What We Are Dying To Know!

Recognizing the growing rate of HIV infection occurring amongst 13-24 year olds and the need to educate, inform and equip young persons to make healthy decisions, three years ago Girls Rule! began to provide annual HIV awareness and prevention workshops to youth at our Chicago south-side location.

Our youth sessions were really engaging, fun and the young ladies and gentlemen (ages 7 - 18) had A LOT to say in their age appropriate sessions! One of the things we discussed were the mixed messages that they previously received about body image, sex and HIV - or worse, they received no message at all.

Have you had conversations with the youth in your life about HIV? Do you feel comfortable discussing it? Do you think that parent workshops about talking to youth about HIV would be helpful? What do you think?