LAMISEC Students Sensitised On HIV

MEMBERS OF Great Vision Africa (GVA), a faith-based non-governmental organisation promoting abstinence as means of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS have extended their sensitization programmes to a number of schools within the Accra metropolis.

One of such schools is the Great Lamptey-Mills Senior High School.
The school's Kasoa branch was last week taken through a sensitisation programme on HIV/AIDS involving more than 150 students and teachers.

King Trinity Senyely Akpadie, Chief Executive Officer of the organisation expressed deep concern about the rate at which the disease is spreading in the country, saying the situation could get worse if immediate steps are not taken to contain it.

He spoke on the theme, “The ABC of HIV – A Challenge to the Youth”.

He urged the students, most of whom were ladies, to choose abstinence instead of using condoms as a way of HIV/AIDS prevention, saying, abstinence remains the best option to prevent the spread of the pandemic especially among the youth and single adults.

“Adopting abstinence gives you a sense of discipline to withstand any sexual temptation that exposes you to the virus.

“Being a member of an NGO that promotes abstinence and faithfulness against the disease, I urge you all to adopt abstinence and faithfulness which remain the best form of HIV/AIDS prevention for both singles and married couples,” he emphasised.

Series of questions posed by the students were duly answered by King Akpadie and his group.

He later told HEALTH MATTERS in an interview that GVA would not relent in its efforts to spread the message of abstinence for the youth who he said were the country's future leaders.

GVA, he added, would organise similar seminars in youth-dominated environments such as second cycle and tertiary institutions across the country until its message of abstinence and faithfulness gained root in the Ghanaian society.