Union Minister of Health and Family welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan on January 12, 2021 inaugurated the first ‘The Grand Finale of the Red Ribbon Quiz Competition’ organized by the National AIDS Control Organization and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
- NACO has been implementing the Adolescence Education Programme since 2005 in collaboration with NCERT in more than 50,000 schools.
- NACO has also established 12,500 Red Ribbon Clubs (RRCs) to reach out to the college going youth.
- This programme is a comprehensive promotional and preventive intervention to harness the potential, specifically to mainstream HIV prevention, care & support and treatment, impact mitigation, stigma reduction and enhance Voluntary Blood Donation.
