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Trinidad military get training in HIV/AIDS awareness
Thursday, February 8, 2007by Stephen Cummings
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Some 53 officers from the Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force were on Wednesday part of the first batch in a series of training programmes on HIV/AIDS Awareness involving the US military.
The training took place at the Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force Headquarters in Chaguaramas, west Trinidad.
The training was conducted by the local Society for Family Health, and focused on HIV/AIDS as a national security issue, educating troops about risky behaviour. Chief Master Sergeant Garret Edmond, who is attached to the US embassy in Port of Spain, spoke about the benefits of the exercise.
He said the objective is eventually to train every member of the local military on the effects of HIV and AIDS, especially when HIV/AIDs is considered to be most prominent in the Caribbean, being second to sub-Saharan Africa in relation to the number of cases.
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