AFRYDEF to mobilize 1 million signatures in support of a Bill!
On May 17, 2009, AFRYDEF kicked off a campaign aimed at proposing a Bill to be signed into Law for the Imo State Government to restrain all Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) and all Health workers at the Primary Health Centers from attending to pregnant women in the rural communities without HIV/AIDS screening results from approved Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centers.
We, in AFRYDEF are determined to sponsor this Bill to its logical conclusion, having been convinced that, when signed into law, it would become an instrument for saving the lives of Imo people who would have contracted the virus through and during child delivery by these traditional birth attendants and health workers.... Learn More |
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