37 Battalion BSF Chedema in joint effort with Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) organised an HIV/AIDS awareness programme in which, over 100 participants including officers, troops and family members of BSF attended the same.

At the onset, S P Singh, 2nd in Command BSF, welcomed the resource persons and staffs from NSACS and also appreciated the effort on how NSACS is reaching out to the people and educating the awareness in HIV/AIDS related issues.

The resource persons for the programme were, Dr Menokho Zao, Inato, Deputy Director, NSACS and Rokovizo, Additional Director, NSACS.

During the programme, various aspects relating to issues like, spread of HIV, preventive measures, syndromes, treatment etc were exhorted by the resource persons.

After the programme, a voluntary free HIV blood test was conducted by the NSACS teams for the participants.