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New anti-AIDS strategy underway

    JOHANNESBURG

    Some 400,000 Ethiopians are to benefit from an anti-AIDS programme that has successfully been applied in Germany and other European countries, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported on Thursday.

    With assistance from the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the Addis Ababa City Administration said the "Move" strategy would aim to improve HIV/AIDS education in schools and communities.

    The mayor of Addis Ababa, Arkebe Equbay, said he was hopeful that the proposed project could bring about a "rapid and tangible behavioural change among the youth".

    Research suggests that Addis Ababa has the highest concentration of people living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.

    The GZT project coordinator, Dr Peter Herzig, expressed the organisation's full technical support for the implementation of the strategy.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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