Panaji: Health Minister Vishwajit Rane today announced to set up centre of excellence in HIV care by December 2019.
Minister wasspeaking as a chief guest after attending Positive Power Summit 2018 organized by Human Touch at Sanskruti Bhavan on the eve of World AIDS Day.
Rane also announced that Government will come out with new policy on HIV care and certain amount of grants from state budget will be given to various initiatives in this field to create infrastructure so that the children suffering from HIV havebetter quality of life.
“We as a policy makers need to change the narrative .We need to be more sensitive on how to take this issue forward,” he said.
Addressing the gathering Dr Jose D’Sa Project Director Goa Control aids Society informed that the theme for the 2018 observance of World AIDS Day is “Know your status”.
D’Sa said that our main goal is getting ‘zero HIV ‘, zero conversion of HIV to AIDS , zero AIDS related threats and most importantly get Zero discrimination.
” .Goa state control society is trying to achieve this goal by 2020,” he said.
