CIRCB: Women Called To Know Their Viral Status

Afew hours to the celebration of the 34th International Women’s Day, women at the International Reference Centre "Chantal Biya" for Research on the Prevention and Management of HIV/AIDS (CIRCB), have organised educative talks on the theme “knowledge, attitude, practices and perceptive to HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Viral.” While opening discussions on March 6, 2019, the Director General of CIRCB, Prof Alexis Ndjolo reiterated the importance of commemorating a day to honour women. He stated that they constitute 52 per cent of the workforce at CIRCB. Prof Alexis Ndjolo said so many activities are taking place to commemorate Women’s Day.

But CIRCB women preferred to deal with a theme that falls within their daily job of carrying out research on pertinent health issues. The moderator of the conference, Dr Sylvie Moudoura, talked about HIV, its symptoms, evolution of the disease, preventive methods and its treatment which as of now is the anti-retroviral drugs. Information revealed that some 560,000 Cameroonians are infected by HIV. Dr Moudoura stressed that HIV is real, which is contrary to what some people think as an illness linked to witchc...