NLFA Team arrives Bangkok to attend International AIDS Congress
Source: NEPS *
Kohima, November 17 2013:
A team of Nagaland Legislature Forum for AIDS (NLFA) led by Assembly Speaker Chotisuh Sazo has arrived in Bangkok this morning to attend the "11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP)" to be held from November 18 to 22, 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Talking to NEPS over phone this evening from Bangkok, Sazo said their NLFA team members are himself as team leader, Er Levi Rengma, Deputy Speaker, NLA, Mmholumo Kikon, MLA, Ameba Yaden, MLA, Toyang Chang, MLA and Khekaho Assumi, MLA and also Dr Vinito Chishi, State Consultant on NLFA and Miss Hukatoli, an Official of the NLFA.
He said Mmholumo Kikon, MLA, who was at Hong Kong, joined their Team at Bangkok this morning.
Sazo, who is also Convener of NLFA, disclosed that the main program would be on Monday and further stated that he would stress on the importance of keeping strict vigil on the porous International border to Nagaland State as such HIV/AIDS also allegedly came to their side from across the International border of Myanmar.
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"We should adopt some kind of mechanism as to how we can prevent spreading of HIV/AIDS from across the International border," he said disclosing that the State (Nagaland) has 250 kilometers bordering with Myanmar.
"I am going to draw attention of the world leaders who are attending in this very important 11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific at Bangkok," he added.
"I personally believe that once a mechanism is drawn up to check cross border activities in those porous areas, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS will reduce considerably," he said.
The Nagaland Speaker also stated that he would draw the attention of the world leader at Bangkok Congress to seriously ponder over the dangerous issues of Hepatitis C because this "menace" was always associated with HIV patients.
"We have to find ways to solve this area too," he added.
Dr Vinito Chishi, State Consultant on NLFA, while talking to NEPS Saturday at Dimapur Airport before leaving for Bangkok, expressed the hope that attending such International Congress on AIDS by their legislators at Bangkok would immensely give fruitful education to "our legislators" .