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HIV, Stigma & discrimination widespread in Sierra Leone

By Kemo Cham

Despite the existence of a law prohibiting stigmatisation and discrimination of people living with HIV, the practice is at an alarming rate, anti-HIV/AIDS campaigners have warned.

Stigmatization is prevalent at all levels of society and it is driving people who should seek life-saving help, like HIV/AIDS sufferers, to go into hiding, posing further threats to society, officials of the National AIDS Secretariat (NAS) and UNAIDS, said.

Supplement: Mercury Unveils Bumper Jackpot

By Mustapha Kamara Junior

Mercury International, Sierra Leone’s leading sports-betting and lottery company, yesterday held the first draw of its bumper jackpot at its Siaka Stevens Street office in Freetown.

It comes days after the company unveiled the new lottery game for its customers.

The new 4/50 Jackpot game was officially launched by Kerry Dunkley, the company’s Lottery Manager, at the Family Kingdom Resort at Aberdeen, in the west of Freetown.

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