What is a Healthy Lifestyle?

According to the UN Declaration on Human Rights, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care, and the necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age, or other lack of livelihood in circumstance beyond his control.”

Responsible Verses Irresponsible Behaviour

Irresponsible behaviour that threatens your lifestyle:  

• Human Trafficking
• Unprotected sex
• Alcoholism
• Domestic Violence
• Child abuse
• Multiple partnerships
• Not using a treated mosquito net
• Not taking your ARVs and medicine correctly
• Pollution/littering
• Drug abuse
• Not getting tested for HIV/AIDS

Ways you can be responsible:  

• Use a condom
• Know your status
• Protect the rights of others
• Take pride in your cultural heritage
• Support small business
• Fight Discrimination
• Minimize alcohol abuse
• Avoid drugs
• Stay faithful to one partner
• Understand your risks and vulnerabilities to human trafficking
• Make sure your friends and family know where you are and who you are going with
• Get tested for HIV/AIDS
• Support one another's right to universal access and a healthier lifestyle

What the Ministry is currently doing to fight HIV/AIDS  

•  Village HIV/AIDS Workshops

•  Human Trafficking Presentations

•  Youth Friendly Spaces and Peer Education

•  Participation in National Testing Days

•  World AIDS Day Events

•  Staff Education

•  Hinterland Scholarship Student Assessment Program to access the risks and vulnerabilities of students

•  Encourage voluntary testing to help Amerindians know their status

•  Mitigate threats of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) into sports club activities.

•  Integrating SRH principles into Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) curriculum of school programs.