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HIV/AIDS: NGOs Urged to Focus on Youths Bauchi In a move to reduce the scourge of HIV/AIDS to its barest minimum, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have been challenged to evolve new strategies and focus more attention on youths within the ages of 16 to 25 years, so as to make reasonable impact in their fight against the dreaded disease. Speaking while declaring open a one-day training workshop for "Sports for life Ambassadors," a programme organized by the Community Health Agency in collaboration with Vision Project in Bauchi, yesterday, the Field Manager, Mrs. Juliana Nathaniel spoke on the need to deliberate on the problems confronting adolescent and to find a lasting solution to it. She said many youths are prone to risks, "as 30 per cent of female teenagers and 25 per cent of male teenagers do not know any way out to avoid the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Nathaniel who urged the youths to use preventive measures to avoid the spread of the deadly disease, said the programme was designed to inculcate in the youths, healthy life styles through the use of life skills, improved self-esteem and goal setting. According to her, "the Vision Project viewed with seriousness, the alarming rate in which HIV/AIDS is spreading", and urged youths, to play safe. Earlier in his welcome address, the Project Director of Community Health Agency, Mr. Gabriel Samuel, said the Sports for Life Ambassador training workshop drew participants from the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, athletes, coaches, sports clubs, youth clubs and other local NGOs. Nathaniel said the aim of the workshop was to seek more ways to fight HIV/AIDS among youths in the society, pointing out that parents have a greater role to play in the fight against the disease. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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