Clergy to lead anti-AIDs stigma drive
Nov 28, 2003
RELIGIOUS leaders yesterday pledged to lead the fight against the stigmatisation and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS.
By Richard Komakech
RELIGIOUS leaders yesterday pledged to lead the fight against the stigmatisation and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS.
This is also the theme of this year’s World AIDS Day celebrations to be marked on Monday.
Anglican Archbishop Mpalanyi Nkoyooyo, who is chairman of the Council of Presidents of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU), said HIV/AIDS was a national issue that needed proactive preventive measures.
“As religious leaders, we have the potential to be excellent conduits of information and constructive messages. I urge our religious leaders not to abdicate their responsibility, but to play a positive role in the fight against stigma and discrimination against people with AIDS,†Nkoyooyo said yesterday at an IRCU religious leaders workshop on HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination.
With funding from the United States Agency for International Development and the Norwegian Development Agency, IRCU runs 35 HIV/AIDS projects in 10 districts in the country.
RELIGIOUS leaders yesterday pledged to lead the fight against the stigmatisation and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS.
This is also the theme of this year’s World AIDS Day celebrations to be marked on Monday.
Anglican Archbishop Mpalanyi Nkoyooyo, who is chairman of the Council of Presidents of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU), said HIV/AIDS was a national issue that needed proactive preventive measures.
“As religious leaders, we have the potential to be excellent conduits of information and constructive messages. I urge our religious leaders not to abdicate their responsibility, but to play a positive role in the fight against stigma and discrimination against people with AIDS,†Nkoyooyo said yesterday at an IRCU religious leaders workshop on HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination.
With funding from the United States Agency for International Development and the Norwegian Development Agency, IRCU runs 35 HIV/AIDS projects in 10 districts in the country.