Ghana is still infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), according to Monica Sadungu, a public health nurse at Zebilla in the Bawku West District, and needs extensive media education to remind people to take precautions.
She emphasised the necessity for the populace to be aware of the virus' existence even if television and radio education on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has decreased in comparison to prior years. She claimed that the country was not out of the woods yet.
"HIV and AIDS still exist and are very real. Contrary to those days, there is no public schooling on television or radio now, but it does not imply that we are free. Let's not assume that it is finished, she urged.
This was expressed by Madam Sadungu in a side-by-side interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at a mentoring programme on STEM at Kobore, a village in the Bawku West District.
The Haven of Love Children's Foundation, a local non-governmental Christian organisation, spearheaded the organisation of the five-day event.
Almost 5000 students from basic schools received STEM mentoring through the programme, which was organised on different days in various neighbourhoods throughout the district. Also, their parents and guardians received training in a variety of skills that may be used to generate cash.
To become responsible leaders, Madam Sadungu, who is also a principal midwifery officer, advised the young, especially students and children in basic and senior high schools, to refrain from sex and focus on their education.
"I have noticed that students in my district start engaging in sexual behaviour when they graduate from junior high school because they believe their educational levels have increased. Several of them frequently go to late-night jam sessions.
In these programmes, she claimed, they engage in unprotected sexual behaviour with extremely high risks of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), teen pregnancy, and child marriage.
"They should not leave the care of their children to teachers alone, but also complement the efforts of teachers to groom their children," the public health nurse advised parents and guardians to take a strong interest in the upbringing of their children, especially their adolescent girls and boys.
The Foundation's founder and CEO, Samuel Nana Bekai Djirackor, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that in addition to STEM mentoring, the students also received instruction on career counselling, sex education, and the negative impacts of early marriage, among other topics.
According to him, the Foundation solely preaches abstinence since it is our fundamental principle as a group. We do not encourage the faithful use of condoms. We promote love, Christ, and abstinence because we are a Christian organisation.
"If everyone abstains, the world would be a lot better place. The key is abstinence; we can refrain thanks to God, who gives us self-control, the Founder remarked. If you abstain, you won't get STDs.
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