Thirty Peer educators on HIV and AIDS drawn from the Kwahu West Municipality on Friday ended a
two-day workshop on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), at Nkawkaw.
The workshop, which was organized by Tinacom Foundation and Precious Life, both non-governmental organizations, aimed at equipping the participants with the knowledge and skills for them to intensify education on the transmission of the diseases in the municipality.
They were taken through topics like basic facts about HIV and AIDS and STDs, discrimination, record keeping, up-to-date records on the two diseases in the municipality and how to train others in the communities for them to disseminate messages on the diseases.
It was sponsored by Ghana AIDS Commission and supported by Kwahu West Municipal Assembly.
Addressing the participants, the Chief Executive Officer of the Tinacom Foundation, Mr Edward Asiedu-Mensah, advised the participants to take the knowledge acquired seriously and implement
them in the communities to reduce the spread of the disease in the municipality.
Mr Joe Appiah also of Precious Life urged the participants to educate the youth and school children to abstain from pre-marital sex and to take precautions to avoid the spread of the disease in the area.