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By Daniel Itai.

Tanzania. (News of The South) – On Tuesday Tanzania’s government amended the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 2019’s age of consent for independently consenting to HIV/AIDS testing from 18 to 15.

The Bill was submitted to the government earlier on this year by the ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, the Elderly and Children.

This came after a research which was conducted by the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) found that over 80 percent of new HIV infections were attributed to young people aged 15 to 24 years.

Speaking after Members of Parliament had passed the amendment Bill the minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, the Elderly and Children Ummy Mwalimu said, “these amendments will significantly accelerate our intentions to meet the 90-90-90 goals which aim at ending the AIDS epidemic by 2020.”

1.4 million Tanzanians have HIV and the government wants 90 percent of the country’s population to know their status currently, only 62 percent know their status.

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