WIUT held World AIDS Day

The event, attended by the Director of UNAIDS in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan Lev Zagrobyan and representatives of UNAIDS, was led by Jasur Mirsagatov, a representative of the public movement “Red Ribbon”, which includes pop stars of CIS countries.

The event also marked the beginning of a charity event aimed at supporting children and women living with AIDS. For these purposes, WIUT will install boxes in the university campus through which everyone can bring their contribution in improving the lives of patients. The funds will be spent on food for infants born to HIV-positive mothers and who need breast milk substitutes, and multivitamins to HIV-positive children, adolescents, and equipment (sewing machines) for the employment of women with the AIDS disease.

It should be noted that at the end of November last year, WIUT organized charity event to raise funds to pay for expensive treatment of two girls treated at the Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Tashkent.

The campaign, which lasted until January of this year, hosted a charity concert “Ezgulik navolari” (Voices of Goodness) with the participation of university and academic lyceum students, accompanied by the orchestra “Young Talents of Uzbekistan”. Through the joint efforts, it was managed to completely pay for the treatment of Abduazimova Dilyafruz (born 2009), and partly of Huzhamberdieva Shohsanam (born 2004).

Volunteers of the last year’s fundraising charity were Umida Turaeva and Feruza Avezova, 2nd year students at WIUT. Given their good work during the past year and their experience, it was decided to invite the girls again to become managers of the charity project which started today.