Awutu Obrachire (C/R), Sept. 15, GNA – The Awutu-Effutu-Senya district director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Emmanuel T. Mensah, has cautioned people in the district who perceive the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a superstition syndrome, to discard such notion and learn to adopt decent sexual practices to protect themselves. Mr. Mensah was addressing an HIV/AIDS awareness rally at Awutu Obrachire in the Central Region as part of the NCCE’s special sensitisation programme on the disease.
He told members of the community, mostly farmers, that the disease is real and that anyone who joke with it would have him or herself to blame “because AIDS has no respect for anybody.”
Mr Mensah said unless all sexual-active people heed the useful advice of voluntary groups engaged in the AIDS awareness campaign seriously, the entire nation will soon be torn into a state of confusion and anarchy, judging from the rate at which the deadly pandemic is spreading in the country.
He expressed appreciation to the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Assembly and the district response initiative of HIV/AIDS for collectively sponsoring the NCCE’s campaign, which has so far covered about 20 communities in the district.
Mr Kojo Ntarmah and Mr Richard Akohoho, both field officers of the NCCE, took turns to explain to the people the devastating effects of the disease and the mode of acquisition.
They advised deceased relatives and spouses of deceased victims not to litigate over the property of deceased AIDS patients but rather come together to devise effective means of catering for their children.
Source: GhanaWeb
