World AIDS Day 2022
Audio Album-1 title Youth AIDS Awareness Chennai Gaana Songs
Indian Community Welfare Organisation-I.C.W.O. is a nongovernmental organization working on various developmental projects with a specific focus on women and children for the past 28 years in Chennai.
ICWO – Indian Community Welfare Organisation with the support from The Mercury Phoenix Trust, UK developed Audio Album-1 titled “Youth AIDS Awareness Chennai Gaana Songs”.
On 29th November 2022 the Audio Album titled “Youth AIDS Awareness Chennai Gaana Songs” was released by Thiru.T.N.Hariharan, I.A.S., Project Director, Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS on 29th November 2022, TNSACS Office, Egmore, Chennai on the eve of World AIDS Day 2022.
Thiru.T.N.Hariharan, I.A.S., Project Director, Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS released the Poster. The First Copy of the Poster was received by Thiru. Dr.M.Janakiram, MBBS MD, Deputy Director, Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS, and the Second Copy of the Poster received by Thiru.S.Christy, Administrative Officer, Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS and Dr.Poonkodi, Deputy Director – STI, Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS.
Speaking on the occasion Thiru.T.N.Hariharan, I.A.S., Project Director, Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS said On this World AIDS day 2022 with the theme of Equalize let us work together to Reform laws, policies, and practices to tackle the stigma and exclusion faced by people living with HIV and by key and marginalized populations so that everyone is shown respect and is welcomed.
Thiru.T.N.Hariharan, I.A.S., Project Director, Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS released the “Youth AIDS Awareness Chennai Gaana Songs” organized by Indian Community Welfare Organisation and supported by The Mercury Phoenix Trust, UK.
Speaking the occasion Thiru. Dr.M.Janakiram, Deputy Director, of Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society- TNSACS said Communities should identify the inequalities they are facing and help the policymakers to address them and also ensure the sharing of technology to enable equal access to the best HIV science.
Speaking at the occasion Mr.A.J.Hariharan, Secretary-ICWO said that the need of the hour is to focus on creating awareness among young people. Aiming to reach the youth, we have identified Chennai Gaana Songs as a mode to create Awareness of HIV/AIDS among young people. Today we released 5 songs on the theme to STOP stigma discrimination against People living with HIV/AIDS, the importance of Condom usage in HIV prevention, and Awareness of the mode of transmission and ways to protect themselves. We ICWO developed the First Album in partnership with Mercury Phoenix Trust, UK.
I.C.W.O are also in the process of developing the video graph of the songs to promote on social media to reach more young people to create Awareness of HIV/AIDS.
The team who developed the Video and Audio Songs are Mr.A.R.Vinoth, Visuals, and Gaana Lyrics Written by Mr.Attuthotti Kamalanathan and Mr.Gaana Sakthi. Singers Mr.Appilo, Mr.Vinayagan, and Mr.Francis. Video Artist Mr.Gimkelly and Ms.Saritha. Music Directed by Mr.Shajahan and Directed by A.J.Hariharan.
The lyrics/Content approval committee members are Mr. A.Bakthavatchalam, Director-ARM, Mr.B.Sekar, Director-SWAM and Mr.B.U.Maheshwaran, Director, Network SMI.
