Children cried out to governments to step up the fight against HIV AIDS in South Sudan to save them from sufferings due the deadly virus during yesterday’s Aids Day celebration.
School children from Torit, Eastern Equatoria, presented their case through poems, drama and music that touched the hearts of top government officials and Members of the State Legislative Assembly, Radio Emmanuel reported.A pupil from Christ Bright Academy was among many who offered heart-touching poems, calling for people to test and know their status to avoid endangering lives.
The poet called HIV AIDS a merciless creature that does not care about orphans and women, saying that the feared disease is killing the people of the new nation due to rising cases of immorality.
The chairperson of health, gender, youth and HIV AIDS committee in Eastern Equatoria Assembly, Agnes Lox, promised to move a motion asking constitutional post holders to take compulsory tests to know their status.
Torit County Commissioner Felix Otuduha Siro blamed the increasing rates of HIV infections in South Sudan to open borders.
He called for measures to control visitors who carry the HIV virus from entering South Sudan.