Minister Naledi Pandor and European Union Commissioner of Research, Science and Innovation to visit local youth centre on World AIDS Day
As part of World AIDS Day, the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor and the European Union Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Carlos Moedas, will visit the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF) youth centre.
Commissioner Moedas and a high-level delegation from the EU are in South Africa to launch the second phase of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTPII) on Tuesday, 2 December. The EDCTP funds some of the clinical trials at the DTHF.
Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, Chief of Operations at the DTHF, will speak on the progress being made at the coal face of HIV in South Africa and the impact of new research on the communities most affected, particularly youth.
As their contribution to World AIDS Day 2014 the young people are circulating a video they have made titled: “AIDS is going to lose”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oumyAAg7iSw&app=desktop
The DTHF Youth Centre opened in 2011 offering development programmes to young people aged 12 – 22 in Masiphumelele and Ocean View in the Fish Hoek Valley. The holistic development approach includes a youth friendly clinic that offers sexual and reproductive health services.
Media are invited as follows:
Event: World AIDS Day commemoration
Date: Monday, 1 December 2014
Time: 15h30
Venue: Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre, Guinea Fowl Road, Sunnydale, Noordhoek
For enquiries:
Lavinia Crawford-Browne
Cell: 072 496 9849
David Mandaha
Cell: 072 126 8910
