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Article

25 Nov 2008

Author:
Noimot Olayiwola, Daily Newspaper [Qatar]

Private sector role urged in Aids awareness [Qatar]

A United Nations Development Programme expert on HIV/Aids has urged the private sector in the Arab region to take action against the virus…Speaking…at a Qatar Petroleum HIV/Aids workshop, UNDP Regional HIV/Aids programme co-ordinator for Arab states Dr Khadija Moalla said it is high time for the private sector to get ‘smart’ and make interventions on HIV in order to halt the spread of the disease among young adults…social and health planning adviser at the General Secretariat for Development Planning…Dr Laila Ishrair hinted that a draft law on human rights of people living with HIV… will be sent…[to] the Minister of Health…the law include[s] rights to work, to housing, to treatment as well as protection against discrimination…