Provide the youth with HIV/AIDS facts (causes,effects,symptoms,prevention,statistics)
Impart life skills in the youth.
Involve youth in influencing decisions and policies on issues
that affect them.
Train Peer Educators who will be charged with responsibility
of teaching other youth.
Help bring about behavioural change among the youths
To reduce the number of infected youths.
To provide information to the youths about HIV/AIDS.
To share with the fellow youths on how to lead responsible
lives.
To supplement the government's effort to fight AIDS.
To help students to identify the pressures in our society
that influence young people's sexual behaviour .
Help the youth to apply the refusal skills steps to pressure
situations to avoid HIV infection.
Help students to understand the significance of abstinence
as the exemplary teenage sexual practice.
To inform the youth of high-risk sexual practices with a
special awareness regarding reducing the potential of contracting STD's
and AIDS.
To enable members to list ways to reduce exposure to HIV
citing statistics on failure and success rates of condoms and other contraceptives.
To link up with organization addressing HIV/AIDS e.g. (UNAIDS,TASO,UAC,AIC,UNASO)
so as to get relevant information for the youth.
To convince as many sexually-active students as possible
to return to abstinence based on the potentially negative outcomes for
sexually active teenagers.
Help the youth to understand that in order to accomplish
the goals of HIV/Abstinence,they need to feel free to talk about sex in
classroom.
To work as a team in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.
Guide the teenagers in responsible decision making.
Answer students questions on HIV/AIDS and other social
issues and problems.
Promote communication between the youth and elders(teachers,parents,religious
leaders,policy makers,etc).
AIMS
OF THE HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CLUB