Belgium Sellers, a major Petty Traders Association, in the Capital City of Freetown have secured education on \u2018Living with HIV\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 in a one day HIV & AIDs workshop organised by The Business Coalition Against AIDS in SL, sponsored by TOTAL SL Limited.\u00a0 Having recognized the Associations valued\u00a0 role in promoting indigenous business in Sierra Leone, major HIV partners around the country in a bid to enhance HIV\/AIDS awareness amongst the traders, stormed the Lightfoot Boston\/Pultney Street\u00a0 premises \u00a0hosting over 400 members of the Association, to bring HIV \/AIDS education to their doorstep.<\/p>\n
Event witnessed various stakeholders, including the sponsor TOTAL Sierra Leone limited, BCASSL, UNAIDS,\u00a0 Standard Chartered Bank and Sierra Leone Red Cross delivering valued statements regarding the importance of HIV\/AIDS awareness and their contribution in complementing the government\u2019s effort in the fight against AIDS in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
The ceremony climaxed with a \u2018Living with HIV\u2019 education by the HIV Champions of the Standard Chartered Bank. Morie Fofana, Lead Country HIV Champion and Head of Human Resource Standard Chartered Bank In his remarks to introduce the educative session\u00a0 said, \u201cThrough our active community Partnership programme \u2018Living with HIV\u2019<\/strong> initiative, \u00a0Standard Chartered aims to create the awareness that one can survive the disease, if one\u2019s status is detected at an early stage and \u2018Live With HIV\u2019 successfully. We have educated over 1 million people around the world on our \u2018Living with HIV\u2019 education programme which has gained considerable momentum in the markets where we operate in Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Over 25,000 people have been educated in Sierra Leone\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n The ceremony was chaired by Ayodele Wak-Williams, Member of the Board of Directors, Business Coalition Against AIDS in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Belgium Sellers, a major Petty Traders Association, in the Capital City of Freetown have secured education on \u2018Living with HIV\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 in a one day HIV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,673,1],"tags":[10422,10423,10424],"class_list":["post-30993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-belgium-sellers","tag-living-with-hiv","tag-petty-traders-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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