New Delhi: Well being Minister Pankaj Singh mentioned HIV consciousness will not be solely a well being concern but additionally a matter of social duty because the Delhi government intensified its consciousness, prevention, testing and remedy marketing campaign focusing on the an infection, officers mentioned on Thursday.
The marketing campaign will particularly deal with youth, communities, colleges and faculties, they mentioned.
The intensified Info, Schooling and Communication (IEC) marketing campaign, being applied by the Delhi State AIDS Management Society (DSACS), will run throughout city and rural areas of Delhi for the subsequent two months underneath the message “Know AIDS – No AIDS”.
It was launched on the event of Worldwide Youth Day at Dr BSA Hospital in Rohini, with greater than 600 college students, NGOs, associate organisations and neighborhood stakeholders collaborating within the occasion. An consciousness rally was additionally organised as a part of the marketing campaign.
In a press release launched right here, the well being minister careworn the necessity to guarantee entry to appropriate data, well timed testing, remedy and assist.
“We should take away the myths and misconceptions surrounding HIV and be certain that no particular person residing with HIV faces discrimination due to their situation,” Singh mentioned, including that HIV consciousness can be a matter of social duty.
The minister mentioned younger folks have a crucial function in making a well-informed and accountable society and urged college students, instructional establishments, healthcare professionals, civil society organisations and neighborhood representatives to take part within the marketing campaign and unfold scientifically correct data on HIV prevention and remedy.
The marketing campaign will deal with HIV transmission and prevention, early testing and remedy, and the rights and protections accessible to folks residing with HIV underneath the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Management) Act, 2017.
As a part of the marketing campaign, consciousness conferences shall be held at village, colony and slum ranges, together with people performances, faculty and school outreach programmes, flash mobs, consciousness rallies, door-to-door campaigns, HIV consciousness and testing camps, and digital and social media outreach.
“Our focus is to take HIV consciousness past hospitals and healthcare centres and into communities, instructional establishments and households. Early testing and well timed remedy could make a big distinction,” Singh mentioned.
“On the identical time, we have to create an surroundings the place folks really feel secure to hunt testing and remedy with out worry of stigma or discrimination,” he mentioned.
Below the Nationwide AIDS and STD Management Programme, 14.29 lakh HIV assessments had been carried out in Delhi throughout 2025-26, leading to 5,570 HIV detections, in accordance with the federal government.
As many as 44,546 folks residing with HIV/AIDS are at present underneath lively care at 12 Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Centres in Delhi. The programme can be masking 92.13 per cent of the mapped high-risk teams by focused interventions.
Delhi has 87 Purple Ribbon Golf equipment in faculties, whereas Sampoorna Suraksha Kendras have additionally been established to strengthen complete HIV-related providers.
The federal government mentioned the marketing campaign may even undertake intensified case discovering, community-based HIV screening, cell testing initiatives and built-in well being camps.
The Delhi authorities can be offering monetary help to eligible folks residing with HIV by a devoted scheme applied by DSACS.
A complete of 8,047 beneficiaries have been enrolled underneath the scheme, which covers completely different classes, together with folks residing with HIV/AIDS, kids residing with HIV and orphan or destitute kids affected or contaminated by HIV/AIDS.
