13 May 2008
Luanda — Twenty workers, most of whom female staff from the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion (Minfamu), were upgraded last April 21-25, in Luanda, as peer educators at their workplace, to carry out preventive campaigns on HIV/Aids and other diseases.
A note from the Ministry of Family, which was sent to ANGOP, states that it was a five-day training aimed at empowering the workers on knowledge about HIV/Aids and other diseases.
The document says that the course was run by employees of the mentioned governmental department and the provincial health department of Luanda, in the ambit of the sub-project dubbed "Kuanesa".
"Kuanesa" sub-project is funded by the Hamset Project of the Angolan Health Ministry and is meant at distributing and sharing information on HIV-AIDS and other diseases with workmates or relatives.
The twenty participants brushed up their knowledge concerning the "peer educator profile" and "Promotion of health and the importance of communication".
Topics like "Transmission and Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV-AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis", "aspects linked to stigma and discrimination", as well as "the Law on Aids", were also under discussion, according to the note.
Among the objectives of the project, comprises the change of behaviour to favour measures of preventing and reducing the probability of the diseases transmission, fight discrimination, as well as the stigmatisation of people with HIV-Aids and tuberculoses at the workplace.
The Hamset project is partner of the Angolan government in the process of encouraging behaviours that favour the promotion of health at workplace, through the programme of peer educators.
The course, which will be extensive to employees of the sector in other provinces, is the first one of the kind and was run by technicians of the Ministry of Health linked to the subject.
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