Having considered the RapPort initiative as a best practice, which should be encouraged and strengthened if we are to ultimately curb the social ills that plague our young people; the facilitator will also meet with guidance counselors and in- school students in various high schools throughout the Turks and Caicos Islands.

 
These students have been trained by the National AIDS Program as Peer Educators and are affecting behavior change among their peers in the prevention of early sexual initiation and the resulting physical and social problems, with which this is associated. These meetings are expected to sensitize the in-school students to RapPort aims and objectives.

The National AIDS Program envisions this timely activity critical to supporting existing programs, which are geared to the prevention of HIV transmission in the youth population and by extension the TCI society on a whole.

 
The Program has engaged the services of Mr. Salorne McDonald; Mr. McDonald is the Regional Behavior Change Communications Manager, with Population Services International, Caribbean Office (PSI/SFU to facilitate the workshop).

 
For more information, kindly contact Keziah Nash, Program Officer on 946-2801, ext, 50404.