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Sex education will help fight HIV: Rwanda MU

Posted on: June 11, 2013 11:24 AM
Josephine Mujawiyera is the MU's president in Rwanda
Photo Credit: Josephine Mujawiyera
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From The New Times on allAfrica.com

Teaching the young generation about the dangers of committing adultery will contribute towards fighting HIV/AIDS, the president of Mother's Union in the Anglican Church in Rwanda has said.

Josephine Mujawiyera made the remarks yesterday during a training on Gender Based Violence and the fight against HIV/AIDS which took place in Kigali. The training brought together participants from all the 11 Anglican Church dioceses across the country.

It was part of the many UNaids funded workshops the church has been conducting since March, with the aim of effectively engaging the church leaders and the church in general to fight against HIV/Aids.

"As a union, we have been engaging in sex education but we can not do every thing; we need support in that other responsible people especially parents come on board to make sure that our children especially girls can not easily be engaged in actions that will cost their lives," Mujawiyera said.

She noted that because there is lack of information and continuing reminder on what exactly may happen to the youth especially girls between the age of 18 and 22, they end up in actions that later affect them for the rest of their lives or even contract HIV.

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