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Guatemalan Community Comes Together to Provide HIV/AIDS Training to Radio Volunteers

Quetzaltenango, GUATEMALA: In honor of World AIDS day on Dec 1st, Cultural Survival's partner radio association Mujb`ab`l yol held a four-day workshop on HIV/AIDS awareness.  Over 60 Indigenous radio workers participated in the event, covering topics such as symptoms, transmission, prevention, and sensitivity, as well as radio locution, script writing, and audio recording.  A local theater group "Luces Escondidas" performed a skit, and three local organizations chipped in to pay a cost of the food and lodging.  The event concluded with the recording of public service announcements on HIV/AIDS in Spanish and Mayan languages.