The District AIDS Committee (DAC) and District Response Management Team (DRMT) held a meeting to review HIV/AIDS activities in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region.
The meeting also seeks at assessing the progress and challenges confronting all stakeholders pursuing various efforts to reduce the spread of the disease.
In his welcome address the district HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation focal person Mr. Patrick Aparik noted that HIV/AIDS has become one of the global challenges that affect economic growth and called on stakeholders adopt measures to curb it.
He added that it is a manageable chronic disease and not a killer disease as perceived previously.
He said people with the disease can live their normal life like any other person and pregnant women can also give birth without transferring the virus to the child.
He urged members not to relent on their efforts to encouraged people to know their status.
BY: REGINA ATULE
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