| Harare, Zimbabwe – Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) will on Wednesday 4 February 2009, host a sensitisation workshop for national policy makers and leaders to discuss issues around treatment literacy in Zimbabwe. The event will take place at the Rainbow Towers Hotel, Jacaranda Room, from 8.30am to 4.30 pm.
The one-day workshop is being held under the HIV and AIDS component of Zimbabwe’s successful Round 5 bid to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFTAM), and will be hosted under the theme, ‘Pushing out Frontiers: Engaging Policy Makers on Key National ART Responses’.
Policy makers, at all levels, play an important oversight role in the policy development and implementation process. However the majority of these important policy makers remain unaware and unclear about the concept of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services in the Zimbabwean context, as well as their possible roles and contributions towards the challenge.
Raising their awareness of treatment issues, therefore, becomes essential for the strengthening of a national treatment roll-out programme in Zimbabwe. This workshop will therefore seek to raise awareness among policy makers, at national level, of the role of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in enhancing the national response to the pandemic. The workshop will also impart knowledge on the linkages between HIV prevention and treatment.
Fifty participants, among them parliamentarians, traditional leaders, health departments of police, army and prisons services and representatives of provincial AIDS coordinating bodies, are expected to attend the workshop to share their views and opinions on treatment literacy levels in Zimbabwe.
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For more information, please contact:
Beatrice Tonhodzayi Mary Leakey
Programme Officer, Media Programme Officer
Email: beatrice@safaids.org.zw mary@safaids.org.zw
Tel : +263 – 4 – 336193/4
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