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16 days of activism update 1-13 December 2008
Sexual Rights Centre
December 15, 2008

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SRC expands HIV/AIDS prevention efforts

Children and youth lack unfettered access to HIV information, sexual and life-kills Education. In an effort to expand the reach of effective prevention efforts to young people who are at high risk of contracting STIs including HIV, the Sexual Rights Centre (SRC) embarked on an information campaign on December 1-3, 2008. The campaign targeted young people living in Makokoba and Emganwini high density suburbs in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

SRC screened a 90-minute film, Yesterday, a touching story about one woman's experience of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

More than 250 young people viewed the film and some requested that the SRC should continue screening educational films on a regular basis.

Film was used because of its power to 'cultivate' people's conceptions of social reality. Young people were targeted because of the need to groom future leaders who actively participate in the global fight against HIV/AIDS.

This year's World AIDS Day theme is "Lead, Empower, Deliver." The SRC believes that young people are the future leaders and by involving them at an early age we encourage them to continue to promote the campaign slogan, "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise."

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