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A Christmas Celebration was organised at Snehatheeram Rehabilitation Centre for People Living with HIV AIDS. As a part of this, a Health Awareness Programme cum Free Medical check-up was conducted by the SMIMS team. There were lots of singing, dancing and playing of games. Christmas cakes were distributed and we had lunch together in the afternoon. A group from YWCA, Trivandrum also attended. See more photos on the SMIMS website.
An awareness programme on healthy living was conducted on the 3rd of this month at Snehajyothi, Malaicode. The 6th semester MBBS students of SMIMS and the Dental Interns together presented more than 10 awarness items, including talks, demonstrations and skits. The audience were mothers of the children who avail services of the Snehajyothi Child Development Centre. The complete Photos can be seen on the SMIMS website.
This is the video of a little girl, dancing her heart out to the tune of a Malayalam Christian Song on World AIDS Day Commemoration 2009, organised by the Mar Thomma Church at Trivandrum, Kerala, India. She is HIV positive and an AIDS Orphan.
World AIDS Day 2009 was comemmorated at SMIMS on the First of December. Free Medical check-up and Lunch for around 100 People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) was arranged in collaboration with Snehatheeram, an NGO working in the field of rehabilitation of PLHAs. There was also an awareness program at the lobby of the OP building, where videos related to HIV/AIDS was screened.
My passion is exploring better methods of communication in the field of Medicine. I do this by trying out innovative educational tools, creating medical videos and animations and by developing high quality medical websites. I also teach Medicine in India.
