PREVENTION OF PREGNANCY, and not HIV/AIDS, seems to be the reason behind condom use by young people.
And the attitudes of young people outlined by one of the younger participants in a National Assistance Board HIV/AIDS seminar “for men 50 and over and their sons” has caused Minister of Social Care Stephen Blackett to note that maybe State agencies needed to refocus their message to their target audience.
Blackett was responding to the participant who said that his interaction with those younger than himself showed they were scared, not of HIV or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), but of “getting pregnant and having children”.
“We are a society where abortion and having children is so much more scarier than STDs and to me that is a scary thing,” the young man said, as he asked what was the island’s focus since “HIV is not going anywhere”. (HLE)
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