By Punjabnewswire4u
AMRITSAR, JAN 16
To create awareness about the deadly disease of AIDS, a seminar was today organized at Khalsa College of Education (KCE). Senior Medical Officer and National Trainer, Family Health, Dr.Baljit Kaur said in her lecture that there is no cure as such for the HIV and only cure is prevention which emanates from awareness.
She stressed that the `window period’ (till the time HIV remains inactive) is turning out to be highly crucial in treatment and prevention of the deadly disease. Dr.Baljit who was felicitated by KCE Principal Dr.Jaswinder Singh Dhillon, said usually the window period is from 0-9 months and during this period the HIV cannot be detected and when it becomes active it might have infected many more people.
``This is serious trouble before us as doctors but ways are being devised to diagnose the infections during this period too. She said teachers can be highly helpful in spreading awareness about HIV. She also showed a video on subject and stated that 85 per cent infections take place due to sexual contacts and rest during blood transfusion, using infected syringes by drug addicts and from mother to child.
Dr.Dhillon said the teachers and students were enriched by the highly informative lecture by Dr.Baljit and there was need of more awareness and precautionary measures to check the spread of AIDS. Others present during the seminar included Prof. Harpreet Kaur, Prof.Gurjit Kaur, Kaur, Prof.Maninder Kaur, Prof.Nirmaljit Kaur Sandhu, Prof.Deepika Kohli and KCGC Deputy Director DS Rataul, apart from large number of teachers and students.
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