Staff of Ministry of Finance reinforce fight against HIV/AIDS

The committee in charge of combating HIV/AIDS at the Ministry of Finance has revitalised their efforts ahead of the celebration of the World AIDS Day.

As the world waits to celebrate the day on 1st December, staff of the Ministry received some useful and detail information in a pre-campaign session to reinforce their fight against HIV/AIDS.

They were asked to rule out nonchalant behaviours which tend to stigmatise victims of the disease in this Ministry.

The Inspector General at the Ministry of Finance revealed that the health conditions of infected persons have improved while calling on all the other members of the committee to show more love and concern to infected persons instead of stigmatising them.

The pre-campaign is characterised by psychosocial counselling medical follow-up, and free screening test.

An association of personnel suffering from HIV AIDS have also been set up in this Ministry.

The committee to combat HIV/AIDS at the Ministry of Finance was set up eight years ago to boost the image of staff suffering from the infection.

Since its creation in 2006, the prevalence of HIV AIDS in the Ministry of Finance has dropped from 7% to 3% in 2014.