This year’s day, under the theme “Universal Access and Human Rights”, is being marked in Zarqa because it is the country’s cultural city for this year, according to Bassam Hijjawi, director of the ministry’s primary health directorate.
“Each year we select the cultural city to hold our awareness campaign so that all governorates will have their share of education on the issue,” he explained.
Hijjawi also revealed that the Ministry of Health, in cooperation with other concerned parties, will draft a five-year strategy to combat AIDS.
“The strategy will focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV as there are 18 children diagnosed with the disease in Jordan,” he said, adding that five of them are under five years old.
Noting that Jordan is a country with low prevalence of the disease, Hijjawi said it is important to educate the public on the means of transmission in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
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