2008 Press Releases
HIV Poster Contest Winners Announced (June 5, 2008)
On June 19, U.S. Ambassador Robert J. Dieter will host twenty-one student winners of the 2008 HIV Poster Competition at the U.S. Embassy in Belmopan. The poster competition, managed by the Ministry of Education Health and Family Life Education Unit and funded by the U.S. Ambassador’s HIV Prevention Program, offers an opportunity for primary school students in Standards IV, V and VI around the country to create artwork on stigma and discrimination against persons living with HIV and AIDS.
Twenty-one winning posters represent the first, second and third place winners in each of the six districts and the cayes. Ambassador Dieter will present the students with cash prizes as well as with other educational material.
The purpose of the project is to encourage student participation and to thus increase the knowledge and awareness of HIV and AIDS among primary and secondary students, their parents and the public at large. To accomplish this, the top seven posters will be professionally photographed and used to produce book covers for school textbooks for the new upcoming school year. In addition, the photographs will also be used to create calendars for nationwide distribution for World AIDS Day on December 1, 2008.
All media houses are cordially invited to attend the Award Ceremony at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday June 19, 2008 at the U.S. Embassy in Belmopan. If you are interested in attending, please contact Denise Nisbet at tel: 822-4011 ext. 4370 or at e-mail: nisbetdl@state.gov.