Some 44 church leaders in the Central African Republic (CAR) completed last Thursday a four-day training course on HIV/AIDS awareness, organised by the Ecumenical Initiative on HIV in Africa and a local NGO. A member of the Ecumenical Initiative, Rosalie Koudougueret-Malogba, told IRIN that the church leaders, representing 15 religious institutions, were trained on the different means of HIV/AIDS infection as well as means of protection against the scourge.