By Enouce Ndeche | Project Principle
A day full of community events including: HIV vaccine awareness procession walk, football games, HIV testing and hiv football based awareness activities, is what HIV scientists from university of Nairobi under the banner of institute of clinical research (ICR), and their counter parts community health and sports practitioners VAP teamed up together to celebrate world Aids Vaccine day on 18th May 2019.Despite the vaccine awareness piece of the event, the spot light of the event was the football games that involved a string of 30 football teams of both boys and girls who had to compete both ON and OFF the field by scoring regular football goals ON the pitch by using their best feet, and scoring OFF the field by using their fingers to get tested on HIV while earning bonus points towards their respective teams.
Scoring On The Field
Drawing from all the walks of Nairobi, the 30 participating teams of mixed gender played on a football pitch that was divided into four to accommodate 7 aside football matches. As a custom of the Kick N Test football tournament, during the intervals and after the matches, all participating players were engaged into side activities that included: participating in the hiv awareness football based activities, HIV testing provided by VAP’s health service providers, promotion of VMMC services amongst adolescent boys and with the day’s additional special activity of ‘Blood Testing’ provided by Nairobi university clinicians
Scoring Off The Field
A total of 320 youth both boys and girls got an opportunity to know their HIV status.The testing services were provided by VAP's health service provider,EDARP who had pitched VCT tents along side the football pitches.Additionally a total of 83 adolescent boys were reffered for voluntary medical male circumsicion to EDARP clinics and other nearest clinics.All teams encouraged their fans and community members to get tested to donate to them the extra bonas points. "Am happy to know my HIV status and am willing to encourage other to get tested"Said 19 year old Maliku.
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