Día de Solidaridad de Personas con VIHsida
In solidarity of those with HIVaids I held my first ever pool tournament.
In Nicaragua over 6,900 people are HIV+, and those are just the people who have recieved the blood test. Over 7% of men are HIV+.
Nicaragua is the size of NY.
That means there are a lot of people in this country with HIVaids. We project that this number will not be decreasing any time soon. There are no national or regional hotlines focusing on HIVaids. Condoms are not necessarily easy to come by. And, the test which is meant to be anonymous it hardly that.
So, with the help of four other volunteers in my department, I held the first ever pool tournament in Jinotega to spread the word. We organized a tournament including 16 men (with over 90 observers), prizes and mini-classes between each round. We taught them about what HIVaids is, how it spreads, how it doesn´t spread and prevention techniques.
Woah, does that mean that 93% of HIVAIDS cases in Nicaragua are in women? That's INSANE!
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