Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Zambia: Soccer Tournament Raises Awareness About HIV Testing





This awesome article was just written about our most recent VCT (voluntary counseling and treatment) tournament in a compound near where we live called Bauleni.  It's a really cool short article about the physical and emotional complexities of holding a VCT tournament.  The dance competition picture in this article is great too.


(Addendum: Although the testing numbers at this particular tournament in Bauleni were fairly low because this area had been saturated with HIV NGOs, we recently (Oct 15) held a tournament in an untouched area and tested nearly 1000 people with particularly high positive numbers.  Although that's really sad news, its great that this community now has the information and access to treatment it didn’t have previously.)


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