World Aids Day rally in Ratodero

LARKANA:

A World Aids Day rally was held in Rotodero on Wednesday.

The town was hit by HIV/Aids infections due to some doctors reusing injection syringes.

For no fault of their own, at least 1,700 people of this town now live with the HIV infection owing to misconduct of doctors who reused disposable syringes causing the infection to spread among large number of people. Bridge Consultants Foundation (BCF) also took out a large rally in Ratodero from Allahwala Chowk which was also participated by members of civil society.

BCF Project Manager Altaf Ahmed Soomro while talking to newsmen said that there are 3,336 registered HIV positive cases in Larkana and over 1,700 in Ratodero adding 80% among them are children.

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A meeting of mothers of the affected children was also arranged at Circuit House in Ratodero to express solidarity with them. They also arranged an awareness meeting with religious leaders. In Larkana, an awareness rally was taken out from Shaikh Zayed Women Hospital which after marching through various roads culminated at Jinnah Bagh on World Aids Day.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 2^nd, 2021.