Launch in Rabat of the National Strategy on Human Rights and HIV/AIDS

72% of Moroccans are unaware that they are carriers of AIDS and 6,500 are under antiretroviral (ARV) treatment after having reached 4,047 in 2011, an increase of 60%. These results, which remain, however, minimal, were announced, on Monday in Rabat, during the launch of the national strategy on human rights and HIV/AIDS. As its name suggests, this programme which is part of the national strategic plan for the fight against AIDS, already put in place in 2012 to run until 2016, is marked by the addition of the legal and human dimension that the CNDH asserts by virtue of a partnership signed the same day with the Ministry of Health and the UNAIDS programme in Morocco. For the president of the Council, Driss El Yazami, who welcomed this partnership, "Morocco is considered the only country in the MENA region to develop such a strategy with a rights-based approach". The collaboration between…