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Youth summit tour prelude to World AIDS day

National AIDS Programme Coordinator, Noelene Levons-Clarke.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - In observance of World AIDS Day 2011, the National AIDS Programme of the Ministry of Health and Social Development will be conducting a National Youth Summit Tour to all secondary and tertiary educational institutions in the Virgin Islands.

Under the theme, “The Right to be Me and to Beat HIV”, the Territory wide tour, which targets youths of ages 12 to 24 years, will begin on Monday, November 28 and will end on Friday, December 2, a press release from the Government Information Service (GIS) stated.

National AIDS Programme Coordinator, Noelene Levons-Clarke stated, “The objective is to empower our young people to develop and maintain healthy lifestyles by creating a forum for them to discuss critical sexual health issues that affect them, and to enable them to identify and implement strategies for making the best lifestyle choices”.

In partnership with a team of local and regional facilitators, the National AIDS Programme will facilitate presentations on sexual health, group rap sessions and life skills exercises where participants will be engaged in interactive sessions focused on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Human Rights.

Additionally, they will learn more about life skills such as decision making, refusal and negotiation.

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