bihar

Patna, Jun 24: Cutting across party lines, Bihar legislators today

resolved to constitute a high-level body on the lines of

parliamentarians' forum on HIV/AIDS to create awareness among the

people of the state on the disease.

The resoultion to constitute the body was moved by state RJD

President and national spokesman Abdul Bari Sidiqui at a seminar on

HIV/AIDS, jointly organised by both the Houses of the legislature.

The resolution was unanimously adopted in the presence of Chief

Minister Nitish Kumar, Assembly speaker Uday Narayan Choudhry,

Legislative Council Acting Chairman Arun Kumar, J D Salem, MP and

member Core group, Parliamentarians' Forum on HIV/AIDS (PFHA), state

JD (U) PFHA President and co-convenor Rajeev Ranjan Singh, UNAIDS

country Director Dr Denis Brown and a host of Bihar Ministers,

legislators and officials.

Addressing the seminar, Nitish Kumar said the state government had

decided to purchase only auto-destructible syringes for use in

government hospitals across the state as infected syringes were one

of the main causes of the virus spread.

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