Call for SADC HIV regional committee

Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum officials, meeting on November 24 in the southern Angola city Ondjiva, Cunene Province, have recommended the creation of a regional committee to tackle HIV/AIDS in that country and Namibia.

This was manifested in a ceremony that served to balance the five-day work carried out in Cunene and in the neighboring Namibia, by the SADC parliamentarians, aimed at checking the epidemiological situation, in terms of HIV/AIDS, in the two countries, reports the Angola Press Agency.

Speaking to the local press, the head of the SADC parliamentary team, Helder de Albuquerque, stressed that such a measure will bring about better results in the fight against HIV/Aids, mainly at the Angola/Namibia border regions. Namibian parliamentarian Moses Amweelo praised the idea of creating a regional committee, adding that, in so doing, this will strengthen the joint activities in the fight against the diseases that are more frequently recorded at the common border.