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IOC Works with Ugandan Olympic Committee CUAHA in AIDS Prevention
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The IOC, in partnership with the Ugandan Olympic Committee and Churches United Against HIV & AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa (CUAHA), recently held a workshop promoting HIV and AIDS prevention

A hot topic of discussion was how sport can help national and international efforts to reduce the spread of the AIDS, particularly among young people.

Related to this, the release of the recently published Swahili version of the IOC-UNAIDS toolkit on HIV & AIDS prevention through sport was one of the key discussion topics.

Significantly, this is the first time a major publication of the Olympic Movement has been translated into an African language.

Participants from selected National Olympic Committees of Eastern Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania) talked with CUAHA about how this toolkit could be best used for educational purposes, especially with youth.

The two day event finished with participants producing recommendations and a pledge for future action. It is planned that a similar workshop will be held for countries of southern Africa before January 2010

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