Akim Oda (E/R), Sept. 28, GNA - Operators of public entertainment centres in the Birim Central Municipality have been called upon to display HIV/AIDS posters and other educational material on the deadly disease in their premises to help curb its spread. The President of the Universal United Youth Organisation (UUYO), Mr Eric Pinaman-Asare made the call at a three-day HIV/AIDS awareness training workshop for selected school children and vulnerable groups at Oda Nkwanta on Wednesday.

The President of UUYO a Non-Governmental Organisation stressed that it was at some of these centres where the issues of sexual activities were planned before they happened.

The workshop was also to sensitise the school children and vulnerable groups about the need to have compassion and support people living with HIV/AIDS in their communities.

Mr Pinaman-Asare stated that HIV/AIDS was real and had dire consequences for victims, and urged the youth not to engage in illicit and unprotected sex. They should also desist from early sex and concentrate on their books, since HIV/AIDS was real and had no known cure. He urged women to have single sex partners and to remain faithful to them in order to help them make significant impact on the fight against the disease. He said there was the need to inculcate into the youth the urgency for abstinence in addition to the promotion of condom use among adults. Mr Pinaman-Asare cautioned the youth to be circumspect in the use of blades, knives and other sharp instruments, because HIV/AIDS could be contracted through cuts from such instruments, apart from sexual intercourse.