The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination in collaboration with Ministry of Narcotics Control (MONC), UNODC, UNDP, UNAIDS and WHO organized an awareness workshop on Drug Use and HIV here on Tuesday to create awareness among health journalists on drug abuse, HIV AIDS, HIV prevention among people who inject drugs (PWIDs), harm reduction and OAMT.
The one-day workshop was attended by representatives of key media houses and prominent health journalists. Dr. Farrukh Mahmood from UNODC welcomed all the participants and said that the workshop was being organized to create awareness on drug use and drug use related HIV, the various interventions/approaches for drug dependence treatment and prevention of HIV and blood borne infections transmission among PWI Ds. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Narcotics Controlm Shahzad Durrani in his opening remarks, emphasized on the need of collective and coordinated efforts to deal with the menace of HIV among PWIDs.
