Mozambique police get Aids boost

The deputy president says the health sector cannot fight the pandemic alone

The Mozambican national police service (PRM) has received a boost of about $33 000 to help combat the spread of HIV/Aids among its members, state media reported today.

Radio Mozambique said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently donated the amount to the police to train activists and to care for police officers living with the virus.

Badrudine Ibraimo, the co-ordinator for HIV/Aids combating programmes in PRM, told the station that a group of police officers would soon visit Uganda on a mission to study how that country had managed the pandemic. Mozambique has an HIV/Aids infection rate of more than 16% among its adult population. - Sapa