The Northern Cape Provincial MEC of Health, Mr MS Sokatsha, invites all media to the Provincial STI & Condom Awareness Week event. The event will take place at Kutlwanong Square, Club 2000, Galeshewe-Kimberley in the Frances Baard District of the Northern Cape Province.
STI and Condom Awareness Week is one of the most important national focus weeks of the Department of Health because of the relationship between Sexually Transmitted Infections(STI’s) and the spread of HIV & AIDS. Educating all South-Africans on Sexually Transmitted Infections, their prevention, treatment and link between STI’s and various other health challenges including HIV & AIDS are important foundations of our public health campaign.adidas tubular invader blue suedeThe theme for the 2009 STI & Condom Awareness Week Campaign is “Love me enough to protect me from STI’s, HIV and unwanted pregnancy”
The primary goal of the STI and condom awareness campaigns is to alert the Northern Cape population at large about the rising syphilis incident rate in the province and how to prevent syphilis, hence we embarked on a door-to-door campaign, visiting families and individuals at their homes. This endeavor will always afford us an opportunity to interact with members of the public and provide on the spot responses in terms of any kind of misunderstanding and misinterpretation of information.
Other dignitaries expected to accompany the MEC of Health are Members of the Executive Council, Members of the Provincial Portfolio Committee of Health , the Executive Mayor and Mayor of Frances Baard District Municipality and Sol Plaatje Local Municipality respectively, Representatives from the Department of Health.
Details for the event are as follows:
Date: Friday 21 August 2009
Venue: Kutlwanong Square, Club 2000, Galeshewe-Kimberley
Time: 10h00
Enquiries:
Andrid F. Scholtz
Ministerial Spokesperson
Tel : 053 830 2000
Cell: 0824479696
Fax: 053 8331925
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Issued by: Ministry of Health
Northern Cape Province
19 August 2009