‘Drug abuse treatment must be case specific’

Pune: On June 26th Wake Up Pune organized a talk show at Wadia College in response to the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking. Various panelists expressed their views and experiences in a talk show on the topic Do drugs control your life?.

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Bhojwani School Awareness Session

Wake up Pune conducted a school awareness session on Wednesday the 22nd of April at   Bhojwani school, a private school on the outskirts of Pune. The students of one of the 10th standard classes were continuing their education about the risks and stigma that are associated with sexually transmitted infections especially in regards to HIV/AIDS.

Film Festival at Tadiwala Road

Naco chief slams Venkaiah report

NEW DELHI: "If all Indians are bramhcharis, then how come 30% of all HIV infections at present are within the age group of 15-24 years?"Â  

This was the reaction of K Sujatah Rao, director-general of National Aids Control Organisation K Sujatha Rao, to Rajya Sabha's Committee on Petitions' argument slamming the HRD ministry's Adult Education Programme (AEP).

Comprising RS members and headed by BJP's Venkaiah Naidu, the committee has recommended that there should be no sex education in schools. According to the committee, AEP is a "cleverly used euphemism whose real objective was to impart sex education in schools and promote promiscuity".

The Times of India

  

Indian state bans sex education

India's Maharashtra state has banned the introduction of sex education in schools after protests from legislators who say it will corrupt young minds.

The move is being seen as a setback to central government efforts to introduce sex education in schools countrywide.

Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh states recently announced similar decisions.

India has the highest number of Aids patients in the world. However sex is still a taboo subject in many parts of the country.

The Maharashtra government also said it will not be introducing sex education books as part of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) syllabus.

Monica Chadha, BBC News

A Real Problem, Here

The AIDS epidemic is spreading faster than previously thought, even as the American public's concern about it declines. That dangerous disconnect underscores the urgency of a new campaign announced by the Obama administration to combat complacency about the disease and its potential to strike the unwary.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2006, 56,000 people around the country were newly infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, a hefty boost from previous estimates of 40,000.

The New York Times

Parliamentary panel says no to sex education in schools

NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary committee has disfavoured introduction of sex education in schools and suggested inclusion of appropriate chapters in  
Biology syllabus, but not before plus two stage.

"Message should appropriately be given to school children that there should be no sex before marriage which is immoral, unethical and unhealthy," the committee on petitions of Rajya Sabha said in its latest report which said "there should be no sex education in schools".

The Times of India

‘Alarming Complacency’ About HIV/AIDS In U.S., Editorial Says

Swaziland: A Culture That Encourages HIV/Aids

Mbabane - Anecdotal evidence that entrenched cultural beliefs among Swazis actively encourage the spread of HIV/AIDS has been confirmed by a joint government and UN report.

The study by UN the Population Fund (UNFPA) and Swaziland's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare - The State of the Swaziland Population - echoes warnings by local NGOs that "AIDS cannot be stopped unless there is a change in people's sexual behaviour."

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