2024-04-10 12:35:00
It is a ritual normally observed every December 1, on the occasion of World AIDS Day. But Fight Aids Monaco affiliates made an exception this Tuesday, by deploying a quilt in their premises under the eyes of Winnie Byanyima.
Visiting the Principality for two days, the executive director of the joint United Nations program on AIDS (UNAIDS) spent a long time in the association’s facilities. Guided by the president, Princess Stéphanie who twenty years ago gave the impetus to Fight Aids Monaco to prevent the dangers of the disease, curb contamination and support women and men living with HIV.
For several years, the deployment of quilts – large embroidered canvases bearing the memory of affiliates and friends lost to the disease – has acted as a reminder that the epidemic has not been stopped and that AIDS is still an evil to be feared. A message relayed by Princess Stéphanie, UNAIDS goodwill ambassador since 2006.
Alongside Princess Stéphanie, Ugandan Winnie Byanyima discovered the actions of the Fight Aids Monaco association. Photo Frédéric Nebinger/Princely Palace.
The sovereign received Winnie Byanyima in a private audience at the Prince’s Palace.
What is done in the Principality
Earlier in the day on Tuesday, Winnie Byanyima spoke with Prince Albert II, during a solemn audience to recall the missions of UNAIDS, whose objective is to put an end to the epidemic in the horizon 2030. An enterprise in which the Principality intends to provide its support. As recalled by Isabelle Berro-Amadei, government advisor-Minister of External Relations and Cooperation, by welcoming the executive director to a working meeting at government headquarters.
The purpose of this meeting was both to discuss current issues related to the fight once morest AIDS, but also to present Monaco’s national and international policy in this area. Like the partnerships forged by the Department of External Relations to encourage the UNAIDS strategy called: “End inequality, end AIDS”.
For his part, the government advisor-Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Christophe Robino, highlighted the results of the national AIDS policy, displaying control over the incidence rate observed in the resident population.
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