Sunday, 18 December 2016

FOCUS, Focusing On Malawian Youth

Establishment for Community Support Services (FOCUS) has stepped forward on a mission to battle the spread of HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's) and young pregnancies among the adolescent.

The Karonga area based association, is making it an indicate enable the adolescent in the region with conceptive wellbeing messages.

They are gone for helping them in abstaining from taking part in unprotected sex.

As a component of the World Aids Day remembrances, FOCUS composed a football and netball bonanza that saw one thousand youngsters accepting condoms through their Reaching Mother and Child for Health extend.

The venture's organizer stressed that the dissemination of the condoms is not intended to urge the young to enjoy easygoing sex however to shield them from contracting HIV, STI's including youngster pregnancies.

Griffin Nyirongo told Capital FM the then again, they are urging them to refrain from sex and stay loyal to their accomplices.

As indicated by Nyirongo it is presently a reality that the nation's youngsters are participating in unprotected sex which is putting them at a higher danger of getting STI's and getting pregnant while in school.

"The condoms we have disseminated are for the individuals who can't avoid."

"Numerous youngsters are bashful to go out and purchase condoms in a shop since it is confused as an indication of indiscrimination", Nyirongo said.

Center utilized the donning exercises bonanza as a draw to snare the greatest number of youngsters as they could into listening to actualities about their conceptive wellbeing.

It is foreseen that youngsters in the area will get into a culture of utilizing condoms as well as utilizing them reliably.

This is the second practice of such nature to be directed in the region.

Three months prior, the Ministry of Health through Karonga District Hospital additionally dispersed condoms.

The 2015 to 2016 wellbeing report shows that in the northern district, Karonga has a most astounding HIV pervasiveness rate with around 9% inside the age gatherings of 15 to 35.

What's more, it has high pregnancy rates supported by Nkhata Bay area which is for the most part because of hurtful social practices.

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