A skills building session, “the Beautiful game” showcased how the game of football has been used to target young people with HIV prevention messages and life skills training.
The consensus reached at the question and answer session was that HIV prevention interventions will have to take into account the motivating factors that would make (for example) young people decide to use condoms every time they have sex.
The success stories of using soccer for HIV prevention, opens minds to think about other types of sport and/or activities that could be used as a cost effective way to reach out to those with the greatest HIV prevention needs.
Something to think about!
Jabu
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Thanks Jabu
Interesting and innovative ways to engage the youth indeed.
Looking forward to your 'plan of action'!
Angelina
Hi Jabu.
It must have been interesting listening to the success stories of using soccer for HIV prevention, We really need to think about other types of sport and/or activities especially after the articles in the papers "RISKY BUSINESS" thelondonpaper 4/08/08. They seem to be alot of prevention work to be done. Can't wait for the Feedback...
Christabell
Hi, it seems that the conference has focused on prevention especially with regards to young people.
It would be great to champion the football initiative in the UK as most of these programmes are done in Africa and other parts of the world. UNICEF's programme 'The Right to Know' (RTK)involves young people actively planning their own HIV/AIDS programmes and prevention messages. This has more of an impact as its young people doing the work which in turn raises awareness. It has been done in Jamaica, Yugoslavia, Ghana and Zambia and it needs to be implemented in the UK.
Jabu, we can plan 'Do it Right, Play it Safe' from some of these ideas.
Enjoy the rest of the conference.
Mariama
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