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Angola: Bie - Kuito Holds HIV/Aids Workshop

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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

21 May 2008
Posted to the web 21 May 2008

Kuito

Some forty pastors from Evangelical Churches Alliance of Angola (AEA) and other religious organisations, from different regions of the country, are attending a HIV/AIDS workshop that started Wednesday in Kuito, Bie province

The three-day seminar will discuss among various topics, the ongoing epidemiological situation in Angola, counselling and testing of HIV/AIDS, its transmission and prevention, the health condition, thinking about culture and HIV/AIDS, infidelity, youths and HIV/AIDS, advises before marriage.

Treatment of HIV/AIDS, stigma and meditation, what to do to people infected with HIV/AIDS, as well as church's mission in the struggle against the AIDS scourge are, among others, the matters drawing attention of the participants.

On the occasion, the pastor of Lutheran Church of Angola in Bié, Mário Passala Velho underlined that the action aims to share efforts amongst different religious congregations, Government and Civil society, with a view to find mechanism leading to the reduction of spreading of the disease within communities.

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