“HIV/AIDS, You have a Role to Play too” means that everyone including students has a role to play in the prevention and the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
As a student, you need to :
- Seek knowledge and information that empowers you to acquire critical life skills that will help you stay safe from HIV/AIDS.
- Support and care for all infected and affected learners, teachers and other persons and work tirelessly to eliminate stigma and discrimination.
- Participate in school-based anti-HIV/AIDS activities on prevention, mitigation and capacity building.
- Set goals in life that motivate and drive you on to achieve and stay out of mischief and predisposition to dangerous or risky situations.
- Report suspicious conduct, indecent touches and all forms of sexual abuse to a trusted elder in the school or to your parent and/or community or religious leader.
- Aquire and share knowledge and skills of HIV/AIDS.
- Act as a positive behavior role model to your fellow students and peers.
- Know your HIV status through VCT (Voluntary Counseling and Testing).
- If you are living with HIV/AIDS, seek medical and psychosocial care, adhere to treatment, live positively, protect yourself from re-infection and from infecting others.
**HIV/AIDS: U have a Role 2 Play too** means that as others are taking care of the infected persons and themselves by not contract HIV/AIDS, you should be doing the same too.
The statement simply but seriously means that everybody including students have a duty to perform in as far as the struggle to keep away the enemy HIV/AIDS.
Students should never think that HIV/AIDS is for old people alone, they too can be affected when they loose their loved ones to the virus, or when they have to take care of somebody infected.
We all are therefore expected to research and find out about AIDS and how we can fight it in our daily life.
Struggle to inform others about all you know concerning HIV/AIDS.Help those who are being misled by assisting them with facts.