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| Voices of Young People organises workshop on AIDS | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 7 : 'Voices of Young People (VYP)' who are speaking up on 'Chapters of Silence' today organised one-day youth and adolescent-led consultation programme with support from the National AIDS Control Organization by JKSPYM in partnership with J&K State AIDS Prevention and Control Society, youth-organization The YP Foundation, Plan India and the Department of Psychology at the University of Jammu. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Rakesh Khajuria, Project Director, J&K SACS and Professor R D Sharma, Dean, Academic Affairs and Dr. Arti Bakshi, HOD, Psychology, Jammu University.
With more than 325 million young people living in India between ten and twenty four years of age, and 2.5 million people aged between fifteen and forty nine years estimated to be living with HIV & AIDS. Recent data from the NACO reveals that almost 73% of young girls in India have misconceptions about modes of HIV transmission, and 78% of young people under the age of 20, do not know how to have safer sex. Formal recommendations from the report will be published in five languages and circulated amongst civil society and the government, highlighting young people's recommendations to create effective strategies to combat rising HIV rates in the country amongst young people. Young people are speaking up on the urgent need in their communities, for government programmes to effectively address Substance Abuse and Addiction, Sexuality Education and HIV Prevention.
"We want to talk about things like HIV, which most people ignore." Female, 20 years, Kasimnagar. These recommendations will be fed into the upcoming National AIDS Control Programme Phase IV Strategy for Youth and Adolescents, led by the National AIDS Control Organization. |
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