A non-governmental organisation, Pakistan Village Development Programme (PVDP) observed a weeklong awareness campaign against HIV/AIDS in the flood affected union councils of district Nowshera. The organisation with the assistance of an international relief agency, TROCAIR organised the concluding function of the week in Camp Koroona village, one of the worst-affected union councils devastated in flood of July 2010.
The concluding function of the HIV/AIDS awareness week, beside PVDP Chief Haris Zaka, Manager Operations Ziaullah Khan and Project Co-ordinator Imran Iqbal, was also addressed by local teachers and students. A large number of the elites and youth of the area attended. Addressing the function, the officials of the organisation 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 co-operation and support in the treatment of the patients on behalf of the organisation. They said the organisation had prepared effective planning for the arresting of the AIDS in the backward areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and urged the participants of the function for becoming volunteers to carry door to door awareness campaign against the disease in their areas.
During the awareness campaign the organisation also organised several awareness related sessions in which the youth and women were provided information about the disease of HIV/AIDS. Such kinds of functions were also held in different schools in which a large number of students participated. During the awareness campaign, declamation and Naat Khwani contests were also held in public sector schools at union council level. Prizes were also distributed among the participating students.