2024-01-21 08:20:26
Lakota, January 21, 2024 (AIP) – The Ivorian Social Marketing Agency (AIMASS), in collaboration with the Directorate of Mutuality and Social Work in Schools (DMOSS) launched, in Lakota, a pregnancy prevention campaign unwanted infections, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and acquired immunodeficiency virus disease (HIV/AIDS), Friday January 19, 2024, for students from three secondary schools.
The launch of this campaign was held in the presence of representatives of the heads of the three chosen high schools and colleges, namely the Boga Doudou Emile modern high school (LMBDE), the departmental high school, and Ahianot college. Previous awareness-raising activities were carried out by AIMASS in the Lôh Djiboua region, particularly at the level of the Regional Directorate of National Education and Literacy (DRENA) of Divo.
The DMOSS coordinator of the DRENA of Divo, Ange Beugré, justified the choice of the three establishments selected for this campaign by the large number of students they contain.
“We have also already carried out previous activities in these establishments which have given satisfaction to AIMASS and DMOSS,” specified Mr. Beugré.
The actual start of activities on the ground is planned for February 2024. But before that, the campaign will carry out its “training of supervisors of the three establishments” component from January 29 to 31, 2024.
The head of the AIMASS regional branch in Divo, Kouakou Kouassi Olivier, presented, for this campaign launch, the context, the overall content of the campaign and some results from the previous edition.
Early pregnancies are of great concern to the Ivorian authorities, because they constitute a real public health problem. From September 2022 to April 2023 Côte d’Ivoire recorded 3,588 cases of pregnancies during schooling. AIMASS and DMOSS are on the front line to eradicate this phenomenon which jeopardizes the future of many students. Beyond the school environment, AIMASS had already launched a similar campaign in March 2015 among young people aged 15-24 in urban areas.
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