Born ERIC
MUSA LAMPI MULENGA in Zambia in a family
of five to two loving parents. I am currently studying medicine in Algeria.
My passion
for public service has been there for many years and I have taken part in many activities.
My being a
medical student brought me in contact
with a lot of sick people suffering at times from fatal
diseases. And one disease that has
particularly captured my attention is the AIDS pandemic. All this and the many ills facing society has
drawn me to want to do more, to want do something about the problems facing the
world today.
Moved by
this need to actively participate in making the world a better place, I could
no longer wait, I decided to volunteer with an NGO(AIDS ALGERIE) that helps
PLHIV,HIV prevention etc,, and once I became a member I was elated to find
other capable youths doing their part to make the world a better place.
Now
that I had the platform other than my
medical experience to bring about positive change in regards to the fight against HIV, the next
challenge was to see how this could be done. So with the help of a team of
highly capable youths I began to actively advocate for religious leaders to
take part in the fight against Aids. We began organizing workshops were
dialogue and exchange between religious leaders and youths could take place.
The main subject of discussions in these workshops included comprehensive
sexuality education. And this mainly due to the fact that main health, social
and economic challenge facing the world is a result of untimely deaths from
AiDS whose main transmission risk is unprotected sex. And we also felt that
getting religious leaders to talk openly about AIDS would greatly remove the
taboo tag and shame associated to it by society and would as a result help
fight the ignorance surrounding AIDS risk transmission and prevention. And what’s
more everyone began getting involved.
This level
of awareness and response we got from
different sectors of society as result of these efforts gave
amazing results. Religious leaders and youths are speaking
the same language regarding sex education and right sex practices. The
perception of sex as a taboo in our
society is fast losing its ground and and now youths have access to the
right knowledge regarding sex practices. One other and
equally important positive that is still
being harvested from these efforts is
that the involvement of youth in the fight against Aids keeps on rising, youths feel part of the
solution and are going out encouraging other youths to take part and take the
lead in the HIV fight.
With the
firm belief that together we can together we must eliminate AIDS , I together
with a team of other highly capable youths i continue to do what I can to make
the world a better place, a world free from HIV.
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