The Society for Family Health (SFH) has embarked in an adolescent-friendly campaign against HIV/AIDS through engaging young persons in the campaign as doctors and support providers for those infected. The Director in charge of HIV programs for SFH, Godpower Omoregie while speaking with journalists at the Agenda for Adolescent and Young People Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Dissemination Meeting, said SFH was motivated to start the campaign because most of the intervention programs were ignoring young people. He said most young people prefer to disclose their HIV status or discuss their sexuality with their peer instead of regular doctors and counsellors. Similarly, Dr Funke Oki, Deputy Director Community Prevention and Care Services, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), said the Agency would adopt some of the strategies used by SFH in some states which worked. “They have worked in 4 states and we have 36 states plus the FCT in Nigeria, so in our interactions with other states, we will be telling them this is what SHF did”, Dr Oki said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 30, 2019 14:48 UTC