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NETHERLANDS AMBASSADOR HAILS SD’S FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

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NTFONJENI – Swaziland has been hailed for playing mother-hen to migrant women and girls by availing sexual reproductive health and HIV services.


Visiting ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands based in Maputo, Pascalle Grotenhuis whose country has pumped in E20.5 million towards assisting the previously vulnerable migrants commended the country for great progress.


The funding was a partnership between International Organisation on Migration (IOM), Save the Children Netherlands and Witwatersrand School of Public Health (WSPH).


These funds supported the Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) HIV Knows no Borders project (2016-2020) implemented in Ntfonjeni and Timphisini constituency.


Realisation of migrant women and girls who find themselves forced into dangerous migration choices for their survival with limited resources in their possession prompted the implementation of the project.
Grotenhuis who visited the project site at Ntfonjeni expressed extreme excitement on the project advancement.


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The project has seen the public in these constituency accessing comprehensive sexual reproductive health (SRH) and HIV/AIDS service.
Grotenhuis said as the Kingdom of Netherlands they felt strongly about supporting vulnerable people in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.


She said they were working with migrants, adolescents and sex workers because they felt that they could really make an effort to support them.

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