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BASINGSTOKE schools, colleges and night spots will be targeted by health workers in combat gear this week as part of a campaign to raise awareness about HIV.

To mark World AIDS Day, which took place on Saturday, and as part of a national "GI Jonny" project with the BBC, NUS and Terrence Higgins Trust, the sexual health team from the Hampshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) will be out and about reminding people that good sexual health is vital and that there is still no cure for HIV.

As part of the project, workers will be "recruiting" young people to fill in pledge cards to wear a red ribbon to stop HIV prejudice and carry and use condoms.

The team will also be targeting local pubs in the area and offering them a free pub quiz, which, among usual questions, tests pub-goers' knowledge of sexual health.

Andrew Smith, from the PCT's HIV Prevention Service, said: "World AIDS Day is about highlighting HIV, recognising stigma and prejudice, and providing information about how transmission can occur.

"We'll be reminding people that there is still no cure for HIV, to use a condom and to check out the GI Jonny site for extra info,"

The team will be out at Liquid nightclub, in Basingstoke, tomorrow evening.

For more information, visit www.gijonny.co.uk

9:11am Tuesday 4th December 2007

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