In a bid to maintain a healthy workforce, the ministry of Public Service and Labour (MIFOTRA) has embarked on a nationwide sensitisation campaign to fight against HIV/AIDS within the public sector. Speaking to The New Times, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Samuel Mulindwa, said that the countrywide awareness campaign is designed to raise awareness. “Our main target is to make sure that, workers in the public sector know about the causes and the consequences of the virus so that they can protect themselves when still early,” he said. “Educating the workers in the sector about the scourge and how to avoid it will significantly reduce the spread of the HIV/AIDS” “There is a very good work going on in several districts countrywide and workers are being sensitized on how to work with fellow colleagues who are HIV positive without discriminating them” Mulindwa explained. “We are calling upon all the workers in the public sector to voluntary test for the HIV/AIDS,” adding that they need to spread the information and reduce the scourge” MIFOTRA is partnering with UNICEF (The United Nations International Children’s Fund) and CNLS (National Centre for the fight against HIV) to fight against HIV/AIDS in the public sector. Ends
