Young Peoples and Human Rights Ghana

Written by Mac-Darling Cobbinah HIV/AIDS have been described as the killer disease that kills millions in Africa today. The majority of the people killed by HIV are considered to be women due to the physical make-up, which place them at the receiving end during sexual intercourse. Children recently have also been affected and infected with the HIV virus because most of these innocent babies are born with the virus from an infected mother (Mother-child transmission). The affected children most times have their parents dead before their birth or sometime after birth. The write shall analyze the various preventive methods that have been used for HIV/AIDS educational purposes over the years, as well as pointing out some unavoidable pitfalls and proposing a way forward. In Africa, HIV has been tackled around the various taboos on sex and sexuality issues. Most part of Africa do not talk about sex in public and difficult to even discuss it in privacy with family and friends. But HIV has ma