New Abirem, July 2, GNA – The Birim North District Chief Executive, Mr Napoleon Amoako Asiamah, has commended the Japanese International Corporation Agency (JICA) for supporting the district in its developmental agenda.
Mr Asiamah said after JICA successfully implemented its first project, the Integrated Project (IP), which involved school health, outreach clinics and environmental activities it also gave the district the rural health improvement programme.
He said this at New Abirem in the Eastern Region during a programme organised by the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) in collaboration with JICA, the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Ghana Education Service (GES) supported by Sony Corporation of Japan as part of efforts to create awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention.
Mr Asiamah said under the programme JICA selected 20 communities and together with the PPAG, introduced income generating activities, micro financing, family planning and also came up with the HIV/AIDS Prevention through Education (HAPE) project.
The Chief JICA Representative in Ghana Mr Kunihro Yamauchi said the HAPE project was targeted at young people and aimed at equipping them with knowledge and skills to motivate them to make informed decisions.
He said HAPE would equip the youth with or without HIV to lead healthy live styles.
The project's biggest challenge, he lamented was people's negative attitude towards HIV, which kept preventing them from understanding the virus well.
Mr Kunihro, therefore, urged them to open their minds to learn about the mode of transmissions.
A senior producer of SONY, Mr Tsukasa Yoshimura, said the collaboration with JICA was aimed at sensitizing the youth on the HIV/AIDS pandemic which was vital in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Mr Yoshimura revealed that under the project, SONY's latest high resolution projection system would be sent to HAPE project sites and public viewing events conducted which would in turn enhance the HAPE HIV/AIDS education project.
GNA
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