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NGO Launches Mobile Library To Spread Awareness About AIDS


By siddharth22, Section News
Posted on Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 01:20:16 AM EST

Keeping with the initiation of the five year National AIDS Control Programme, an innovative mobile library was launched by nongovernmental organisation (NGO) Saathii at the Kolkata Press Club on Thursday, with the aim of creating awareness about HIV/AIDS.

The director of Solidarity and Action against the HIV Infection in India (Saathii), Pawan Dhall, said, "The library has been launched after years of research and ground work. We hope it will reach out to the general public and familiarise them with issues like gender, sexuality and human rights."

The mobile library will stock both fiction and nonfiction books, along with journals and magazines. Reference books on sexual health will also be present.

"It is important to reach out to the vulnerable sections of society through such initiatives," said Dhall. To ensure that the message reaches even the illiterate sections, Saathii will stock CDs of educational films in the library. "These films will be entertaining yet informative for spreading the mes sage," said Dhall.

The library service will initially run on a monthly basis and after gauging the response, the frequency will be increased. "We are depending on our partner agencies to help us distribute materials to the remotest corners of the state," said Dhall.

The function concluded with a panel discussion. Eminent personalities like writer Supurna Dutta and psychiatrist Subir Hazra Chaudhuri laid emphasis on the importance of such initiatives in order to reduce the stigma around HIV/AIDS and alternative sexuality.

Source:The Times Of India,02-11-07

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