{"id":6557,"date":"2013-07-15T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/jonathan-seeks-local-solutions-to-hivaids-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2013-07-15T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T16:27:03","slug":"jonathan-seeks-local-solutions-to-hivaids-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/jonathan-seeks-local-solutions-to-hivaids-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan seeks local solutions to HIV\/AIDS in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday urged African leaders to look inwards and develop local solutions to tackle HIV\/AIDs and other infectious diseases on the continent.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the opening ceremony of the Abuja+12 African Union (AU) Special Summit on HIV\/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Abuja, he noted that the diseases have remained major causes of morbidity and mortality in Africa and posing serious challenges to sustainable socio-economic development.<\/p>\n

Stressing that the human, societal and financial costs of inadequate action or no action at all will be too grievous to contemplate, he said that the time is ripe for a final and concerted solution to the diseases.<\/p>\n

According to him, African leaders must set clear and decisive goals, identify and implement the best adaptable strategies for best and quickest results.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI strongly advocate that Africa should look inwards in search for solutions. We must begin to de-emphasis reliance on external funding and importation of essential medicines required for our treatment programmes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must stand in solidarity with one another, be proactive to our health challenges and increase inter-continental scientific research partnerships and development efforts to complement the various national and regional plans already underway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOwnership and sustainability should form the basis of our next plan of actions. Our goal should be to find local solutions to our challenges, translate planning into implementation, and develop our continent at the pace we desire,\u201d the president stated<\/p>\n

While stating that greater fundings would be required to achieve the objectives, he called for increased synergy between government and other stakeholders in order to reduce duplication of efforts and resource wastage.<\/p>\n

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