27 October 2008
Saurimo — The workshop on HIV/AIDS control and prevention at the working place, held at Catoca eastern Lunda Sul over the weekend, recommended the adoption of measures aiming at abolishing stigma suffered by HIV/AIDS positive people.
The event, organised by the health sector of the Catoca's mining society aimed the exchange of experiences on Aids impact at the working place, as well as discussion of aspects such as prevention and control of the disease.
The meeting also recommended the hold of other workshops at other mining branches of the surroundings, associated to the OMA (Angola's women Organisation) the women promotion, athletes, students and other agents.
The chairperson of Endiama Administrative Board, Arnaldo Calado, who was present at the event, said that such actions will facilitate ailing persons such as the health technicians, to deal with such situations.
He suggested these technicians to convince the companies, clinics and medical centres to open a window where any infected person may "solve a problem" without fear of discriminations.
The official asked HIV/AIDS positive people to face the problem naturally and to acquire the available antiretroviral, as he stated there are diseases that do not have any solution.
On his turn, the director of Catoca mining society, José Manuel Ganga Júnior, highlighted that the aids pandemic in Africa is linked to the low socio.-economic level, lack of information and poverty.
Today, the most serious consequences such as premature death in the active economic active age group and within family constitute a great social and economic problem in the sub-Sahara Africa, he stressed.
Flávio Francisco, of Catota's metallurgic department, told Angop that the event has a particular importance because it discusses topics of concerning for the country.
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