Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Sri Lanka To Commemorate World AIDS Day With AIDS Day Walk

Tomorrow is  "World AIDS Day ".Globally World AIDS
Day will be commemorated  tomorrow  under the theme " Handsup For HIV Prevention.

Since the first AIDS Patient was detected around 88 million HIV Positives had been reported globally and around 35 million died from HIV/AIDS up to now according to the statistics.

Like in other countries Sri Lanka too commemorate  this day tomorrow with a AIDS Day walk begins from Ministry Of Health,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine in Colombo to Campball park grounds - Colombo and holding the national AIDS Day commemorative  at the grounds.

Around 2500 health officials and activists are due to participating in  this walk begins in front of the Health Ministry at 8.30 a.m tomorrow according to the National STD/AIDS Control programme.

At the national AIDS Day commemorative scheduled to he held in Campball Park tomorrow morning a national stratagic communication initiative and the  road map for the activities related to stop spreading HIV/AIDS  in Sri Lanka by the year 2025 will be launched.


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