The workshop organized by the National Council for the Fight against HIV / AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Epidemics (CNLSE), enabled participants to review the different strategies against the AIDS pandemic in the Republic of Congo.
The broad outlines that make up this document will allow the Congo not only to strengthen its control strategy, but also and above all to structure this fight by favoring various interventions in the field of prevention, research and care. This document will, in fact, serve as a guide in order to monitor all the interventions on AIDS in the Republic of Congo.
According to Dr Benjamin Atipo, executive director of the CNLSE, this pandemic remains generalized in the Republic of Congo. Since 2010, it has been virtually stable despite a prevalence rate of 3.2% in adults.
« This pandemic reduces the gain in life expectancy, jeopardizes productivity and alienates a large part of the efforts to fight poverty, thus jeopardizing the achievement of sustainable development objectives. », Explained the executive director of the CNLSE.
For his part, the Minister of Health and Population, Gilbert Mokoki, who is also vice-president of the national coordination of the fight against AIDS, sexually transmitted infections and epidemics, justified the need for Congo to extend its strategy of fight by the fact that AIDS continues to have a negative impact on the lives of certain citizens. According to him, the execution of these strategies contributes to the achievement of point three of the sustainable development objectives, which guarantees good health for all. At the same time, he reiterated the government’s desire to fight HIV / AIDS and sexually transmitted infections.
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