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Powerful educational programme steers youth towards healthier sexual behaviour |24 March 2017

 

Safer Sex Week, observed from March 27 to April 1, 2017 under the theme “Safe Sex, My Responsibility”, will be marked with a week-long campaign organised by the Aids Prevention and Control Programme at the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National HIV and Aids Social and Behavioural Change Committee (SBCC).

The campaign will promote healthy sexual choices among the public while targeting key areas of the population, i.e. young people. In line with this, a mass sensitisation programme on Safer Sex Practices will be conducted in secondary and post-secondary institutions across Mahé.

Two secondary institutions who will benefit from these sessions are the English River and Plaisance secondary schools.

Students aged between 15 and 17 years old will acquire life skills and information they require to make informed decisions and protect themselves from HIV and STI (sexually transmitted infections).

Key messages disseminated throughout these sessions as well as the entire campaign will be the practice of safer sex as a particularly important step in reducing associated risk and vulnerability to HIV and STIs.

“We appreciate all the efforts put into the education of the public on Safer Sex practices but we need to take the work further than that and successfully strengthen and implement the right safer Sex practice strategies,” says Lyn Arissol, health promotion officer at the Aids Prevention and Control Programme.

The sessions will also feature discussions on effective use of condoms, abstinence, being faithful, reduction of sexual partners and preventing use of drugs among adolescent.

This year’s theme operates in accordance with the campaign ‘My Health, My Responsibility’ employed by the ministry urging everyone to be more active and be more accountable for their health.

 

Programme of Events

 

DATE

 

ACTIVITY

 

Time

 

Venue

 

Responsible

 

Friday

March 23

 

Launching of the Safer Sex week Campaign on Bonzour Sesel

 

7am

 

SBC Head Office Hermitage

 

AIDS prevention and Control programme and SBCC Committee

Tuesday

March 28

Sensitisation session with Seychelles Institute Agriculture & Horticulture Students

1pm

Anse à la Mouche premises from 1pm

Aids prevention and Control programme

Thursday

March 23

Validation Workshop on of the Draft Operational Plan for Female Sex Workers in Seychelles

8.30am-1pm

Eden Bleu

Aids prevention and Control programme

Wednesday March 29

Sensitisation session English River Secondary Students

11am

English River School

Aids prevention and Control programme

Wednesday March 29

Sensitisation session with a group of Plaisance Secondary Students

2pm

Plaisance Secondary school

Aids prevention and Control programme

Thursday

March 30

Sensitisation session with a group of English River Secondary Students

1pm

English River Secondary school

Aids prevention and Control programme

Friday

March 24

Health Matters Article on Safer Sex Practice

Aids prevention and Control programme

Saturday

April 1

Mass distribution of condoms and leaflets

10 am

Town

SBCC Committee

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

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