April 24, 2008

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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