Mission & Justice

14/4/08

Young people in Honiara can now access improved STI and HIV services at the Rove and Kukum clinics run by Honiara City Council. Over the past six months eighteen Registered Nurses and Nurses Aids attended training run by Save the Children’s HIV Prevention Program regarding adolescent health and the guiding principles of youth friendly HIV and STI services. Save the Children is running this project with the support from AusAID. Both clinics now have qualified Voluntary Confidential Counseling and Testing (VCCT) staff and private, comfortable rooms in which to conduct the counseling of confidential health matters of young people.

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Zara Kanu; 14/4/08

Papua New Guinea has a very high rate of people living with HIV/AIDS, ranking fourth in the Oceania region.This should allow the Education department to give this issue prominence in its curriculum, director for Enga University of Papua New Guinea centre Raphael Tombe has said when presenting his abstract at the UPNG during the PNG Association for Distance Education biennial conference. The abstract entitled Zero effectiveness on HIV/AIDS awareness and the need for a separate HIV/AIDS curriculum in Papua New Guinea showed, through research, that there was a limited subject content coverage regarding HIV/AIDS in the formal educational curriculum in practice and the regular face to face educational approach benefits only a small portion of the youth population.

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