HIV/AIDS Seminar in Union Place

8 November 2007

With the rapid increase in HIV/AIDS over Sri Lanka especially amongst the youth, as Christians it is our duty to educate them and to bring across to them the knowledge they need about this deadly disease in order to save our own fellow brothers and sisters.

The Project Positive team put their hands together once again to organizing another “Project Positive” Seminar on the 8th of November 2007, at the Salvation Army Church, Main Hall, Colombo and it was open to all Churches in and around the Colombo district. More than 56 participants attending this seminar.

The main purpose behind this seminar was to give the participants a clear understanding of the HIV/AIDS awareness programme and also an insight about what we plan to achieve in the future. This seminar also focused on our future objectives and what our role is as a church in helping those who have been affected by HIV/AIDS.

The following Topics were discussed at this seminar:-

1. Introduction to HIV/AIDS
2. What is HIV/AIDS
3. True and false about this disease
4. How to avoid getting HIV/AIDS
5. Disease which comes from sexual relationship
6. Real stories with games
7. The Churches responsibility on the people who are affected 
    by the disease
8. How do we help a HIV/AIDS patient’s mentality problems

Through this seminar the participants got received a wide knowledge in the respective areas mentioned above and it was very encouraging to see the response we got from the participants. The seminar was concluded by providing these participants with a comic book on HIV/AIDS, brochures, in their respective languages. A time was set apart to discuss any issues which the participants had and also to express their own views.