"Take the Right Path": Zimbabwe Launches 2024-2025 World AIDS Day Theme and Logo

By Hamu Madzedze recently in Rusape

Online Health Editor-Zimbabwe

The Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Manicaland Province, Advocate Misheck Mugadza, emphasized that ending AIDS requires engaging and reaching people living with HIV and those at risk of infection.

While unveiling the World AIDS Day Campaign logo in Rusape ,Honourable Mugadza highlighted the importance of human rights in ending AIDS by 2030, promoting inclusion, and eradicating stigma.

"The theme calls on policymakers and citizens to address the inequalities that hinder progress in ending AIDS," Advocate Mugadza said.

He added that the theme's slogan, "My Health, My Rights, Our Responsibility," reflects the duty of every individual to access health services and ensure an enabling environment for others to do the same.

Image above:Advocate Misheck Mugadza,the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Manicaland Province.

Honourable Mugadza stressed the need to

prioritize children's rights and ensure they access pediatric Antiretroviral Therapy (ART).

"As a country, we face challenges with low uptake in pediatric HIV, so it is our duty to put the rights of children first," he said.

The National AIDS Council Provincial Manager for Manicaland Province, Artwell Shiridzinonwa, noted that the World AIDS Day Commemorations aim to raise HIV and AIDS awareness, promote action and commitment, and assess progress in the country's national response.

Image of this year's World AIDS Day Campaign logo

Mr Shiridzinonwa said this year's international theme, "To Take the Right Paths," was adapted to suit local needs, resulting in the national theme being "Take the Right Path, My Health, My Rights, Our Responsibility," which will run from December 1, 2024, to November 30, 2025.

He highlighted that World AIDS Day unites people across the globe in showing support for people living with HIV and to remember those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses.

This year's World AIDS Day will be held at John Cower Primary School in Rusape on Sunday, December 1, 2024.