CHANDIGARH: A state level exhibition on ‘Youths Voice on HIV-AIDS Free India’ was jointly organised by the Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST), Hisar  and Haryana State AIDS Control Society, Panchkula in the premises of GJUST, Hisar to mark Worlds AIDS Day.

The exhibition was inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor of GJUST, Hisar, Dr.Devender Dayal Singh Sandhu.  The exhibition was organised with the cooperation of National Service Centre and Centre for Behaviour Research and Intervention. Students of all the Universities and 18 colleges of Haryana took part in this exhibition.
      
Speaking on this occasion, Dr.Sandhu said that healthy youth was the pre-requisite for a strong society.  Mass awakening should be created of the diseases like AIDS to check its further spread. AIDS is a deadly disease and only prevention is the cure of this disease, he added.
       
Dr.Sandhu said that as per estimate there were 1492 AIDS patients in  Haryana and the number of HIV positive cases had reached the mark of 13000 and the number of these cases was increasing continuously.
      
Dr.Rakesh Chaudhary, Additional Project Director, Haryana State AIDS Control Socieity, Panchkula, said that there were 394 AIDS patients in Rohtak, 206 in Jhajjar, 202 in Sonipat, 162 in Jind, 141 in Bhiwani, 89 in Hisar, 23 in Mahendragarh, 7 in Faridabad, 13 in Gurgaon, 21 in Fatehabad, 2 in Kurukshetra, one in Ambala, five in Yamunanagar, four in Mewat. 53 in Panipat, 15 in Panchkula, 50 in Karnal, 22 each in Rewari and Sirsa and 19 in Kaithal and 41 AIDS patients belonged to other states.