World Banks supports anti-AIDS campaign

Ivorian primary schools teachers, represented by the Syndicat national de
l'enseignement primaire public de Cote d'Ivoire (SNEPPCI), will receive some
US $293,000 from the World Bank for its anti-AIDS campaign, the state-owned
daily 'Fraternite Matin' reported on Wednesday.

The contribution, of which US $55,000 is from the Ivorian government, would
fund information and prevention programmes and pay for support structures
for teachers infected with the virus, as well as for their wives and
children.

Since 1998, a growing number of primary and secondary school teachers have
contracted the virus that leads to AIDS which, according to a local medical
study, kills up to eight teachers each week, the newspaper reported.