They highlight need to prevent disease from spreading
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| Students Took AIDS Awareness rally in Krishnagiri |
Cadets of National Cadet Corps (NCC) from Government
Higher Secondary School took out an awareness rally on Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which severely affects the immune system in
the human body, here on Friday.
The rally was flagged
off by District Collector Pooja Kulkarni in the presence of the Chief
Educational Officer S. Suganya and Resident Medical Officer Dr.
Masilamani of the Government Headquarters Hospital, in Krishnagiri on
Friday.
Over four hundred NCC cadets from Government
Higher Secondary Schools in Krishnagiri, Elathagiri, Bargur,
Kaveripattinam, Magalachinnampalli, Barur and Nagarasampatti in the
district, participated in the rally.
Participating
students raised slogans on the ill effects of HIV and carried placards
with messages on the need to avoid HIV infection and the possibility of
transmitting the disease to others.
The placards said
that the killer virus attacks the immune system of the human body and
leaves the body vulnerable to a variety of life-threatening infections
and disorders.
The AIDS awareness rally started near
the Government Boys Higher Secondary School on Gandhi Road in the town
and went through the Five Road Junction, Taluk Office, Gandhi Road,
Government Headquarters Hospital before ending at the starting point.
