April 17, 2008

The agency of microcredit Pla Net Finance has decided to undertake in Morocco a sanitary program directed to more than 10,000 illiterate women for the prevention of the SIDA/HIV. The interest of the agencies of microcredit by the sanitary education comes for two reasons just: first, that the 76 percent of women infected by the SIDA/HIV lives in Africa and the statistics have put in evidence that while the average rate of solution of the microcedits is in the 98 percent, this one can lower until the 68 percent in areas particularly struck by the disease.

The second reason is that most of the beneficiaries of microcredits they are women. It is not the first time that the sanitary programs of education have taken advantage of the microcédito like vehicle diffusion and approach to the population. The Finance for Trust the Self-Employed (FITSE), subsidiary of World Vision International in Malawi, has sent to the program ` Credit with Education’ that in 12 sessions teaches to the women to prevent the infection and to transmit these guidelines to its community. According to the director of the agency of microcedits PlaNet Finance, it is possible to unite the financial services to programs of training and education of the health in areas where infection SIDA/HIV is very high.

The women represent most of the beneficiaries of the microcredits and can develop to a central paper in the prevention of the diseases and the maintenance of the health of the family and whole communities. With its program in Morocco, PlaNet Finance wants to demonstrate, in addition, that it is possible to design adapted programs of microfinancing to the special exigencies of the people infected with AIDS/HIV.

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