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"content": "participating, we should bring in county workers to conduct civic education to ensure that people do not stigmatize those who are infected. In many counties, HIV/AIDS prevalence has reduced. However, we do not have clear statistics that reveal to us why the numbers have reduced. Is it because people are no longer infecting each other? How is their CD4 count? It is very important for us to establish those facts. I believe that the committee that will be set up will start generating new data for us to understand better such issues. Dissemination of information will also be much easier in the counties unlike the former arrangements. We would like to know about projects that they are running to ensure the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, many of our youths are faced with the challenges of peer pressure. The other day, we saw what happened in Eldoret. These are some of the worries that we carry on as parents. How can we make them understand the importance of being responsible? Sometimes back, we had a lot of advertisements asking youths not to use condoms, but abstain from sex and wait for the right time. I know that, that has gone beyond because of the eroded values. Today, the youth believe, which is good, that they must use condoms. However, the most interesting part is that they prefer to use a condom not to prevent themselves from HIV/AIDS but from pregnancies. That makes the society to be more worried because they do not fear the disease. They will tell you that they can still live longer with the disease. We have to continue disseminating proper information to the people. We want to have a productive young generation that will pick the country from where we are and move it forward. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also very saddening that even those of us who are married are the ones who engage more in extra-marital relationships with others. This is what we refer to, in other words, as “ mpango wa kando”. That is very common. If we do not change the situation, through what the Senator for Migori is bringing now, then, we face danger. There will be people in many families living with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must, as the Senate, start thinking about the future of our youth. It is important to come out clearly and tell our youth that if we do not change our moral values then, as a country, we would have lost what is in the Constitution and it will be of no benefit. Today, we are moving very fast with the Western culture. Our youth find themselves in a very critical situation. It is normal for a person who is between the ages of 20 to 25 years to do as many mistakes as possible because they have the time. However, the moment you reach the age of 30, you have to focus and start thinking of how to move on in life. I know that the generation that gets itself into this challenge is within that age. We have the youth who engage in sex as early as at the age of 10. It is time we, as parents, asked ourselves – as we claim to be Christians who observe values – where we have lost the values that we used to respect. In the past years, a child could conduct himself or herself well up to the age of 16 or 17 years. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senator for bringing these amendments that will revive committees that have been dormant. I hope, as the Senator Minority Leader said, that a percentage will be put to ensure that the committees which will be established are well facilitated, to ensure that the work is done properly. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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