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Kathmandu Wednesday November 29, 2000 Mangshir 14, 2057.
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AIDS awareness workshop held
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KATHMANDU, Nov 28 - In an effort to create an environment for
collaboration between the non-government organisations working in the sector of HIV/AIDS
and Micro Finance Institutes (MFIs) without losing their separate focus and
specialisation, a one-day workshop was organised here today. The non-government sector and
micro-finance sector are planning to integrate education on HIV/AIDS in the social
mobilisation activity by various ways. The idea borrowed from the experience and success
of MFIs integrating their work with awareness raising in Africa, will be tried out here in
Nepal too, according to Centre for Micro Finance (CMF). According to CMF, the MFIs can
integrate their programmes with awareness raising by educating the staff on HIV/AIDS and
providing educational materials and making the clients aware of the disease during the
group discussions. It also plans to assist NGOs working on HIV/AIDS in providing financial
services to their beneficiaries. Speaking at the inaugural session today, Bharati Silwal
Giri , assistant representative of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said the
micro finance sector must go beyond credits and savings and work towards saving lives as
well. She blamed the policy to control population stating that it ran contradictory to the
policies adopted to cope with HIV/AIDS.
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