DID YOU KNOW
HIV is primarily spread through 1) Unprotected sex (vaginal, anal, oral) with someone who has HIV. 2) Sharing needles or syringes 3) Being born to an infected mother and 4) Blood transfusion
#startfree #stayfree #AIDSfree
'It has never been more urgent for us to come together to end HIV and Tuberculosis. We achieve the most when we work together, using all our strengths, harnessing all of our collective potential to end HIV and Tuberculosis for a healthier world as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Michel Sidibe Excutive Director of UNAIDS
Season's Greetings!!
We welcome Gunilla Carlsson as our new Deputy Executive Director of Management and Governance. We look forward to working with you to End AIDS!
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UNAIDS Country Director speaking at the City of #Windhoek WAD2017 commemoration event with Mayor of Windhoek. They call on greater make engagement in the #HIV response to make sure no one is left behind and we truly can #EndAIDS.
#BeFree campaign for Hardap region launched in Rehoboth
The OYO Windhoek rural group has been showing what they learnt at the the OYO workshop (this includes messages about teenage pregnancy, using a condom, HIV prevention, where to get access to health services) in their different perspective communities in Windhoek #AidsFreeGeneration #handsupforhivprevention #OYO
OYO youth workshop yesterday in Katutura: Talented young people creating their own songs, dance performances and exchanging their experiences related to HIV and teenage pregnancy. Soon they will perform their own show in different informal settlements in Windhoek where messages about HIV AIDS prevention, transmission, treatment and teenage pregnancy will be transmitted through their songs, dances and dramas #youth empowerment#preventionisbetterthancure#health education through NAPPA#OYO#UNAIDS
Youth attending OYO workshop
OYO facilitator engaging with the community and informing them about PrEP Ombetja Yehinga Organisation
OYO educating the audience about the importance of taking ART as prescribed to be able to live a longer life
It is important that we do not discriminate against people living with HIV, OYO did a dance demonstration about the difficulty of drinking ARV's in a hostel and the fear of being discriminated because of your status Ombetja Yehinga Organisation
A dance demonstration about using PrEP when in a relationship with a HIV infected person, it is important to continue using condoms as well
OYO facilitator engaging with the community and informing them about PrEP
OYO performance yesterday at Havana attended by many community members Ombetja Yehinga Organisation