March 26, 2008

Mozambique Loses Teachers to AIDS

More than a sixth of Mozambique’s 9,000 teachers die each year of HIV/AIDS, Reuters/the Montreal Gazette reports (canada.com, 3/26).

According to the article, the country’s education and culture minister Aires Aly said HIV/AIDS has become a national emergency that is affecting the southern African nation’s economic development.

“This is a crucial issue for us and we are trying to train more teachers for them to be able to deal with [HIV] in the communities, Aly said in the article. “Teachers play a major role in the economic development of this country.”

The article reports that more than 16 percent of the country’s 20 million residents between the ages of 14 and 49 are HIV positive.

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