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Social work by clerics in checking the spread of AIDS

... held on Tuesday speakers have raised an appeal to clerics to increase awareness about the disease to prevent it from spreading in the country.// This workshop titled “AIDS is not a sin but a disease” was organised by the provincial AIDS Control Programme in collaboration with World Health Organisation (WHO...

WHO Makes No Bones about Global Polio Eradication

...ed off in Northern Nigeria by stiff-necked Islamic clerics in the year 2003. The present deadline of 2006 does seem bleak, with polio cases prevailing in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. WHO’s technical advisory panel has said that these countries will probably need more than a year to evict the v...

AIDS Will Touch Half a Million Lives in Indonesia by 2010

...cause. Being a Moslem nation, some of the Moslem clerics are opposed to the use of condoms, and admonish the faithful to practice monogamy, or even abstinence as a solution to prevent the spread of HIV infection. MST...

Mosques in Pakistan to Preach Family Planning

...international aid agencies. "Like in Bangladesh, clerics would inform people about the significance of family planning in their sermons," Hussain told the Daily Times. He added that the ministry was planning to implement the programme at the time of Isha (last prayer of the day). Pakistan's current bir...

Muslim Clerics to Join Hands to Eradicate Polio

Several Islamic clerics in Uttar Pradesh are coming together to educate Mu...volved with the polio eradication campaign. Some clerics have volunteered to join the vaccination teams, which face Muslim resistance in several places. The ...

Madhya Pradesh Imbibes Family Planning Lessons from Pakistan

... model' that advocates use the religious texts and clerics for awareness campaign as well as the mosque to di...o distribute contraceptives at mosques and involve clerics in spreading family planning awareness", state Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi said. A recent news r...

Madhya Pradesh Imbibes Family Planning Lessons from Pakistan

... model' that advocates use the religious texts and clerics for awareness campaign as well as the mosque to di...o distribute contraceptives at mosques and involve clerics in spreading family planning awareness", state Health Minister Ajay Vishnoi said. A recent news rep...

Senior Church Leaders in Lesotho Pledge to Fight AIDS

...Reverend Mokhakhlane, said in the statement. The clerics signed the declaration in the presence of King Letsie III and Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, the statement said. In the declaration, the church leaders pledged to promote dignity, equality and rights of all people, especially those living with ...

Four Pakistan Children Abused Daily: SPARC Report

... their family, like teachers, coaches, physicians, clerics and neighbours, commit 49 per cent of the sexual assaults, the report said. "Around 75 per cent children who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation belong to the middle-class," said the SPARC report. The report also highlighted that Pakist...

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