Help Prevent HIV AIDS

Help Prevent HIV AIDS

The lack of sexual education is suspected as the main cause of the spread of HIV / AIDS among adolescents in Latin America, according to the testimony of the expert social observers Chile, Raquel Child, which also deplored the state apparatus did not provide effective assistance to help young teens deal with the deadly disease.

Child, a specialist in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for HIV / AIDS, said in a press release that the adult world can not recognize the sexual culture of young people who are very different from them.

Understand better sex education. Latin American countries have fallen behind in developing a system to guide the younger generation to have a preventive attitude.

Child is one of more than 20 thousand specialists of HIV / AIDS are expected to attend the 17th International AIDS Conference scheduled to be held on Aug. 3-8 in Mexico City.

He said that prevention is one of the more effective measures to combat the spread of HIV / AIDS. He urged to renew the system of related educational programs and stressed that the school is a central element essential to disseminate and inculcate correct sex knowledge from the outset.