Vice President Inonge Wina is tomorrow expected in Harare, Zimbabwe to attend the 18th international conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA).
Zambia’s deputy ambassador to Zimbabwe Humphrey Mushili said the Vice President is expected to give a key note speech at the special session of the African Parliamentary and Leadership Colloquium under the theme “African Union sustaining visionary leadership towards ending AIDS in Africa by 2030.
ICASA will provide an opportunity to renew the global commitment by drawing the world’s attention to the fact that the legacy is now under threat as a result of the global economic downturn.
This year’s ICASA offers a chance for the international community, and all Africans, to join efforts in committing to achieving an AIDS-free Africa.
The conference was officially opened yesterday by Zimbabwe’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagagwa with a call to collective efforts towards the fight against HIV/AIDS if Africa is to win the fight against the pandemic.
The objectives of ICASA 2015 include in increasing African leadership and ownership, as well as investment in financing support to the continental health response and strengthened interactions between the public health, science and human right approaches in the control and elimination of the HIV/AIDS and associate diseases.
The conference also aims at Improving awareness and learning on knowledge, skills, best practices from the response to AIDS and other emergent epidemics such as (ebola, hepatitis, sras and ncd’s) and to promote the development and scaling up of evidence-based interventions for HIV/AIDS and associate diseases in the post 2015 era.
