Amman, Ministry of Health and Forearms of Change Center to Enable Community (FOCCEC) on Wednesday launched a campaign entitled “We Are All Positive,” as part of the celebration of World AIDS Day.
This event aims to highlight HIV patients and remove barriers to their access to services and end inequalities in this regard, according to a joint statement.
Deputizing for Minister of Health, Acting Secretary-General of the Ministry of Health, Riyad Sheyab, said the world has been facing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, for four decades, and exerted efforts to alleviate related effects on societies and individuals.
Jordan, he said, has spared no effort in confronting HIV since it recorded its first infection in 1986, as the Kingdom established National AIDS programme in that year, to implement “distinguished” strategies and inputs that ensured, until this moment, low infection rates.
The ministry continues to raise awareness and prevention to curb HIV spread, provides the best patient-based treatments and offers services to people affected by the virus, in line with Jordan’s policy to extend blanket health services, he noted.
For his part, FOCCEC’s Director General, Abdullah Hanatleh, said the campaign comes within the center’s vision to highlight HIV patients’ suffering, removing structural barriers to their access to services and ending inequalities aimed to enjoy their rights.
This media campaign is inspired by stories of people living with the virus, he noted, calling on equality for HIV patients, which would lead to achieving their normal life and eliminate discrimination.
He noted the campaign is part of the regional Nadoum: Together for Change – Sustaining HIV services in MENA project, which aims to sustain the provision of services provided to combat HIV.
SOURCE: JORDAN NEWS AGENCY