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A, Dr. Ganister de Silva Mawatha, Colombo
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<p class="yiv591101077msonormal" style="text-align:justify">PHM <span class="yshortcuts2">Sri Lanka</span> would like to announce the appointment of Dr
Vinya Ariyarathne [National Coordinator PHM Sri Lanka] as President of
College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka. This is a great achievement for
him as well as for PHM Sri </p>
<p class="yiv591101077msonormal" style="text-align:justify">Lanka. We take this
opportunity to congratulate Dr Vinya on your new appointment and please accept
our warm wishes.</p>
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Many Organizations informed us that they are having Police harassments when they carryout HIV/AIDS control programmes, especially when their workers carry condoms to vulnerable places. But carrying condoms is not a legal offence.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:6.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Many Organizations
informed us that they are having Police harassments when they carryout HIV/AIDS
control programmes, especially when their workers carry condoms to vulnerable
places. But carrying condoms is not a legal offence.</span></p>
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font-family:"Times New Roman"">PHM has brought this to the notice of the Health
Minister to take necessary steps to inform the Inspector-General of Police to
notify the Police Stations to stop this type of Police harassments during
HIV/AIDS control activities.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">PHM – Sri Lanka highly supports the
campaign of Breast Feeding.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is a
right of the child and the mother.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>PHM
Sri Lanka declared it as a social responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Society should protect that right and should
make a supportive environment towards this.<u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
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the Sri Lankan supportive groups should focus on two factors:-<u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span></u>At present, the WHO, UNICEF and the Sri Lanka Health
authorities advocate to the mothers to breast feed their babies exclusively for
six months.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However, working mothers do
not get maternity leave for a period of 06 months.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Hence, <u><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
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maternity leave should be<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>demanded.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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the moment, after the second child, the mothers do not get full maternity leave
i.e. not even 03 months.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This is a
violation of rights of the mothers and children.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We should take the leadership to stop this
discrimination.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Breast feeding is a
right of every child and mother. Hence, we would like to appeal from Health
Organizations, Right-based </span></p>
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organizations to take these matters seriously and give a leadership to the
rights of mothers and children. SIRIMAL PEIRIS</span><span style="font-size:
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font-family:"Times New Roman"">Menu Nilukshika participated on behalf of
Vikalpani National Women’s Federation Sri Lanka for the 4<sup>th</sup>
International assembly of the International league of People’s Struggle in
Manila Philippines,
She was participated to the commission no #12 is the Right of the Peoples
Health and The Right of the Health Workers. </span></p>
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Touch conduct by Dr. Ichiro Nagakawa, a clinical phychologist and an ordained
Buddhist mon came from Japan
and the workshop conducted in Sarvodaya Sri Lanka. NGO workers, teachers,
medical doctors, sisters and students were participated to this event and they
will learn this techniques within two days. </span></b><span style="font-family:
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