NGO intensifies campaign on AIDS

Boame Nkwanta, (C/R) July 8 GNA - Helping Rural Women Entrepreneurs (HERUWE) Ghana, an NGO, has intensified its education on the causes and spread of HIV/AIDS in Asikuma-Odoben Brakwa District.

In an address at a day's durbar at Boame Nkwanta community on Monday, the Executive Director of HERUWE, Miss Dinah Ahuren said that to avoid the spread of HIV/AIDS, people must make the right choice of sexual practices and attitudes.

Miss Ahuren said that from statistics, more women get infected of HIV/AIDS because they do not have the power to negotiate for safe sex control over their sexual relations. She said it is accepted that men have multiple sexual partners, so men, who are HIV positive could infect several women because men's promiscuity is accepted and women exercise little control over sexual practices.

Miss Diana Appiah Training Officer/Field Supervisor of Pro-Link, NGO at Mankessim in her address said that the next sources of HIV/AIDS infection include blood transfusion, the use of body-piercing instruments like needles, blades and scissors. She advised the people to express compassion and love for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Mr. Christian Mensah the former secretary for the Breman Asikuma Traditional Council, who chaired the function thanked HERUWE for her programme and appealed to the people to spread information about the programme to people in remote communities. Film show on causes and spread of the HIV/AIDS followed the addresses.

Other places visited included Breman Benin and Ochisoa.