Maseru, Oct. 14—Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called for increased domestic funding, HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health integration and youth involvement to accelerate progress in HIV prevention and access to SRH services across the region.
The plea was made in a joint meeting of the National AIDS Commission Directors and Programme Managers responsible for HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) from the SADC region.
The Joint Meeting was convened under the theme, Accelerating HIV Prevention and Access to Integrated SRHServices:Tackling Inequalities, Securing a Sustainable Response.
In her welcome remarks, the Director of Social and Human Development at the SADC Secretariat, Ms. Duduzile Simelane highlighted that the SADC region continues to take bold and exemplary leadership in the fight against HIV, citing as examples, seven SADC member states namely Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe that have already met the UNAIDS 95–95–95 targets ahead of the 2025 deadline while other Member States such as the United Republic of Tanzania are very close to the 95% goal…
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