The gender, labour and social development minister, Muruli Mukasa is advising parents to always take off time and speak to their children about the deadly HIV/AIDS disease if the country is to scale down on new infections among the adolescents.
Speaking at the opening of the stakeholders meeting, the minister reveals that adolescents are these days having the biggest numbers of people living with the disease as they are engaged in cross generation relationships coupled with networks which lead to the spread of the disease and its upon this time that parents have to talk to their children, mainly the girls, to protect themselves. He further calls for full implementation of the AIDS legislation saying this is one way in which the disease will be reduced from being negligently passed on to others.
This national stakeholder’s workshop has been organized to harmonize health, education, protection, and empowerment interventions that will better address the unique risks and vulnerabilities faced by adolescent girls, in a coordinated and coherent way.
