AIDS no reason for kids to feel depressed: District Collector D Muralidhar Reddy

Kakinada: District Collector D Muralidhar Reddy exhorted the AIDS affected children to overcome it with hope and acquiring self-confidence. He participated in a breakfast meeting with the AIDS affected children here on Friday on the eve of World's AIDS Day. He assured the children for supporting them in health and education. He told the children that the disease affects the body, but, not the mind.

Participating in the programme, Kakinada City MLA Dwarampudi Chandrasekhar Reddy said that the children should not suffer from depression with AIDS and they should engage themselves in other programmes.

Later, an AIDs awareness rally was held at Kakinada from P R Government College to Balajicheruvu. Kakinada Mayor Sunkara Pavani said that prevention is the only alternative to the challenging disease AIDs which needs wider awareness among the people to protect from this disease.