{"id":81,"date":"2008-06-16T07:52:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/education-to-fight-hivaids-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T07:28:37","slug":"education-to-fight-hivaids-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/education-to-fight-hivaids-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV and AIDS in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the HIV and AIDS in Zambia<\/strong> situation is not getting any worse it is not improving fast enough. Education is the key<\/strong> factor<\/strong> to fight the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia. A quote from Avert<\/a>, ‘as of 2005, although almost all adult Zambians know that HIV and AIDS exists, still 8.8% of the population do not know that it can be avoided. Over 25% of adults think that mosquitos can transmit HIV, 22% think they can be infected by withchraft; and 15% believe that sharing a meal with an infected person puts them at risk. The level of understanding is lower in towns, and women are less knowledgeable than men’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Butterfly Tree charity<\/a> aims to built more pre-schools in Zambia; almost half of the population is between 5 and 14 years old,\u00a0very few\u00a0have HIV\u00a0and by\u00a0educating these young Zambians at an early age the HIV and AIDS<\/a> statistics can be reduced. There is little else\u00a0to occupy\u00a0these children, living in poor rural communites,\u00a0unless they can go to school.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Mukuni
\nMukuni village pre school children<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Mukuni Village<\/a>\u00a0pre-school built by The Butterfly Tree, thanks to a generous donation by Gardiff<\/a>, who are also supporting two teachers and a classroom helper, is a huge success. Over 200 children attend three classes throughout the day, learning English and Maths skills, preparing them for the basic school at the age of five.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Children
\nChildren at Ngandu School<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

We need\u00a0donors to sponsor more pre-schools for Ngandu School<\/a> and Kamwi <\/a>and other villages supported by The Butterfly Tree. At\u00a0Mukuni and\u00a0many schools in Livingstone\u00a0we are using educational DVDS, provided by TME, to teach HIV and AIDS<\/strong> awareness, prevention\u00a0and voluntary testing. These are the childen who, by helping in the fight against HIVand AIDS in Zambia, could really make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although the HIV and AIDS in Zambia situation is not getting any worse it is not improving fast enough. Education is the key factor to fight the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia. A quote from Avert, ‘as of 2005, More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}