{"id":9391,"date":"2015-09-29T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T09:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2015-09-29T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T09:47:58","slug":"ahl-takes-hiv-fight-to-tobacco-growers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/09\/29\/ahl-takes-hiv-fight-to-tobacco-growers\/","title":{"rendered":"AHL takes HIV fight to tobacco growers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong>HL Group has embarked on a series of peer education training workshops aimed at sensitising tobacco growers on the dangers of HIV and Aids.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking last week in Mponela during the opening of the three-day meeting, AHL Group HIV and Aids coordinator, Leonard Chakwawa, said the company\u2019s goal is to see a reduction in new HIV infections in the tobacco industry.<\/p>\n<p>He said AHL Group values the role growers play in the tobacco industry and that this is why the company decided to take its anti-HIV and Aids campaign beyond its rank and file.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA tobacco farmer forms a limb of the tobacco industry, therefore a health farmer is equal to a healthy tobacco industry and a healthy economy,\u201d said Chakwawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a company, we invest a lot in the welfare of tobacco farmers by not just merely providing a market platform but also ensuring that the tobacco farmers brings to the market is of high quality,\u201d said Chakwawa.<\/p>\n<p>He further said AHL Group realises that peer educators can bring a positive change in the tobacco industry on issues of HIV and Aids.<\/p>\n<p>The training workshops are being conducted with a message urging growers to protect themselves from HIV and Aids so that they should spend more time in the tobacco field and produce a quality leaf that will fetch more money at auction floors.<\/p>\n<p>One of the participants, Alex Gondwe, said the training workshop would assist in changing the mindset of tobacco farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHL Group has embarked on a series of peer education training workshops aimed at sensitising tobacco growers on the dangers of HIV and Aids. Speaking last week in Mponela during the opening of the three-day meeting, AHL Group HIV and Aids coordinator, Leonard Chakwawa, said the company\u2019s goal is to see a reduction in new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}