Religious leaders endorse new strategy to fight AIDS

KARONGI – Religious leaders in Karongi district have endorsed a new strategy to fight HIV/AIDS which includes promoting condoms. The new strategy revolves around safer practices while emphasizing access to treatment and nutrition as well as voluntary counselling and testing. According to Ignace Singirankabo, the coordinator of the Rwanda Interfaith Network against HIV/AIDS, a forum that brings together all religious groups in the fight against the AIDS, the new approach is stigma free and exemplary.