35 attend AIDS workshop

Sekondi (W/R),July 9, GNA - As part of its/ HIV/AIDS campaign in the Shama Ahanta East Metropolis, the Sekondi Peer Educators Movement (SPEM) on Wednesday begun a training workshop for 35 participants to enhance its HIV/AIDS sensitisation programme. It is being organised in collaboration with the Assembly, Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) and the Regional Youth Council with funding from the Ghana AIDS Response Fund. The participants would be taken through HIV/AIDS prevention, mode of spread, symptoms, counselling techniques and contraceptive technology, among other things. Opening it, Mr. Dominic S. Arthur, Project Coordinator of SPEM said the movement have Junior Secondary School students as its main target group. It had also been organising HIV/AIDS talks and sensitisation programmes in some communities. Mr. Arthur emphasised the need for stakeholders to intensify their programmes to check the spread of the disease, which he said, had become alarming. Mr. Emmanuel Papa Assan, Western Regional Youth Coordinator, stressed the need for all youth organisations and youth serving agencies to mobilise the people to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic.