HANAMKONDA, DECEMBER 01, 2025: Volunteers of the National Service Scheme (NCC) of Kakatiya Government College (autonomous), Hanamkonda, organised a World AIDS Day rally on Monday to raise awareness among society to check its prevention and eradication of the dreaded disease in the world by 2030.
Presiding over the programme, College In-charge Principal Rajneelatha said that AIDS spreads through unsafe sex, needles and syringes, blood transfusion and from pregnant women to children. Prevention is the best treatment for AIDS, so people should have safe sex, a single partner, and they should say no to drugs. Besides, only tested blood should be taken from authorised blood banks, and the pregnant women should be tested, she added.
She also laid importance on good behaviour with AIDS and HIV positive people. Stressing on maintaining good moral character among the youth of today and keeping them away from drugs, she talked about various facilities being provided at the government hospitals for HIV patients, along with free screening and counselling for HIV and AIDS. She also said people could dial 104 (toll-free) for any information on AIDS and other diseases.
She also reiterated that AIDS will not spread through ordinary handshakes, by using the cooking utensils of those infected with AIDS, or even by shaking hands between men and women infected with AIDS.
The awareness rally was organised from the College to Ashoka Talkies Junction. In this programme, college Vice Principal Rajasekhar, NSS Programme Officers Gangisetty Srinivas, Seetharam, Sandhya Rani, Gun Singh, Srinath, Shiva Naga Srinu, Ravi Kumar, Head of Microbiology Department Pallavi, Samatha Kishore, Mahender, Vasam Srinivas, J Chinna, B Srinivas, Anil Kumar, Ram Reddy, GK Kumar, Umadevi, B Ramesh, heads of various departments of the college, faculty, non-teaching staff, students participated in the rally and raised slogans that the youth should be conscious for an AIDS FREE SOCIETY.
