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Intermezzo: Reducing HIV stigmatization, Sierra Leone

12 July 2008 No Comment

“In September 2007, a mobile recording studio was set up in Bo, Sierra Leone, to help the town’s musicians and HIV peer educators make an album of anti-HIV songs called ‘HIV e dae-o’ (HIV is real). Alongside the recording, a computer animation expert taught local young people techniques allowing them to create music videos for the songs.

Using these new materials, trained young Sierra Leonean peer educators will be able to spread public health messages to the region’s youth, teaching them about HIV and how to protect themselves, and helping to remove the dangerous stigma that surrounds HIV and AIDS.”

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