Kathmandu: Nepal’s experts associated with the health sector have underlined the need for a sort of revision in the existing governmental policies on HIV/AIDS.

At a programme organised last Saturday by the Conscious Media Forum, experts opined that the existing policies acquired by the State have so far remained unable to control the varied aspects relating to the deadly disease.

Experts unanimously maintained that poverty was one prime factor that is heavily related to the cause and the spread of AIDS.

The chief of the health sector at the National Planning Commission Padma Mathema revealed that the nation’s Tenth Plan has taken proper note of HIV/AIDS and kept in priority.

“Since the disease is deeply rooted in the poverty stricken sector in the rural areas and hence efforts must be directed in order to alleviate poverty”, Mathema added.

Action Aid, Nepal Chief, Mr. Sibesh Chandra regmi, maintained that the sectors of the society who were being exploited and oppressed by the society were the ones to have been forced to adopt acts of unsafe sex and hence the spread of the disease.

Mr. Beni Bahadur Karki, Planning section of the health ministry, admitted that the frequent changes in the government also has been one of the causes that they have not been able to work in this regard effectively.

Participants lauded the support of the Action Aid and said that their support has gone in the safe hands.

The program of the Forum saw no personality on the chair-a grand departure indeed.

Kudos Conscious Media Forum! Keep it up!