 of efforts to mark world 2024 international condoms day, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AHAV, has called on young people and the elderly to always use condom to help prevent a alarming rise of sexual infections in the country. This was made known during the sensitization rally held across MacCurdy Metropolis, where the theme, just use it. SAFA is fun, as they distribute thousands of condoms to the public ahead of Valentine's Day. Correspondent Francis Thierre reports that with major health stakeholders in Benway State in collaboration with the AHF, sharing in the distribution of condoms and sensitizing or sensitization leaflets following rate of sexual infections, HIV-AIDS prevalence, the AHF Advocacy and Marketing Manager, Steven Aborishade, representative of the Ministry of Women Affairs, the Minister of Health, and other development partners speak on the importance of condom use. It's good to abstain from sex. It's good to abstain is the best decision you can take. But for a majority of young people, that's a tall dream, it's a tall order. So if you know you can all abstain from sex, then you must just condom. And it's important. And we should stop denying the reality. Our young people are really, really having sex. That's the reality. So what we need to do is to empower them. And what we are doing today is a way of empowering that population with information and the education that they need. The ministry is also solidly behind this body in making sure that youths are aware of this advocacy so that we will stop losing our youth in the name of infections, HIV and STV infections. Our goal is to see that we have zero new infection. And so that is why we don't relent. We keep on educating people, keep on empowering persons. For those who are more sexually active, we still tell them that abstinence is the goal. Yes, you abstain from sex. When you use condom properly and consistently, it reduces the chances of you contacting some of these people.