A three day workshop for 11 peer educators on HIV/AIDS in 10 communities in Techiman Municipality has ended in Techiman.
The communities are Hansua, Kenten, Dagomba-line, Abanim, Takofianio, Tuobodom, Forikrom, Aworowa, Gyarko and Tunsuase.
The workshop was organised by the Techiman Virgin Club and was sponsored by Care International Ghana and the Ghana AIDS Commission.
A wide range of topics treated at the workshop included qualities of peer educator, building self esteem, prevention of mother to child transmission, demonstration and
stigmatization, conducting peer education and signs and symptoms of AIDS and gonorrhoeal.
Addressing the participants, Madam Barata Yakubu, Executive Director of Virgin Club, said the club aimed at encouraging the youth to abstain from pre-marital sex.
She said the club would also help lift the image of womanhood in the municipality and assist
members who were school dropouts to identify their potentials to develop them.
The executive director urged the participants to help develop a message
to effectively inspire behavioural change with regards to HIV/AIDS.
Madam Yakubu charged the participants to lead decent lives and should motivate students to seek prompt treatment and link students affected by HIV/AIDS with support groups.
Madam Ajata Seidu, Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator for Plan Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), called on the participants to provide basic information on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs) and HIV/AIDS towards total abstinence for the youth in schools.
She said what was more important for peer education was about utilizing people's influence over their colleagues to make positive interventions in their lives.