Sauti Ya Siti
TAMWA continued to address HIV/AIDS infection from gender- based violence point of view. Our programme aimed at creating awareness on the need to fight violence against women and children and mitigating HIV/AIDS stigma by promoting Voluntary Counseling Testing and greater involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) in the campaign against the pandemic. The activities conducted such as PLWHAs declaring their status publicly through multi-media campaigns contributed a lot in creating awareness on gender violence and HIV/AIDS. Furthermore people understood more on the difference between living with HIV and suffering from AIDS as well as .the need to protect the rights of PLWHAs without undermining the drive to ensure greater involvement of PLWHAs in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Sauti Ya Siti
TAMWA was one of the implementing agents of the campaign undertaken under the auspices of the Tanzania Commission for AIDS and the National AIDS Control Programme. Other stakeholders are Health Scope, AfricaALive, Clouds FM, USAID, Ireland Aid and John Hopkins University / Population Communication (JHU/PC). Some activities of this programme, which had been launched in the previous year, were undertaken in 2002. The major ones were assessing media performance in relation to educating and sensitising young people, girls and boys that they are at risk of contracting HIV and thereafter issue awards.
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