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AIDS education not reaching booming Yei fast enough

It's the middle of the afternoon and a group of teenagers are playing cards in a homestead in the town of Yei, southern Sudan. The girls are heavily made up and the boys sport cowboy hats and basketball vests. You can smell the cigarettes and vodka they are passing around, and there are hormones in the air.

29 Aug 2007

They are all school-age teens, but only one says he attends school regularly. "We just like to come here and relax in the afternoons; we don't have anything else to do," said Samuel Deng, 19, who still in primary school.

The long-running north-south civil war, and the more recent presence of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has kept many Southern Sudanese children out of school.

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