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AIDS In Africa - Zimbabwe Receiving UN Help
October 1st, 2007
The UN help is actually the secondary story. In 2005 Zimbabwe became the first country in southern Africa to record a decline in HIV, with the adult rate falling to approximately 20 per cent today“, according to AllAfrica.com.
This is more great news to go along with what’s been going on in Uganda for 15 years.
To bolster their improving fight against AIDS, the UN is providing money for AIDS education for young people:
“Almost 500,000 school children in Zimbabwe are expected to benefit from a United Nations-backed initiative to train 1,500 primary and secondary school teachers in new and practical ways to help stall the spread of HIV and AIDS…
Teachers will then be able to share vital information with the children so they can protect themselves against infection and continue Zimbabwe’s successes in reducing the national HIV rate.”
As I pointed out in the Uganda piece, education and prevention is the most important thing in this fight. And again, an African country is showing the world how to do it.
The AllAfrica story is here: allafrica.com/stories/200708280840.html
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My image of Zimbabwe is that it is Africa’s Burma. Having said that, I think you would probably advise me to “get out more often”?
Well this isn’t a comprehensive praise of Zimbabwe, but of the particular aspect this post (and the “AIDS In Africa” series) is highlighting.
People always hear all the bad about Africa, but there are positive things occuring there too that should be publicized.