By Claudia Liburd
Nevis Reporter-SKNVibes.com
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| Owner of Excellent Fast Food holding up a document entitled Condom Pledge which will ensure that all customers privacy are respected. |
(Charlestown; Nevis): A reported 32 businesses on Nevis have signed on to take part in a regional HIV/AIDS awareness initiative.
The initiative is currently being organized by Population Services International (PSI) in conjunction with the Society for Family Health (SFH) based in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
Businesses such as Spotlight Nightclub, Daytan Service Station, GTs Ice Cold Bar, Big Tymers Clothing, The Spot, F.I.T. Wellness Centre.
Daniels Deck Grocery, RAMs Supermarket, Shats Corner, Evelyns Drug Store, Cost Me Less Grocery, Panchos Grocery, Smokeys Bar. Superfoods, Squeeze Dem Up Bar, Sunshine Shoppers, Bambooshay Snackette and Bar, Give and Take Bar and Grocery. Shirley Jones Snackette, You and I Bar and Mini-mart, Excellent Fast Food, Hillcrest, Stanleys E& F Enterprises and The Octagon have all signed on to take part in the worthy cause.
SFH is donor funded with the main objectives being to promote acceptability and wide access condoms and condom purchase. ~~Adz:Right~~
They also seek to promote safer sexual practices among youths and other high risk groups while decreasing barriers to consistent condom use to therefore enhance the local capacity for sustainable HIV/AIDS prevention.
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PSI is funded through the Caribbean region by The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Global Fund.
The project comes in the wake of new statistics released by the UN which indicate that HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death in the Caribbean.
The region has the second highest rate of HIV/AIDS infection worldwide.
AT least 430, 000 people are living with HIV in the Caribbean and half the persons who have it have not been tested as yet.
According to local project officials the project has experienced tremendous success and has influenced social change where sexual practices are concerned.
