Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (APSACS) has decided to come up with an Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) from September 15 in the state.

The main motive of the AEP programme will be to spread the awareness regarding AIDS among the adolescents. For this purpose, the programme will cover nearly 16,160 high schools and different colleges across the state.

AEP aims to reach 22 lakh young people across the State this academic year.

While speaking on this the APSACS Project, Director R V Chandravadan said, “Keeping in view the concerns raised by some of the communities about the adolescence education material in the past, this time we have revised the material and taken utmost care to make it comfortable for the teachers to educate students in a friendly manner.”

He also informed that services of 32,000 teachers will be used for this purpose.