Angola: Conference on HIV/Aids Starts Today

A two-day conference on HIV/Aids and human rights will be opened this Thursday, in Luanda, organised by the Justice, Peace and Democracy Association (AJPD).

The event, which will take place in the facilities of the Angolan Catholic University (UCAN), is the third of the kind promoted by AJPD in the framework of the project of Advocacy of Rights of HIV Infected People.

The meeting aims at publicly discussing the role of leadership and promoting a greater involvement of the civil society in the promotion and defence of the rights of HIV infected people, encouraging and showing the path so that the infected resort more frequently to legal procedures for their protection.
With the motto "United in the Fight against Stigma and Discrimination", the meeting is also to share the experiences of other countries, such as that of Brazil, concerning the participation of HIV positive people in the struggle against discrimination and stigmatization.

AJPD, in the light of its project of advocacy of rights of HIV infected people, holds similar activity countrywide. Founded in August 2000, AJPD's main social scope is the defence and promotion of human rights, values of democracy, peace and social justice.