Jakarta Stop HIV / AIDS Programs To Prevent HIV / AIDS Spread Among Youth And School-Aged Children

HIV / AIDS among young people increasingly worrisome to many parties. Newest data indicates, the average age of people with HIV / AIDS, between 19-25 years. To prevent the spread of HIV / AIDS, has launched Jakarta Stop AIDS program initiated by the Unilever Foundation Indonesia / Yayasan Unilever Indonesia, work in cooperation with Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa Local Government of Central Jakarta.

Jakarta Stop AIDS is a primary prevention program the spread of HIV / AIDS among school-age youth. Program Manager from Public Health Education Yayasan Unilever Indonesia, dr Leo Indarwahono, told that this program will be done through community empowerment, especially teachers and students from Junior and Senior High Schools.

This activity is also at the same time points the program ambassadors drawn from 38 junior and senior high schools / equal, spread in the area of Gambir and Cempaka Putih, Central Jakarta. "HIV / AIDS threatens the most vulnerable young people or students, so that counseling to prevention we feel most easily if done by school-age children themselves," Leo said.

As Ambassadors, Jakarta Stop AIDS has selected 5 students from 2nd grade junior and senior high schools and taken from their schools who was joined the program. The students are given the training modules and public speaking about the important of action and behavior of clean living, healthy living, and prevent the spread of HIV / AIDS and drugs and narcotics.

"To maintain continuity, later each ambassador will choose four other students, whether their brother / sister and friends or their own classmates in the school, to continue this HIV / AIDS campaign in their school," Leo said.

Jakarta Stop AIDS is a continuation of a similar program held by Unilever in Surabaya, East Java, which is titled Surabaya Stop AIDS since 2008 and still running to this day.