Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

Angola: Media Organs Deemed As Partners in Fight Against HIV/Aids

31 October 2012
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Luanda — The director of the National Institute of Fight Against HIV/AIDS, Dulcelina Serrano, on Wednesday here said that the social communication organs are important partners in divulging the programmes of fight against the illness.

Dulcelina Serrano said so during a talk held by the forum of journalists women for equality in gender, and defended the need for a collaboration of this institution with press in the explanation of the danger of this illness.

She expressed concern about the reduced number of voluntary that appear to the centre to know on their serologic state, therefore the necessity of divulging the advantage of the examination.

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