Chinese Embassy assists the AIDS National Parade Publicity Campaign in the Gambia in December 2018

In December of 2018, the Chinese Embassy in the Gambia assisted the AIDS National Parade Publicity Campaign for World AIDS Day in Gambia. This event was organized by the Gambian First Lady's Office in December 2018, and was an AIDS prevention publicity event organized for World AIDS Day. On December 22, 2018, the closing ceremony of this project in Gambia was held. This ceremony was attended by Chinese Ambassador to the Gambia Ma Jianchun, the Gambia's First Lady Fatoumatta Bah Barrow, and the Executive Director of the National AIDS Prevention and Control Secretariat Ba Jie. During the Beijing Summit earlier in 2018, the China-Africa AIDS Prevention and Control Conference was held. At this meeting, China's three-year "China-Africa Youth AIDS Prevention and Community Health Promotion Project" through joint promotion of publicity and advocacy, health education, etc., was announced. This AIDS prevention publicity campaign is likely part of this larger China-Africa AIDS prevention campaign. The amount of funding for this project is unclear. This project is completed.

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"Fund" in the title has been changed to "assist," because after scraping through new articles, it seems that China did not play the main role. Instead, it might have funded some (according to one of the sources), but what the Embassy mainly did was promoting the event. Also, President Xi's pledge and First Lady Peng's workshop are quite broad and unspecific.

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