Present there were officials of ministries, national institutions and working people's organizations, officials in the field of public health in Pyongyang and staff members of missions of international organizations here.

Ri Pong Hun, vice-minister of Public Health, referred to the fact that brisk observation, control activities and hygienic information service are under way in the DPRK to prevent AIDS.

He stressed that the DPRK would continue paying state attention to the work for preventing AIDS in close touch with the WHO and other international organizations.

Then the floor was taken by Sarveshwar Puri, representative of the WHO here, and Finn Jarle Rode, head of the delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies active in the DPRK.

There was a lecture given under the title of "Activities for Preventing and Controlling AIDS in the DPRK."

The participants watched a CD titled "On AIDS" and a performance given by an art group for hygienic information service.