Peer educators attend workshop on HIV/AIDS

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.