Mozambique: 17 percent of teachers HIV positive

About 17 percent of Mozambique's teachers are HIV positive, considerably higher than the national average of 13 percent HIV prevalence among people aged between 15 and 49, declared Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi in Maputo on Monday. Speaking at the opening of a seminar on education and AIDS in Maputo, Mocumbi said that this will lead to the death of 1.6 percent per year of the country's teachers.