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It is AIDS awareness month
By Ramya Kannan
WORLD AIDS Day is past. But we have not really dismissed the importance of spreading the message of HIV/AIDS. Seminars and projects still continue, beyond December 1, with equal, if not more vigour than then. For Chennai and its channels, December is the AIDS month.
The AIDS Prevention and Control Project (APAC), VHS, for instance, has scheduled a long list of events beginning during the middle of December and continuing till the end of the month. The entire sequence of events rests on the theme `I care. Do you?' and will be telecast primarily through television sets, different channels.
Listen to the rich and famous, personalities talk about AIDS throughout the channels. If you cannot take advice from a doctor, then take it from your favourite personality and be safe. The other events on TV start with `Aattam, Pattam, Thindattam', described as `entertaining communication to the youth'. This will be followed by a talk show featuring again eminent personalities from all fields discussing the subjects relating to HIV/AIDS. This will go on air on December 29.
A full length informative capsule, Ushaar, is to be aired on Raj TV on December 8, again prepared in consultation with APAC. But watch out for `Antha Oru Naal', a short tele film that seeks to unfold on your television screen a real life drama that will be a moral to millions of people and act as a measure of control, before one succumbs to temptation. The programme will be aired on Jaya TV on December 22, this year.
If the message is powerful through television, APAC staff do not want to deny the potency of the street plays. Street theatre troupes will go around Tamil Nadu telling people `every thing about AIDS' in simple, understan-dable terms.
The troupes will demystify the subject and simplify medical terms for the common man.
`Theriyu-ma?' asks Dr. Mathrubootham. A live tele quiz will be telecast on Raj TV.
Viewers have an opportunity to test their knowledge about AIDS and win a small reward - their favourite cine song will be played.
APAC is administered by Voluntary Health Services, Chennai, with financial assistance from USAID under a bilateral agreement with the Central government.
They may be contacted at 2541965, 2541098, apacvhs@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in
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