THA Secretary of Health Dr. Faith Brebnor, has stated that there are increased rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases being reported in Tobago.
Speaking during the Division’s “Play Mas, Live Well” campaign on Monday, Dr. Brebnor noted that the matter has been ignored for too long.
“We really are seeing increased rates of almost all of the STIs throughout the island. So way back when, when we started talking about HIV and the thing that we were looking at, or the images that we looked at included people looking very sick and then we went through that wave and then we recognised that there was medication that was available for us and that you did not have to die from HIV but you could live a very long healthy life with HIV and then somehow we stopped talking.”
Dr. Brebnor noted that with these concerning statistics, the “Play Mas, Live Well” campaign and accompanying initiatives will be executed.
“We stopped talking about STIs and we stopped talking about all of the other things, about consent and those areas and we decided that this was a great opportunity because those things we are seeing the numbers raised again. This was a good opportunity to say to the people of Tobago, to the people of Trinidad and Tobago, that we really need all of us to be healthy.”