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Meeting on STDs, AIDS ends CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — The 11th regional meeting of the Internatational Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (SE Asia and West Pacific) and 24th national conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS, concluded here at the PGI yesterday. At the outset, Dr P Bhargava presented the Sardari Lal Memorial Award paper and discussed about the suppression of the immune system by two mechanisms. He called it a tale of two poisons, where one poison was the HIV infection and the other was the closporin drug therapy that is used to suppress the immune system in patients with damaging immune mediated diseases. Dr Mukul Sharma, Department of Dermataology and STD, SP Medical College, Udaipur, in his paper on AIDS and sex education in schools, emphasised the need to mobilise the senior teachers in various schools who form an instrumental group by virtue of their unique linkage with the adolescent students as well as their established status as educators in society. In a survey he found that knowledge regarding various aspects of sex education was found to be quite superficial, gathered mainly from the mass media. Majority of the teachers and headmasters were also found to be unwilling to take up teaching sex education. There was found an immediate need for creating awareness about STDs and HIV among adolescents through sex education in educational institutions and other work places and advocating safer sex practices. His paper won the first prize in the Dr P.S. Ranganathan Memorial Award session, while the second and the third prize were won by Dr Ranju Rai and Dr Bijaylaxmi from the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, PGI. In various free papers presented today, the role of community based organisations, NGOs, medical and paramedical staff in spreading awareness about RTIs/STDs and in promoting positive-health seeking behaviour was highlighted. Emphasis was also laid on information, education and counselling, as it helps in better planning with regard to the disease. Dr Subhash K. Hira, Director AIDS Research and Control Centre (ARCON), JJ Centre, Mumbai, pointed out that counselling brings about a marked increase in acceptance and constructive coping mechanisms, reduction in the number of sex partners and reduced frequency of unprotected sex. Patient ear to patient’s problem, analysis of the root cause and reassurance alone were a fruitful modality to solve the problem of millions, who may otherwise fall to the trap of quacks. An interesting study was presented on Kaposi’s Sarcoma in HIV infected males. Any such case is yet to be treated in the PGI. Meanwhile, the paper of Dr Rajesh Jain of the PGI was adjudged first in the Dr V Govindan Nair Award session, while that of Vineet Kaur of Varanasi and that of Dr Vijay Prabhu of Government General Hospital, Chennai were adjudged second and third during the valedictory function. |
St John’s in u-14, u-12 final CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — Hosts St John’s High School, Sector 26 will cross swords with Hansraj Public School, Sector 6, Panchkula, in the final of the under-14 section of the Edmund Rice cricket tournament. St John’s outplayed YPS, SAS Nagar, by five wickets, while HPS got the better of St Anne’s School, Sector 32, by 16 runs. In under-12 section, YPS, SAS Nagar, beat HPS, Panchkula, by six wickets, while St John’s outscored Little Flowers School, Panchkula, by 67 runs to reach the final.
Ball badminton meet The Chandigarh Ball Badminton Association will organise the Chandigarh junior state ball badminton championship for boys and girls from October 27 to 29 at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41. Thirty teams are expected to participate. W CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — An international weightlifting championship — with teams from the air forces of two countries participating — is being organised at No.3 Base Repair Depot here next week. Besides weightlifters from the Indian Air Force, a team from the Sri Lankan Air Force will also participate in the event, scheduled to be held on October 22 and 23. This is the first time that such an event is being organised here. |
UT steps to meet stir threat CHANDIGARH,
Oct 16 — The Engineering Department of the Chandigarh Administration has set up three control rooms to effectively tackle the pen-down and tool-down strike planned by the UT Subordinate Services Federation on October 18. For power problems from Sectors 1 to 17 and from Sectors 22 to 26 Xen S.N. Makkar ( telephone number 703242) can be contacted. For Sectors 18,19,21,27,28,31,47,48, Industrial Area Phase I and II Xen A.K. Verma (telephone number 655531 and 651656) will be available. For Sectors 20,30 and from 32 to 61 Xen R.L. Kanodia (telephone number 602967 and 668376) can be contacted. A spokesperson of the Chandigarh Administration today said that it might not be possible to meet the normal requirements, including attending to complaints. The employees are going on strike to press their demands which include the payment of bonus, release of DA and against the move to private power distribution, transport, CITCO and Super Bazar. |
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Dhaliwal joins as ASP CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — IPS officer of the 1997 batch, Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal, today joined the Chandigarh Police as Assistant Superintendent of Police. He was previously posted as ASP in Panaji. Recipient of Vice President of India’s trophy for achieving the highest marks in “director’s assessment at Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad”, ASP Dhaliwal had lead the Delhi police during the Republic Day Parade in 1999. He had done his MBA (HRD) from Panjab University’s University Business School in the 1993-95 session after doing his B.Com. He had also worked as a management trainee with the CII here. |
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DA
instalment released CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — The Chandigarh Administration
today released the installment of dearness allowance (DA) for its
employees and those employees working in various corporations. The
hike is by 3 per cent raising the DA levels from 38 per cent to 41 per
cent, a spokesperson of the Chandigarh Administration said tonight. |
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