NGO Advises Students On Casual Sex

Students in tertiary institutions have been advised to shun unprotected or causal sex on campus, to avoid contractive the dreaded HIV/AIDS. Speaking in an interactive session with some students of the Rivers State College of Arts and Science, Rumuola Port Harcourt, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with Development Support Actins (DSA) and The Society for Healthy Living made this statement in a youth development progrmame tagged “Focus Group Discussion.” According to the spokesperson Mrs Emitia Obitor, the programme which is geared towards the “Development of “Strategic Plans for HIV/ADIS in Rivers State,” is looking forward to establishing its development centres in various tertiary institutions and corporate organisations in the state. In an interactive session with the students to determine the index rate of HIV/AIDS on campus which some students rated high due to lack of sex education amongst students while others turned it down with emphasis on effective awareness campaign carried out by various government/Non Governmental Organisations within and outside the state. The students were also educated on the HIV/ADIS virus and other sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), its symptoms, prevention and the uses of anti-riteroviral drugs by pregnant women who have tested positive in order to prevent the unborn child from being infected. Chnwi Ate