Bangkok--Oct 7--JWT Public Relations
Four organizations join hands under the campaign ‘Open-Minded Talk for Safe Sex’ aims to encourage parents to be more open-minded and talk more openly with their children in order to provide them with accurate information on the different dimensions about sex. Reducing communication gap and help enhance relationship among family members.
Ms. Pawana Wienrawee, Project representative said “The project ‘Open-Minded Talk for Safe Sex’ is supported by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in collaboration with the Department of Diseases Control, Ministry of Public Health, PATH, Thai Business Coalition on AIDS (TBCA) and Thai NGOs Coalition on AIDS (TNCA).
The campaign aims to encourage parents to be more open-minded and talk more openly with their children in order to provide them with accurate information about sex. Importantly, it will help youth to gain better understanding regarding sexuality and safe sex as well as increase parents’ confidence to build trust with their children and give them a basic guidance. The campaign is a means of reducing sexual problems occurs due to youth misunderstanding.
Ms. Pawana added “The Bangkok poll conducted with 1,111 youth within Bangkok and Metropolitan indicated that youth would like to seek sexual advice from parents but the main reason for seeking friend’s advice on the issue is because they are afraid that parents will scold, punish them or cut short the conversation. Parent seldom open the opportunity for a child to explain and does not have much time for their children. More than 90% agreed that they will be able to make correct and safer sexual decisions if parents are more open-minded on teenage relationship and sex. Therefore, all four organizations have join hands to establish the ‘Open-Minded Talk for Safe Sex’ campaign to help educate teenagers and young adults about safe sex as a means to develop their knowledge and understanding as well as enhance family unity.
Interested parents may seek advice and guidelines for talking about sex in various situations with their children or request a ‘Open-minded Talk for Safe Sex’ manual on how to talk more openly about sex with the call center 0-2268-8200 from 15.00 — 21.00 hrs. The campaign starts 3 October — 25 December 2005. For more information, please visit the website www.openmindtalk.com
For more information, please contact: JWT Public Relations
Pornchanan Mongkolkul - Tel. 0-2204-8223, 0-1755-1105
Khun Sarinya Sanmeema - Tel. 0-2204-8218, 0-1805-1498
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