Title: WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS IN BENIN Location: Categories: HIV/AIDS Women’s Rights
Status:
Completed
Timeline:
January 13 05 to April 28 05
Description:
Educating the youths about Hiv/Aids and other deadly diseases especially young women and girls.
And how to avoid been affected with the virus (HIV/AIDS).
Women are often ostracized abused and disregarded. Women in the contemporary African society are not given equal rights, opportunities and treatment as men often-societal restrictions and taboos are put in place to limit them. In some areas in Benin women are not allowed to discuss sexuality and they risk abuse if they refuse sex.
Objectives:
Marketing and effective distribution of condoms. Condoms are believed to be effected tool in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. But people need to be assisted to develop the culture of using them. Often times men detest the use of condoms on the flimsy excuse of not being able to enjoy sex with them. This attitude needs to be corrected through proper information and education. In this regards also, women should be empowered to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality in order to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infection including HIV/AIDS. The uneducated and rural women should also be educated on how to use these condoms, which they may impress upon their partners.
Commercial sex workers in some of the notorious joints like JONQUET and ZONGO should be mobilized enlightened and educated on the risk of HIV/AIDS infection.
Mobilizing Churches and individual for the campaign of HIV/AIDS
Legal reform to empower women economically and improve their rights, along with medical advances and social change, is needed as part of a comprehensive response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Needs:
Educating films on HIV/AIDS
Books on HIV/AIDS both in English and in french
Communication gadget and kit like Public Addressing System, Film Projecting Player, Video Recorder .
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