2 July 2008
Luanda — The executive secretary of the Angolan Network of AIDS Service Organisations (ANASO), António Coelho, on Wednesday here said there has been a poor participation of young people in activities centred on the combat against HIV, as well as a low turn up for voluntary testing.
Speaking to ANGOP on "How the youths view the HIV/Aids and other sexually transmitted infections (ITS)", António Coelho stated that despite being a very vulnerable group and having more and more access to the information, they still resist accepting the problem.
According to him, such an attitude results from the non acceptance to joining the prevention procedures and changing of behaviour in face of an epidemics that spreads countrywide.
Studies conducted by ANASO, mainly on the dissemination of condoms as preventive method, show that 70 percent of the inquired youths do not use condom, despite being aware of the HIV virus.
To improve the situation, this NGO intends to work until 2010 in mobilising some 340,000 youths within and out of the education system, in partnership with the Education Ministry and the communities.
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