The deadly HIV/AIDS Virus globally continues to take away the lives of millions of people, but in Liberia, the Government and some of its partners including the Inter-Religious Council of Liberia, IRCL, with support from the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, are not taken the fight against the killer’s virus lightly with massive campaign aimed at sensitizing the people the danger it pose to the country.
The Government and its partners have officially launched the start of a one project aimed at educating and including the religious communities in Liberia in the fight against the deadly HIV/AIDs disease. The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is the brain behind the sponsorship of the new campaign and launched the project in the port city of Buchanan in Grand Bassa County on December 1, 2010, the day officially observed as World AIDS Day.
According to the Secretariat, the program aims to target three counties in Liberia namely Montserrado, Grand Gedeh and Grand Bass counties. The launching program was held under the theme: “Universal Access to Human Rights”.
According to officials at the Inter-Religious Council of Liberia, the one year project is aimed at building and strengthening religious communities’ capacity to contribute to the global fight against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases in Liberia.
During the one year program, the IRCL says religious leaders will be trained to educate their followers and audience in their various places of congregation and worship on the facts about HIV/AIDS. The program will also train religious leader in the targeted counties for onward education to their congregation about peaceful co-existence with sufferers of the deadly disease as well as trainings against stigmatization and discrimination of HIV/AIDS carriers. The program will focus on mosques, and churches as well as traditional religious believers.
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