Condom and STI’s Week celebrated in Style at University of Limpopo

“At University of Limpopo there are Peer Educators who are responsible for the promotion o health at the campus”
The department of health in South Africa selected the second week of February every year as a week for the promotion of condom use and the weed of educating people about the use of condoms and the problems of sexually transmitted Infections. In this week provincial departments of health have a campaigns about the use of Condoms. This year the campaigns started from Sunday 10th and it will end up today Saturday 16th.
One of the main things that health professionals are encouraging people is for them to go for test and always use protection when having sexual intercourse. According to them sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a problem even though most can be easily and painlessly cured. Most of the people who has STIs, wait until they are chronic, most STIs are curable in early stage, which is why people are encouraged to test for them.
At University of Limpopo there are Peer Educators who are responsible for the promotion o health at the campus, in turf loop campus this week was celebrated in a very stylish way. Peer Educators organized major three events, where by the main purpose was to educate people about the use of condom and letting students to be aware of the STIs. On Monday 11th peer educators organized a major event where an STI Video was shown to the students, and after that there was a lecture about them, students also had a chance to comment and ask questions.
On the 14th the valentine’s day a very big romantic stylish event was also organized, where by different student’ structures were invited to come and share with students the way they understand the definition of valentine’s day and the true meaning of love. Mr. & Mss University of Limpopo 2007/8 were there. The event was fool of romantic dance and Love Poetry. Students also had a chance to discuss about their feelings about the true meaning of love in the Valentine’s Day. Yesterday on Friday peer educators also had a urge event where by they were introducing their 2008 programmes to the University Community. According to them, they planned many programmes to make sure that they fight with the HIV infection in their campus.