Gambia: Forum Discourages Stigmatisation, Discrimination Against HIV/Aids Patients

29 November 2013

By Bekai Njie

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Thursday convened a daylong forum for stakeholders in the fight against HIV/AIDS, designed among other things, to discourage stigmatisation and discrimination of people living with the disease.

The forum also created the opportunity for information sharing, consensus building on key development issues, facilitation of dissemination of best practices and strengthening of policy making for the government of The Gambia. The director of the National Aids Secretariat (NAS), Ousman Badjie, at the occasion, disclosed that the number of people living with AIDS in 2001 was 34 million, with sub-Saharan Africa severely affected.

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