The army can undertake intensive education among its soldiers in safe sex practices. Subsequently, demobilized soldiers can be mobilized as educators in their communities, playing leading roles in partnership with health workers and teachers in reaching out to the wider community, especially the youth. Using serving and demobilized soldiers as role models in safe sex practices. Soldiers should be provided with free condoms, both during their service and on demobilization and subsequently. Soldiers should be encouraged to use condoms, not only as a means of protecting themselves against HIV and STDs, but also as a 'best practice' that should be adopted more widely.
School students are both a captive audience and a key component of the youth populations.
Ensuring that schools themselves are models of responsible social and sexual practices. It will only be possible to initiate effective programs of voluntary counseling and testing, and to pursue effective prevention programs, if those who have HIV are able to make their status public and continue to live as valued and respected citizens and members of the community. Leadership on this issue is essential. Measures to combat denial of the reality of the pandemic. In all of the above what became very clear at the ADF meeting was that the above should undertaken by forming a grand coalition including civil society organizations, religious leaders, women's organizations, etc.