The International HIV and AIDS Alliance in collaboration with UNESCO trained members of civil society on entertainment education in Juba to fight the scourge.
Florence Bayoa is the Country Director for International HIV and AIDS Alliance. She told reporters this afternoon in Juba that entertainment education was important to communicate information about HIV and AIDS to the low literacy communities in south Sudan.Ms. Bayoa said the entertainment included dramas, sketches and songs.
She added that it was the best way to pass information on AIDS through a very simple, understandable and interactive way to people who did not have access to radio and TV and did not know how to read.
The 35 participant came from the implementing partners of the International HIV and AIDS Alliance in Juba, Kajo-Keji, Lainya, Torit and Magwi counties.