Panafrican News Agency - December 9, 2001
Officials say the Committee would supervise and co-ordinate HIV/AIDS campaigns targeting young people.
Committee Co-ordinator Avode Dossou Gilbert said the "school is important, because it is not only exposed to the pandemic, but constitutes an appropriate place to popularise efficient measures to fight the scourge".
The National programme on AIDS (PNLS), said prevention programmes at local level should be complemented by the interventions in schools and Universities to effect the desired behaviour change.
Evelyne Akinocho, PNLS' official in charge of information, education and communication, also stressed the need to involve the education sector because of the vulnerability of youths.
Of the 40,967 people reported to be HIV-positive in Benin, some 16,071 are children.
The first AIDS was reported in the country in 1985.
Some 37,254 people have died from the disease, which infects about 50 people daily.
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