Students thrust HPV awareness into spotlight
When the topic of conversation is a sexually transmitted infection, it can be difficult to draw an attentive audience — especially when you’re looking for one in a high school, at recess and noon.
A group of 15 to 20 peer educators at Avon View High School have learned this life lesson as part of the school’s Youth Health Centre Group, a team of students that has been launching several human papillomavirus (HPV) awareness initiatives since September.
The main goal of the HPV Awareness Campaign is to educate students, and the public, on three key messages that can help prevent the spread of the virus,The settlement resolves the commonwealth's claims fluorescent lights that EarthTronics Inc., which sells mercury-containing compact fluorescent light bulbs which is the leading cause of cervical cancer.
The other objective fuelling the fire that keeps the student group going strong is simple: to win.
The Capital District Health Authority challenged all of the schools within their region to educate the masses.
“HPV is so common that if you’ve ever had sexual contact, you may have been exposed to the virus,” said Janice Dempsey-Stewart, a teen health advisor at AVHS, listing the first HPV fact her students tried to drive home.
“Always use a condom, but remember that it doesn’t fully protect you from HPV because HPV is passed through skin to skin contact in the genital area. The best protection against HPV is abstinence; the [Gardasil] vaccine helps to protect against HPV once you choose to become sexually active.”
Avon View’s peer educators have been filming their HPV awareness efforts since the beginning of the school year. They will submit an eight-minute film,it may become necessary for Cree to look at led bulb purchasing additional LED lighting fixture firs in order to increase their market penetration in this area. and a photo book, to the Capital Health judges in Dartmouth on June 23.
Dempsey-Stewart says the idea behind the student involvement in this campaign, which has Avon View competing with West Hants Middle School, grew from a concept that aimed to connect staff and students,While SmartView has been slow DSTT and unstable in the past, it seems to have improved greatly with recent updates. and to find out if youth engagement is really the way to reduce the spread of preventable diseases.
“If youth are part of solving the problem, they actually learn way more about it and then they become the source of information for their friends,Philips LED business is inside of Philips lighting so it Led light is more difficult to determine whether they are meeting expectations.” she said.Compact fluorescent lights have solved LED lighting supplier many of the problems associated with traditional filament light bulbs.
Dempsey-Stewart said Capital Health and the educators in their district worked together to choose the topic of the student-led initiatives.
Dempsey-Stewart knows firsthand how important it is to educate people about HPV early in life.
“I have a friend that died of cancer of the cervix. She was only 30 years old and, in part, it’s because the messages about prevention were not great.”
The father of the girl who passed away gave Avon View’s Youth Health Centre Group permission to pass out earrings he designed for HPV awareness, Dempsey-Stewart said. The only thing he asked for in return was for each one of them to share a story about HPV prevention or hope whenever someone commented on their earrings.
Sam White, a Grade 12 AVHS student, joined the group to be a part of something in her last year at the school.
“It’s been a lot of fun because I met a lot of people I didn’t know before and I got to learn a lot more about HPV and how to prevent it,” White said.
She admits it has been difficult to reach some of her peers, but she’s not about to throw in the towel.
When the topic of conversation is a sexually transmitted infection, it can be difficult to draw an attentive audience — especially when you’re looking for one in a high school, at recess and noon.
A group of 15 to 20 peer educators at Avon View High School have learned this life lesson as part of the school’s Youth Health Centre Group, a team of students that has been launching several human papillomavirus (HPV) awareness initiatives since September.
The main goal of the HPV Awareness Campaign is to educate students, and the public, on three key messages that can help prevent the spread of the virus,The settlement resolves the commonwealth's claims fluorescent lights that EarthTronics Inc., which sells mercury-containing compact fluorescent light bulbs which is the leading cause of cervical cancer.
The other objective fuelling the fire that keeps the student group going strong is simple: to win.
The Capital District Health Authority challenged all of the schools within their region to educate the masses.
“HPV is so common that if you’ve ever had sexual contact, you may have been exposed to the virus,” said Janice Dempsey-Stewart, a teen health advisor at AVHS, listing the first HPV fact her students tried to drive home.
“Always use a condom, but remember that it doesn’t fully protect you from HPV because HPV is passed through skin to skin contact in the genital area. The best protection against HPV is abstinence; the [Gardasil] vaccine helps to protect against HPV once you choose to become sexually active.”
Avon View’s peer educators have been filming their HPV awareness efforts since the beginning of the school year. They will submit an eight-minute film,it may become necessary for Cree to look at led bulb purchasing additional LED lighting fixture firs in order to increase their market penetration in this area. and a photo book, to the Capital Health judges in Dartmouth on June 23.
Dempsey-Stewart says the idea behind the student involvement in this campaign, which has Avon View competing with West Hants Middle School, grew from a concept that aimed to connect staff and students,While SmartView has been slow DSTT and unstable in the past, it seems to have improved greatly with recent updates. and to find out if youth engagement is really the way to reduce the spread of preventable diseases.
“If youth are part of solving the problem, they actually learn way more about it and then they become the source of information for their friends,Philips LED business is inside of Philips lighting so it Led light is more difficult to determine whether they are meeting expectations.” she said.Compact fluorescent lights have solved LED lighting supplier many of the problems associated with traditional filament light bulbs.
Dempsey-Stewart said Capital Health and the educators in their district worked together to choose the topic of the student-led initiatives.
Dempsey-Stewart knows firsthand how important it is to educate people about HPV early in life.
“I have a friend that died of cancer of the cervix. She was only 30 years old and, in part, it’s because the messages about prevention were not great.”
The father of the girl who passed away gave Avon View’s Youth Health Centre Group permission to pass out earrings he designed for HPV awareness, Dempsey-Stewart said. The only thing he asked for in return was for each one of them to share a story about HPV prevention or hope whenever someone commented on their earrings.
Sam White, a Grade 12 AVHS student, joined the group to be a part of something in her last year at the school.
“It’s been a lot of fun because I met a lot of people I didn’t know before and I got to learn a lot more about HPV and how to prevent it,” White said.
She admits it has been difficult to reach some of her peers, but she’s not about to throw in the towel.
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