"Plain, Plain talk on sex"
Elohim Family Centre & Partners present:
"Plain, Plain talk on Sex"
A Family Life Seminar
Seminar Speaker: Pastor Dale Brathwaite (Senior Pastor Elohim Family Centre)
Venue: Independence Square
Dates: April 25th - 27th
Presenter: Alexis Nurse (Social Worker, MA Social Policy and Administration)
U.W.I.: HIV/AIDS Response Programme. Project Officer: The Basics of HIV/AIDS
Venue: MERC Complex(Fairchild Street)
Date: April 28th
Time: 7:00 p.m. nightly
Free Parking will be available in the BTI car park on Lower Bay Street, next to DaCosta's Mannings
Partners:
City of Bridgetown Credit Union
New Testament Church Of God
Ministry of Youth, Family Sports, and the Environment
In an attempt to disseminate evidence based information to
Barbadians
towards improving the HIV/AIDS situation, the Elohim Family
Centre has
decided to take the findings of a research paper to the city in
an
outdoor seminar. The Seminar is entitled Plain Plain Talk on
Sex.
This document to be used is an anatomical overview of several
key
issues in Sexual behaviour and Behaviour Change implications of
sexual
activity relevant to HIV/AIDS in Barbados our nation.
The objective is to give a holistic Bible based perspective on
the
above issues and thereby help prevent and not to reinvent the
HIV/AIDS information wheel. My intent is to increase the level
of the
anatomical knowledge by 50% about STIs over a seven day period
and at
the same time increasing personal responsibility for the
management
of STIs in the nation.
The target group is 15-49 age group; "since 1995 AIDS and
related
conditions have become the leading cause of death among the
15-49
years age group. Programme planners and political leaders in
the
region and internationally agree that if the progress of the
epidemic
is not halted, the economic and development gains achieved in
the
1980s and 1990s will be lost. Already, the epidemic is taking
its
toll through increased mortality of the most productive age
groups.
even with the shifting of health resources to support the
prevention
of HIV infection in newborns, the infant mortality rates are
increasing. and more and more children are orphaned by the
disease."
(Pauline Russell-Brown, Dr.P.H; Behaviour change Interventions
for
Sexual Health Promotion: A Manual, pg 1)
Please note that I have already booked the MERC Complex (New
Testament Head Quarters, River Road) for a prayer meeting for
the
event April 24th, 7:00 pm. The meetings shall close with a
national
prayer meeting on April 30th in Independence Square.
Yours truly,
Pastor Dale
The Economic Cost of HIV/AIDS - The Barbados Situation