As Rwanda joins the international community in commemorating the World AIDS Day, the First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame affirms that joint efforts to eradicate the disease can bear positive outcomes and eradicate the AIDS not later than 2030.
Jeannette Kagame has pioneered in fighting against the AIDS since 2001 when she co-created a platform to fight against the AIDS called PACFA.
Through this platform, she chaired a international conference on the fifth against the AIDS.
The conference took place on 2001 and was followed by the creation of an organization of African First Ladies against the HIV/AIDS.
She led the organization from 2004 to 2006.
Through Twitter Jeannette Kagame reminded the general public that the AIDS remains a threat to fight against and eradicate not later than 2030.
She twitted that this can be achieved through combining efforts from various stakeholders.
Her efforts and other First Ladies have produced tangible efforts as contaminated mothers who infected their newborns declined in number.
In 2010, the First Lady Jeannette Kagame was awarded by the Oklahoma Christian University for her contribution in declining the number of the AIDS infected mothers in Africa in general and Rwanda
She is part of the Managing Committee of the Global Coalition of Women against HIV/AIDS.
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