Ghana: Universities to train teachers and youth leaders in AIDS awareness

Thousands of trainee teachers and youth leaders in Ghana are to receive HIV/AIDS awareness and sensitisation training as part of a Canadian-backed initiative to tackle stigma surrounding the disease, the director of the project said. "HIV/AIDS is increasingly becoming a problem in our country but we hardly talk about sex in our communities. This course aims at prevention and creating the requisite knowledge about the condition by efforts to remove the stigma associated with it," project director Reuben Aggor told IRIN at the weekend.