{"id":3551,"date":"2009-11-24T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2009-11-24T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:21:29","slug":"blind-school-gets-braille-hivaids-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Blind School gets braille HIV\/Aids info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The communications officer for the National HIV\/AIDS Secretariat, Abu Bakarr Kargbo on Monday November, 23<sup>rd<\/sup> November 2009 disclosed that his secretariat has prepared five hundred braille copies with information about HIV\/AIDS for the Blind School.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a stakeholders meeting at NAS headquarters in Brookfield, Freetown, in preparation of lined up activities to celebrate World Aids Day, Mr. Kargbo said HIV\/AIDS education programme must target every group in society. He said even the blind people must not be excluded. &ldquo;Because they too are engaged in sexual and other activities that are vulnerable to the acquisition of the disease,&rdquo; Mr. Kargbo said, adding that this is the first time blind students are getting information about HIV\/AIDS in braille.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, an essay writing competition on HIV\/AIDS is also going to be launched for school going children. This is geared towards involving children in the HIV\/AIDS prevention campaign. The winning essays are going to be published in news letters, bulletins, calendars etc.<\/p>\n<address>by Ishmael S. Dugba &#8211; SEM<\/address>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The communications officer for the National HIV\/AIDS Secretariat, Abu Bakarr Kargbo on Monday November, 23rd November 2009 disclosed that his secretariat has prepared five hundred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,1],"tags":[1733,1556,1734],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-braille","tag-hivaids","tag-school-for-the-blind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}