"Let’s stop Aids. Let’s keep the promise."
With this message, World Aids Day was commemorated on December 1st, as
As part of the awareness-raising activities, this year, we organized a petition campaign in especially populated locations of the city. The main purpose of the campaign was to inform the children from Yashodhara Shelter Home and from the Day Care Centers the ways of preventing this disease, the ways in which it can be transmitted, and the situation of the millions of people in the world who have it. Thus, we prepared them so they could be the ones, together with the staff from Asha-Kiran, to approach other people and disseminate this information, hand out informative brochures, and gather more than 800 signatures to support the campaign. Aside from information, the almost one thousand people who joined the campaign got a sticker of the Foundation with a red ribbon by which they are committed, in turn, to spread said information and keep the promise of helping stop the spread of Aids.
We also organized an informative session for families and communities with the help and participation of experts from the National Aids Research Institute. Although the general public already has some information on the subject, there are still many myths about this illness that should be cleared up. This time, aside from clarifying misinformation, we discussed symptoms, fears, available treatments, the possibility of having early detection tests and the social integration of people who are HIV+ or have Aids.
