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This week INCEF launched the second HIV/AIDS education mission in our continuing collaboration with UNICEF/Congo.  Three teams of educators will spend the next three weeks using films and discussion sessions to teach schoolchildren and villagers about HIV/AIDS.  Specifically, INCEF educators will show five films focusing on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, social stigmatization and alienation.

Each team will educate in and around four UNICEF-rehabilitated primary schools.  Ella Bamona and Eric Kalla will work in Pointe Noire, the Republic of Congo's second largest city and the site of its oil industry.  Armel Kinzonzi and Saturnin Olambo will work near Ouesso in northern Congo.  And Eric Kinzonzi and our two new trainees will work in Pool District.

This project is being carried out in connection with UNICEF/Congo under a grant from the Japanese government.  The HIV/AIDS films were produced by Global Dialogues Trust for a DynaEnterprises Senegalaise/Chemonics/USAID project.  INCEF dubbed these films into the local Lingala and Kitouba languages for use in Congo.

The first HIV/AIDS education mission, conducted from November to December 2010, reached more than 8,700 people in 22 villages.  You can read the full report here. We hope to continue this work with UNICEF throughout 2011. It is a great example of on the ground work to meet the 6th Millennium Development Goal of stopping and reversing the spread of HIV / AIDS.

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