Sunday December 2, 2007
Ronaldo helps spread awareness
KUALA LUMPUR: Football club Manchester United has contributed RM500,000 under its United for Unicef partnership to bring HIV/AIDS awareness to young people.
Unicef East Asia and Pacific Regional Adviser for HIV and AIDS Wing-Sie Cheng said the grant would be used to enhance youth activities by the six Prostar Youth Centres in Kedah and help set up a new centre in Perlis.
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Good read: Young Achievers Club members Sarah Chen (left) and Marisha Naz grabbing copies of the newly launched Best Practices of Youth Peer-to-Peer Education on Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Malaysia booklet at the forum in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. |
A public service announcement featuring Manchester United’s Christiano Ronaldo premiered at the launch of the Unicef Youth Forum at Legend Hotel on Friday.
About 100 participants from various youth organisations gave their input in drawing up the Young People’s HIV and AIDS Agenda for Action.
The forum is held in conjunction with the 1st National AIDS Conference from Nov 30 till Dec 2, to mark World AIDS Day yesterday.
“With this participation among the youth, I urge that their views be taken into consideration in handling HIV. They, too, must have a similar role in influencing their peers to stay away from HIV,” said Health Ministry deputy director-general Datuk Dr Ramlee Rahmat in his keynote speech.
“It is a bit sensitive to talk about safe sex but, in reality, everyone must know about it, face reality and be strong enough to make informed decisions,” he said at a press conference later.
Dr Ramlee said the number of new HIV cases reported in Malaysia had shown consistent decrease since 2003, with 6,756 cases in 2003, 6,120 in 2005 and 5,830 in 2006.
The Government hoped the downtrend would continue, he said.
If nothing is done, the Government projected that 300,000 people would be infected by the disease by 2015.
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