http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Meeting on how to deal with new arrivals of AIDS patients in Mukalla.Awareness [The Source: Al-mukalla/hadhramaut.info - 22/04/2009] Undersecretary Hadhramout governorate for coastal districts Mr. Awadh Abdallah Hatim called for more awareness and education for the citizens on the dangers of AIDS, with the individual and the community... He referred in his speech today to the participants in the awareness meeting organized by the National Program for health quarries, the national program to combat AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. .Pointed to the need for the siege of the disease by dealing with transparency and clarity, especially when the area of Hadhramoutis so vast  , in addition to that Yemen   in general is bordered by African countries .and  keeping silence on the issue   could lead to an increasing number of cases which could spell disaster on the individual and society. He emphasized on the need to sensitize the community not bad feeling towards   the AIDS patient, which may lead to reprisals, and called for concerted efforts as well to interact positively with the malignant disease to reduce its spread. For his part, the Director of the Office of Public Health and Population, Dr. Al-bd Rabieh  Ba-musa stressed  that, the fight against AIDS is  the duty and  also the  responsibility of everyone, pointing out some misconceptions some have about the disease in terms of transmission and contagion He also said  that the statistics and numbers of people  registered with the Ministry of Health is not yet known and called the  community to deal transparently with an AIDS patient care and treat him as any  other person in the community..On the hand  Dr. Abdullah Mohammad Mowla dawila - Deputy Director of Health Program quarantine -Sanaa added on his word, where he said that the aim of the meeting is to integrate health-care programs and the definition of health workers with the  quarantine centers and port of entries, the dangers of AIDS and its devastating effects ways how to with handle  aids patients coming to the country from outside.