Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
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| Alphonsus Stoelinga, Netherlands Ambassador to India |
We are all very familiar with the phrase ‘going Dutch’ (meaning each person of a group pays one's own expenses in an outing), but are we also aware of dealing with HIV/AIDS the Dutch way? Perhaps very few of us know that "Amsterdam, which is currently hosting the
22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) from 23-27th July 2018 -
the largest conference for any global health issue in the world - became the first city in the world to
overshoot the 90:90:90 target, set by UNAIDS (
joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS), in 2017 itself with a continuum progress of 94:90:94,” said
Alphonsus Stoelinga, Netherlands Ambassador to India, in an exclusive interview given to CNS (Citizen News Service) on the eve of AIDS 2018.
Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, nurses have been at the forefront of the response to this once fatal infection. The nurse is involved at every stage of the trajectory of a person living with HIV—from usually being the first to counsel the newly diagnosed person, to one of the last to be with him/her at the point of death.
