World AIDS Day candlelight ceremony at Dundee SAPS
Get tested and know your status, the sooner you know, the sooner you can start your treatment.
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and the Dundee SAPS held a commemoration service this morning, in remembrance of those who have succumbed to HIV/AIDS. Candles were lit during a short ceremony in the SAPS lecture room.
Capt Mdini (SAPS Social Worker) lighting the candle…
This year’s theme is: “Know your status”, the community was advised to get tested and to start treatment as soon as possible.
In 2014, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and partners launched the 90–90–9o strategy with the aim to diagnose 90% of all HIV-positive persons, provide antiretroviral therapy for 90% of those diagnosed, and achieve viral suppression for 90% of those treated by 2020.
The youth were encouraged to go for HIV tests, and they were assured that they are entitled to having confidential testings at clinics and hospitals.
The organisers of this event were Captain Makhatso, Capt Mbense (SAPS Communications Officer), Capt Mdini (SAPS Social Worker) and SAPS Peers Educator Clerk Maboe.
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