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Ghana: Efforts to Establish HIV/Aids Clubs in Schools Underway
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Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
2 May 2008
Posted to the web 2 May 2008
Edmond Gyebi
Tamale
A two-day capacity workshop, organized by the Social Change Advocacy Network (SCAN), with support from Ibis Ghana, has ended in Tamale. The objective of the workshop was to provide justification, for joint action and support to the establishment of HIV/AIDS clubs in basic schools, and to increase awareness on how HIV/AIDS impacts on education.
Participants were taken through topics, including Sexual Reproductive Health; Gender and HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS and Human rights; and Management of HIV/AIDS clubs.
In a welcome address, the Coordinator of SCAN, Mahamud Sule, called for the support of all to fight HIV/AIDS.
He said the disease had moved from a health issue, to developmental, and called on teachers, who were role models, to reflect this in their day-to-day activities.
Mr. Sule expressed the need for the nation, to attach more attention to the upbringing of the children, who were the future leaders.
The Course Prefect, Dominic Dinka, said HIV/AIDS was undermining the socio-economic development of this nation, and called for fast-track measures to check the pandemic.
In a related development, the Tamale Metropolitan Directorate, of the Ghana Education Service (GES), also organised a day's training workshop, on HIV alert module, for all the 84 Junior High schools in the Tamale Metropolis.
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About 336 students and 84 teachers participated in the training workshop.
Topics discussed, included Reproductive Organs; Facts on HIV/AIDS; Assertiveness, Values, and Attitude on HIV/AIDS.
Some of the facilitators included Mr. Charles Manglamba, Deputy Director In-charge of Supervision, and Madam Comfort Bukari, School Health Programme Officer, all from the Metro Education Directorate.
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