HIV/AIDS resource center inaugurated in Harrar town
Harrar, November 01, 2006 (WIC) – Free HIV/AIDS Resource Centers that provide information through Internet will be established throughout the country this Ethiopian year,the National HIV/AIDS Resource Center disclosed.
Speaking at the inauguration of the country’s fifth HIV/Aids Resource Center established in Harar town today, National HIV/AIDS Resource Center Head Gashaw Mengistu said efforts are underway to open other resource centers in nine states, including Addis Ababa and Diredawa cities, to raise the community’s awareness on HIV/AIDS.
He said the centers will be established with the financial and material support of the federal and regional HIV/AIDS prevention and control offices and the Country Office of the United States Center for Diseases Control (CDC)– Ethiopia.
The Head pointed out that resource centers have already gone operational in Addis Ababa, Diredawa, Mekelle and Adama towns, while similar centers will be opened in Awassa and Bahirdar towns soon.
He further said activities of establishing resource centers will be carried out in Jijjiga, Semera, Assosa and Gambella towns.
According to Gashaw,youth and various members of the society have brought about behavioral change as a result of the information they got from Internet.
While inaugurating the center, Harrari State Chief Administrator Murad Abdul Hadi said the center will be vital in enabling the community protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and care for AIDS patients.
CDC-Ethiopia Deputy Director Catherine Avery said on the occasion that the establishment of the center will promote the HIV/AIDS prevention activities the governments of the United States and Ethiopia have been undertaking.
Avery added that CDC-Ethiopia, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are working in close collaboration with the National HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office and other governmental and non-governmental organizations to prevent and control the spread of HIV/AIDS.
(c) Walta Information Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Speaking at the inauguration of the country’s fifth HIV/Aids Resource Center established in Harar town today, National HIV/AIDS Resource Center Head Gashaw Mengistu said efforts are underway to open other resource centers in nine states, including Addis Ababa and Diredawa cities, to raise the community’s awareness on HIV/AIDS.
He said the centers will be established with the financial and material support of the federal and regional HIV/AIDS prevention and control offices and the Country Office of the United States Center for Diseases Control (CDC)– Ethiopia.
The Head pointed out that resource centers have already gone operational in Addis Ababa, Diredawa, Mekelle and Adama towns, while similar centers will be opened in Awassa and Bahirdar towns soon.
He further said activities of establishing resource centers will be carried out in Jijjiga, Semera, Assosa and Gambella towns.
According to Gashaw,youth and various members of the society have brought about behavioral change as a result of the information they got from Internet.
While inaugurating the center, Harrari State Chief Administrator Murad Abdul Hadi said the center will be vital in enabling the community protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and care for AIDS patients.
CDC-Ethiopia Deputy Director Catherine Avery said on the occasion that the establishment of the center will promote the HIV/AIDS prevention activities the governments of the United States and Ethiopia have been undertaking.
Avery added that CDC-Ethiopia, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are working in close collaboration with the National HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office and other governmental and non-governmental organizations to prevent and control the spread of HIV/AIDS.
(c) Walta Information Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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