Angolan Official Says HIV/AIDS Thwarts Literacy Efforts
Angola’s deputy minister of Education for Educative Reform, Pinda Simão, has said that HIV/AIDS is hindering the country’s efforts to tackle illiteracy, the Angola Press Agency/AllAfrica.com reports (allafrica.com, 4/22).
Simão said this at a meeting on April 22 in the capital city of Luanda during International Week on Education for All.
Simão said that many teachers who’d attended training programs to help erase the problem of illiteracy had died of AIDS, resulting in delays to the country’s education process.
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
