PESHAWAR, Dec 24: A one-day workshop organized by the Provincial AIDS Control Programme, NWFP, in collaboration with Unicef to create awareness among religious leaders about HIV/AIDS was held at the Lady Reading Hospital here on Monday.

The seminar highlighted the basic causes of this deadly disease and stressed the need for adopting preventive measures at all levels. Religious leaders of the Peshawar district attended the workshop.

Similar workshops had already been held in districts of Swabi, Kohat, Charsadda and Buner in October and November, which were attended by about 200 Ulema. They had been imparted training on the preventive measures for HIV/AIDS for the purpose of disseminating the message to the grassroots level.

Such workshops have also been planned for the community leaders and travel agents in all the districts of the NWFP in collaboration with Unicef in 2002.

Convocation: The annual convocation of Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar, is scheduled to be held in the auditorium of Khyber Medical College, on Dec 27.

All graduates, who have passed their final professional BDS examination in 1991 and onwards, have been requested to collect the convocation gown on Dec 26. A rehearsal of the convocation will take place on the same day at 11am.