Display HIV/AIDS posters in public places, bars

Akim Oda (E/R), Dec. 16, GNA - Proprietors and operators of public entertainment centres, including chop and drinking bars, are to display HIV/AIDS posters and other educational materials in their premises to help curb the spread of the deadly disease.

Mr. Eric Pinaman Asare, President of Universal United Youth Organisation (UUY), an NGO, who made the call, indicated that it was some of these centres where the issue of sexual activities were planned.

He was speaking at a two-day HIV/AIDS awareness training workshop for selected youth and vulnerable group at Nkwantanum, a suburb of Akim Oda in the Birim South District on Sunday.

The workshop was also to sensitize the youth and vulnerable groups about the need to have compassion and support people living with HIV/AIDS in their communities. Mr. Asare stressed that HIV/AIDS was real and had dire consequences for victims and urged the youth not to engage in illicit and unprotected sex.

He called on similar Non-Governmental and Community-Based Organisation in the country to help inculcate into the youth the need for abstinence in addition to the promotion of the use of condom among adults.

The President urged women to have single sex partners and also to remain faithful to them so as to make an impact on the fight against the disease. He called on the youth to educate their parents about the disease as it was seriously causing a lot of havoc on the adult population.