Comment on In South Africa, traditional healers join the fight against HIV. Stigma remains high in rural areas

Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s from the embedded meta tag used to generated previews in social media.

  <meta property=“og:description” content=“More than 300 traditional leaders in South Africa will be trained to do HIV tests and educate their largely rural patients about the disease.”>

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  Later this year, at least 325 other healers will undergo the training and become certified HIV counselors.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, so not a direct quote of the article. Thank you. Odd that they have different versions.

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My guess it’s their way to fight the social media trend of people only reading what embedded and not clicking on actual links.

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