Ketu community leaders formulate plans to remove inimical customs

Denu (VR), Oct. 15, GNA - A day's workshop to dialogue with grassroots opinion leaders on how to effectively remove customary practices inimical to the reproductive health of women in the Ketu District has been held at Denu in the Ketu District.

The Ketu District has the highest HIV infection rate in the Volta Region.

Participants including, Assembly members and Queen mothers discussed how to identify the inability of young women to reject early sex and male dominance in sex matters.

Miss Eugenia Obodai, President of Pro-Link, an Aflao based NGO, organisers of the workshop, observed that the inability of parents to feed, accommodate and clothe their children often made the girls yield to demands for sex from men.

She said the situation had exposed many girls to early pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and criminal abortions through crude methods.

An HIV carrier at the workshop dispelled the notion that contracting the HIV virus was a distant possibility, saying everybody was at risk.