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 Minister underscores human rights in message for World AIDS DAY
Tuesday, December 1 – Minister of Health and Social Development Honourable Dancia Penn, OBE, QC underscored the need to safeguard the human rights of persons living with HIV in her message for World AIDS Day.
She also recommitted her support for universal access to treatment, care, and support for persons with the disease in recognition of the Day’s theme, “Universal Access and Human Rights”.
As Minister of Health, Honourable Penn said she is in favour of universal access as one of the fundamental rights supported under the Virgin Islands Constitution. “The protection of human rights is fundamental and essential to combating the HIV epidemic,” she stated.
The Minister announced that Government has already initiated anti-discrimination programmes to reduce stigma while increasing the privacy of persons with HIV. By so doing, she said, the Territory has joined the international community in pledging to work towards universal access to prevention, treatment and care for persons living with HIV.
“We are currently engaged in research to determine which groups within our Territory are most vulnerable to HIV. This research will provide data to effectively plan and develop appropriate sexual health promotion activities that will reduce, and hopefully halt the spread of HIV,” she announced.
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