HIV/AIDS Program Needs Religious Leaders Support
Today.id - Religious leaders need to be actively involved in HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Their great influence can influence people's perspective on the handling of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Thus revealed from the Meeting of Religious Leaders in the Strengthening of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Program that organized by the Commission for the Prevention of AIDS (CPA) of West Java Province and Indonesia's AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), in Bandung, Monday (18/12/2017). In his speech when opening the event, Drs. H Dady Iskandar M.M, Head of Service Bureau and Social Development of West Java Provincial Secretariat said that this meeting is very important in supporting government programs handling the rate of HIV/AIDS cases in West Java. "Religious leaders can be an effective 'mouthpiece' for delivering HIV/AIDS prevention messages to the community, even down to the family level. They have many congregations, either in assemblies taklim, in church, or in their res...