RCC initiates HIV-AIDS programme

THE Roads Construction Company (RCC), in partnership with the National Social Marketing Programme (NaSoMa), has launched an RCC HIV-AIDS workplace programme.

RCC’s Safety, Health and Environment Manage, Jason Immanuel Mathews, told The Namibian that phase one of the programme started shortly after the programme was initiated in August 2003: selecting and training ‘peer educators’ within the company. The overall aim of the programme is to educate and advise employees on HIV-AIDS and prevention strategies.During the second phase earlier this year, the trained peer educators conducted training for colleagues at their duty stations.Mathews said the training curriculum dealt with basic facts on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV-AIDS; human rights; risk perception; condoms and their use, as well as male and female anatomy in relation to condom use.Recently, an HIV-AIDS awareness workshop was held at Ondangwa where two peer educators, Hambeleleni Jeremia and Peter Kayambu, made the audience aware of the dangers facing people who did not refrain from risky practices.The overall aim of the programme is to educate and advise employees on HIV-AIDS and prevention strategies.During the second phase earlier this year, the trained peer educators conducted training for colleagues at their duty stations.Mathews said the training curriculum dealt with basic facts on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV-AIDS; human rights; risk perception; condoms and their use, as well as male and female anatomy in relation to condom use.Recently, an HIV-AIDS awareness workshop was held at Ondangwa where two peer educators, Hambeleleni Jeremia and Peter Kayambu, made the audience aware of the dangers facing people who did not refrain from risky practices.