Youth Foundation of Armenia at the frameworks of the European week about the investigation of HIV, being held in November 22-29, initiated by “HIV in Europe”,will hold the project called “Talk about HIV. Get tested for HIV ” in the regions of The Republic of Armenia and in Yerevan.
The project is held by cooperation with NationalCenter for AIDS Prevention of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia. During the project the students of 5 state universities located in Yerevan will be given information about HIV, the discussions will be held, during which young people once again will be informed about HIV. Then an informative film will be shown.During the discussions the importance of giving a person knowledge about HIV in early years will be stressed on, and after which the persons who will need additional information will be consulted and examined about HIV.
In the regions of RA the youth centers of Youth Foundation of Armenia will hold seminar discussions, the films will be shown about HIV, young people will be given information about HIV.
The implementation of this project will raise the informative level of the youth about HIV, so the number of defended young people from HIV will also raise.The participants will also get knowledge how to act in order not to be infected by HIV.
Nowadays in Europe there are 2.3 million people living by HIV, and one of three of them doesn’t know about HIV. The infection has from 8 to 10 years hidden period of diagnostic, during which the person who is infected, usually doesn’t have any complaints and has healthy appearance. The diagnostic of the half of the persons, infected by HIV is confirmed in late periods of the infection. So it becomes the reason, that the treatment starts very late and it hurms the productivity. The main reason for this situation is that the persons are not examined about HIV before the symptoms arise.
