TQM report,
Every year, on 1 December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS.
POVERTY AND DISABILITY INITIATIVE IN NIGERIA (PADIN) in commemoration of this year’s World AIDS Day organized a reach out to highlight the urgent need to end the inequalities and discriminations that drive AIDS and other pandemics around the world.
The group reached out to over 100 Nigerian youths both persons without disabilities and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in FCT. The beneficiaries were given HIV SELF TEST-KITS.
The program was supported by National Agency for the Control of AIDs NACA) and KRP communication center who collaborated with PADIN to educate the participants on how to use HIV SELF TEST KITS effectively.
In a press statement signed by the Olatunji Lincoln, the founder of the organization, the group stated that without bold action against inequalities and discriminations, the world risks missing the targets to end AIDS by 2030, as well as a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and a spiraling social and economic crisis.
“Forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported, HIV still threatens the world. Today, the world is off track from delivering on the shared commitment to end AIDS by 2030 not because of a lack of knowledge or tools to beat AIDS, but because of structural inequalities and discriminations that obstruct proven solutions to HIV prevention and treatment”.
“Economic, social, cultural and legal inequalities must be ended as a matter of urgency if we are to end AIDS by 2030”.
They also stated that although there is a perception that a time of crisis is not the right time to prioritize tackling the underlying social injustices, it is clear that without doing so the crisis cannot be overcome.
