{"id":1561,"date":"2023-12-01T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2023\/12\/01\/world-aids\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T10:45:09","slug":"world-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2023\/12\/01\/world-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"World AIDS Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231201-WA0013.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 20231201 WA0013\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px 5px 5px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231201-WA0013.jpg 1164w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231201-WA0013-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231201-WA0013-931x1024.jpg 931w, https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231201-WA0013-768x845.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">As the world commemorates the 2023 World AIDS day, which carries the theme &ldquo;Let Communities Lead&#8221;, which is a clarion call to bring the HIV\/AIDS epidemic at the forefront of communities and a time to renew our focus to community led interventions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The DTSL- Gender, Disability and Special Programmes unit, together with the departmental employees, observed the day with a prayer session and a candlelight ceremony in memory of all of those who sadly lost their lives to HIV\/AIDS. Red ribbons were given to employees as a symbol of support to those who are infected and affected, as well as to address the stigma and discrimination of those living with HIV\/AIDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The department calls for the work and concerted efforts of community organisations to be recognised towards ending the HIV\/AIDS epidemic and unite against the HIV\/ AIDS stigma and discrimination on this day and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Head of Department, Mr. Rodney Pieterse, led the commemorative ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world commemorates the 2023 World AIDS day, which carries the theme &ldquo;Let Communities Lead&#8221;, which is a clarion call to bring the HIV\/AIDS epidemic at the forefront of communities and a time to renew our focus to community led interventions. The DTSL- Gender, Disability and Special Programmes unit, together with the departmental employees,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/2023\/12\/01\/world-aids\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/dtsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}