Later, kids began to call from all over the city asking if we could plan more events, so it turned out to be really popular, probably because this whole subject has been forbidden for so long. Now we have discos once a month in different cities. We value positive reinforcement. We don't like to scare people. We think that positive motivation is more effective than getting angry or trying to scare kids.
Most people think it's far away, abroad, etc.
Our strategy is to talk about AIDS, but more about STDs, which seem more immediate to people. Yes, that's definitely a problem. There have always been high abortion rates in Russia, and there still are. When we were talking to kids, we found that boys were more inclined to cite disease prevention as a reason to use condoms, while girls cited contraception. Parents, and also medical workers, have said that we are doing important work, but have expressed concern that we are going to encourage sexual activity and negate our progress.