The International SIDA Day at Beirut Arab University
On the International SIDA Day the First of December, students in the Faculty of Medicine at Beirut Arab University organized an awareness campaign about the SIDA disease. Miss Lebanon, Yara Khouri Mickael participated in the event.
In rooms specially designed to mock conditions under which people get infected with SIDA, students explained all about delinquency, the health conditions of the SIDA patient, clinical and psychological therapies and treatments, the importance of continuous follow-up with specialists, and the importance of conscious awareness after the infection, and concluded with guidance instructions on how uninfected people can avoid this disease.
After that, Miss Lebanon gave a speech. She drew the attention to the importance of awareness campaigns and announced her support to the students in their campaign. Later on, Professor Mohammad Khodr, the dean of Faculty of medicine, gave Miss Lebanon the Appreciation Shield after which she toured the place and praised the efforts made to accomplish it.
On SIDA Day, in the frame of Awareness Day, one patient talked about his experience with SIDA and the circumstances and difficulties he has been facing continuously. He emphasized on the importance of prevention measures to avoid being infected with the disease. He also stressed on the importance of social support for people infected by SIDA.
