Workshop on HIV/AIDS at Patna College
Patna: January 8, 2008
 Over 60 students and teachers participated in a workshop on HIV/AIDS awareness workshop jointly organized by the Patna College NSS unit and the International Health Organization (IHO) at Patna College seminar hall on Tuesday.
Dr. Diwakar Tejaswi, an AIDS expert, in his address talked about the symptoms, cause, and the treatment of the deadly disease that continues to infect nearly 16,000 people worldwide on a daily basis while taking lives of about 800 infected victims each day.
As of November 1, 2007, Bihar had more than 16,000 cases of HIV and 3,200 cases of AIDS with Nawada district in lead, Dr. Tejaswi said while appealing to the students to spread AIDS awareness in the community to reduce the number of victims in Bihar.
The event was also attended by NSS coordinators Dr. Kiran Kumari and Rakesh Kumar.
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