SCOUTS VOICE . .

March 2008...................................................................................................................................................................................................

You can avoid HIV

Know what you need to do at this
P eople with HIV can live a
long life, if cared for
properly.
time. Are you studying? Do you feel
like starting a relationship? What is
But the best thing is to avoid it. more important to you at this time?
That is what you should then choose.
Scouts Voice Journalists who gathered
at Masindi Public School listed ways Studies may only be for a limited
in which HIV can be avoided. These period of time, but sex will be there as
include: long as someone lives.
• Delaying to have sex
The best decision is to delay sex for
• Condom use
now and concentrate on your studies.
• Parents testing for HIV before
Abstaining from sex is the safest way
having children. This is one of the
of avoiding HIV. It does not cost you
main ways in which young people
anything. Remember AIDS is a killer
who have HIV got it.
and still has no cure.
• Avoiding sharing sharp objects

As a young person what can you

Dictionary:
Counters: Things you use to move, HERE WE ARE: SV journalists with their facilitators at
do to avoid HIV? the end of the editorial training at Masindi Public School
You need to set your priorities well. to show your marks
Dice: What you throw down to score
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How much do you know about HIV support?

Test yourself on this game. To make a dice cut a small square of dry cassava or wood. Use
a pen to mark each side with dots 1 to 6. Make your own board from boxes. Use bottle tops or
stones as counters. Two or more children can play.

Sn a k e s You backbite
children whose
parents have AIDS

and
s
You do not show

r
You refuse to

d e
empathy (you do

d
share your

L a
snacks with not stop to think if
children with HIV it were you) to the
sick

Playing
instructions You play
with friends
Each player takes a turn rolling the although
dice. The player with the highest they have
number goes first, followed by the HIV
other players on his or her left.
You refuse to
Players put their pieces on the "start" You know HIV sit or play with You are ready to
square. cannot be people who are help the patient
transmitted by HIV positive through the
hugging or sickness
First player rolls the dice and moves shaking hands
his piece on the board, as many places
as the dice shows.

If a player lands at the bottom of the

ladder, he should read the "action"
aloud and then move up the ladder to
the higher place on the board.
You respect
If the player lands on a snake head, he everyone including
reads the action and then slides down people with HIV
to the bottom of the snake.

Play continues: the first person to

reach the "finish" spot is the winner.

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