Daloa, 1is Apr 2023 (AIP) – The Haut Sassandra regional committee for the fight against HIV/AIDS concluded, Friday, March 31, 2023, on the need to continue multisectoral, community and association activities to further reduce the number of infections, during a coordination meeting.
The disease and the virus that causes it continue to be a public health problem in Côte d’Ivoire and in the region, despite important progress having resulted in the significant reduction in the number of infections, the official said. health action to the regional director, Dr Joëlle Attia.
Dr Attia, who presented the results of the committee’s activities for 2022, called in particular on community actors for more involvement and commitment in the fight to reduce the number of cases of loss of sight of patients.
The objective of the fight is to succeed in detecting 95% of people living with HIV so that they know their serological status, to put 95% of these people on treatment and to make the viral load of 95% of HIV-positive people undetectable. under treatment, she recalled.
Major challenges facing the regional control committee include identifying people living with the virus, reducing the number of new infections, transmission and eradicating mother-to-child transmission, the official said. Regional Director of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage, Dr Karamoko Fofana.
The departmental director of health of Daloa, Manouan Bile, added the prejudices linked to the infection. According to him, the community can play a big role in deconstructing these prejudices which are a blocking factor in the fight.
Some 14,000 people live with HIV in the health region, learned the AIP on the spot.
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