By George Esunge Fominyen
For many years programmes to tackle the spread of HIV and AIDS missed out on a vital and vulnerable member of the society: children. This was particularly so in African countries where discussing issues to do with with sexuality and reproduction have been a taboo for ages. As most policy makers as well as adults perceived HIV and AIDS as a very "sexual" problem, it became almost impossible to factor this sizeable group of persons: children.
Increasingly, this is changing. But dialogue between parents and children on reproductive health and sexuality remain difficult. At this time when many more children attend primary school than ever before in Africa, the role of the school in bridging this communication gap is quite important.
Donald Bundy, a World Bank expert who has researched on HIV as part of the lives of children and youth spoke to me about this during the just ended (3-7 december 2008) International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmissible Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Dakar...
Donald Bundy was one of the panelists at the Media Briefing on HIV Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Young people organised for journalists by the Panos Institute during ICASA 2008.
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