Participants at a World AIDS Day parade in Bwiam have been told that HIV/AIDS is a human rights issue which should be recognized as such by both victims of the disease and those who are not infected.
The Gambia Family Planning Association (GFPA) in collaboration with the Youth Action Movement (YAM) recently commemorated World AIDS Day in Bwiam, Foni Kansala district, West Coast Region. The commemoration was in the form of a march pass by school children, Kanyeleng groups, voluntary organizations and youth groups. The parade took them from the Sulayman Junkung Jammeh General Hospital to the Gambia Family Planning Branch.
With “Universal Access and Human Right” as theme of the occasion, the West Coast’s regional AIDS coordinator impressed upon participants that the human rights of victims is an issue which should not be relegated to the position of secondary issues which end up clouding people’s perception and judgment of the AIDS situation.
Kebba Johm said observing the day was necessary to show to those infected with the disease and those safe from it that people’s rights irrespective of their health status must be seen as inalienable by all and sundry.
Johm noted that this year’s theme has been chosen to cast minds back to the critical need to protect the human rights of victims and ensure access to HIV prevention and treatment, care and support
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