UNAIDS Office in Colombo Designed HIV/AIDS Awareness Programmes With The Aim To Eliminate The Disease From Sri Lanka By 2030

The Sri Lankan Office of UNAIDS(United Nations AIDS) Programme has designed awareness programmes on HIV/AIDS to be implemented  in Sri Lanka with  aim of eliminating the disease from  country by  year 2030 according to the UNAIDS Office in Colombo.

Under this UNAIDS is targeting to have  Zero HIV Positives,Zero AIDS related deaths and Zero Discrimination towards people living in HIV Virus in Sri Lanka by the year 2030 .

"UNAIDS has estimated that around 200,000 unprotected sexual activities happened daily in Sri Lanka and the high risk groups vulnerable for  spreading the disease like sex workers especially male sex workers are on the increase.Therefore it's not an easy task to achieve the target set
on 2030" the UNAIDS representative in Sri Lanka Dr.Dayanath Ranathunge has said.