North West Health MEC, Dr. Magome Masike is urging parents to share responsibility of passing on health messages to children thereby ensconce moral values of family and society. With your assistant we can be sure that our prevention campaigns and health promotion messages around sexually transmitted infections have reached all corners of our province, Masike said.
Though he urges parents and adults to share responsibility, Masike says it remains a challenge for the department never to stop spreading the message about the dangers of sexually transmitted infections and the importance of proper condom use.
'The challenge is that our target group which is young and sexually active people of between 18 and 24 years of age is a target group in transit. This target group is in transit to adulthood and a new breed of ignorant and innocent boys and girls enters this target group stage every year. They immediately become vulnerable to the dangers of STIs and that is why health education and the spread of health promotion messages must never stop' he said.
Masike remains convinced that STI and prevention messages should continue because “we can never claim that everyone is well informed about STIs and use of condoms because every year a new group coming from the precarious stage of adolescence enters the target group and become sexually active”.
MEC Masike strongly believes that effective campaigns must be able take a direction which is more geared towards improving the attitudes of people towards condoms and condom use.
“As a department, we are increasingly concerned about the social behaviour, attitudes and the lifestyle of the youth today. It is worrying that the youth overindulge in quite a number of harmful things like unprotected sex”, he said.
Tebogo Lekgethwane (Department Spokesperson)
Cell: 082 929 9958
E-mail: tlekgethwane@nwpg.gov.za
Enquiries:
Ngwako Motsieng (Media Officer)
Tel: 018 387 5830
Cell: 082 964 8838 / 082 097 4970
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Parents urged to share responsibility of passing STI messages and use of condoms
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