At the end of October, the Community Based Rehabilitation team started training community health workers about the best way they can educate the community on issues of HIV/AIDS. Spreading the right information about how the virus is contracted, spread and treated, is vital in communities where misinformation and prejudice is rife.

During this same meeting 50 of the health workers decided to get tested for the virus and to find out their status too. They were able to experience firsthand what it is like to be counseled, tested and told the results in a respectful and dignified way. Now they are ready to spread the word to the rest of the community about what they should expect when they come to get tested at Kamanga Health Centre.

And across the school fields, football coaches were doing a similar thing, informing young people about how HIV/AIDS can be contracted, spread and treated. Cedar Tanzania, in partnership with TackleAfrica, continues to use football drills to educate young people about this disease. We are spreading the message and slowly but surely breaking down misinformation, stereotypes and prejudice.