Nkawkaw, Feb 4, GNA – Thirty Peer educators on HIV and
AIDS drawn from the Kwahu West Municipality on Friday ended a
two-day workshop on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), at
Nkawkaw.
The workshop, which was organized by Tinacom Foundation
and Precious Life, both non-governmental organizations, aimed at
equipping the participants with the knowledge and skills for them to
intensify education on the transmission of the diseases in the
municipality. They were taken through topics like basic facts about HIV and
AIDS and STDs, discrimination, record keeping, up-to-date records
on the two diseases in the municipality and how to train others in the
communities for them to disseminate messages on the diseases. It was sponsored by Ghana AIDS Commission and supported
by Kwahu West Municipal Assembly.
Addressing the participants, the Chief Executive Officer of the
Tinacom Foundation, Mr Edward Asiedu-Mensah, advised the
participants to take the knowledge acquired seriously and implement
them in the communities to reduce the spread of the disease in the
municipality. Mr Joe Appiah also of Precious Life urged the participants to
educate the youth and school children to abstain from pre-marital
sex and to take precautions to avoid the spread of the disease in the
area.
Source: GhanaWeb
