KZN schools look at condom distribution
2013-01-31 12:01
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Durban - KwaZulu-Natal schools will begin looking at how condoms must be
provided to pupils and facilitate voluntary HIV/Aids testing, it was reported
on Thursday.
It was a matter or "how", rather than "should or should
not", that schools had to figure out, Education MEC Senzo Mchunu was
quoted as saying by The Mercury.
He was concerned about the social ills which plagued schools in the
province, with 10 595 pupil pregnancies in 2011 and drugs and alcohol being
brought into classrooms.
He did not believe it was enough for school health programmes to provide for
voluntary HIV/Aids testing of pupils at community clinics.
"And it is exactly what we want school governing bodies and parents to
discuss. We no longer need to be ashamed to accept that children are sexually active
at a young age," he reportedly said.
The department would focus on schools were pupil pregnancies were prevalent.
- SAPA
