Panafrican News Agency - January 15, 2002
The campaign will involve the participation of prefects, vice- prefects, mayors, MPs as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) fighting the HIV/AIDS scourge. It is scheduled to start officially on 24 January through late December 2002.
According to promoters, "Cote d'Ivoire's Tour Against AIDS" aims at "taking stock of the current situation as regards treatment, prevention, raising people's awareness as to the scope of the pandemic (as well as) involving of all departmental leaders".
Departmental committees have been established in order to "mobilise the population and coordinate all control activities" to be locally implemented.
The Tour is to start in the Aboisso and Adiake departments, south-east of Cote d'Ivoire, and come to an end in San-Pedro (400 km south-east of Abidjan).
The campaign is organised in the wake of a previous one launched by the First Lady, Ehivet Gbagbo, from October till late December 2000.
Cote d'Ivoire, the most seriously affected country of the sub- region, with a prevalence rate of about 10 percent, has been confronted for nearly 17 years with the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The first cases were discovered in 1985.
In 2000, Cote d'Ivoire's population of HIV-positive patients was one million, with a death toll of 420,000 due to AIDS.
Last November several executive officers, human resources managers, company medical officers and workers' representatives from power and water companies from six French-speaking countries in West Africa participated in a sub-regional workshop held in Abidjan on HIV/AIDS.
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