Recent reports of adolescents contracting HIV have prompted a women’s rights advocacy group to call for implementing comprehensive sexual education to help children and teenagers avoid sexually transmitted diseases. READ:
“We also call for robust, rights-based, community-led, and accessible testing, treatment, care, and support programs for HIV and AIDS for young people, women, and gender-diverse people,” she added.
“An enabling environment in schools and communities, especially in poor and rural areas, should be created to ensure young people have access to age and development-appropriate, rights-based, and evidence-based information. When they have the appropriate information, young people develop the life skills to make informed decisions about their bodies and lives, such as having safe sex and healthy relationships that recognize consent and gender equality,” they added.
“Without treatment, they could also develop severe illnesses such as tuberculosis , cryptococcal meningitis, severe bacterial infections, and cancers such as lymphomas and Kaposi’s sarcoma,” WHO said.
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