27 February 2015
The
Western Cape Department of Health has signed a Memorandum of Understanding in
decreasing new HIV infections by 50 percent by 2016.
MEC
of Health Nomafrench Mbombo said in a statement that this agreement is an
example of the importance of public-private partnership.
Ministerial
Spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube said what these partners will be doing is that they’ll
be working a network of private practitioners training them to administer
medical male circumcision and HIV counselling services.
Gwarube
said this is the very first initiative of its kind in South Africa and we
believe it will go a long way to achieve our goals of decreasing new HIV infections.
“The
Western Cape government will be providing operational support like consumables
such as the circumcision tax and the HIV tests” Gwarube added.
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