A lot more young people today find it very challenging to use condom during sexual intercourse. This is very commn in countries with very high prevalence rate. There are cases of girls whole totally disagree with the usage of condoms and they prefer flesh to flesh. There are variuos contentions about this issue. The major is that the feeling is just not the same with condoms.

While in some of the rural communities it is very hard to have access to condoms not even if a person is willing to pay anymoney for such.

Such practices are made without all efforts to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS. It is very important that young people consider using condoms as the first thing in while having sex. Whether is to prevent HIV and AIDS or pregnancy

Hi I would like to get your view around issues of of whether it is morally acceptable for a girl to approach a guy when she loves him. I have recently been talking with a few friends of mine and they all dismissed such a behavour and said they would not take such a lady being serious. So if that is the case how should girls show guys that they except them to say something atleast. Or is this behavour common at your locality?

Stigma and discrimnation HIV and AIDS seem to be inseparable. Both developed and developing countries continue discrimination against HIV positive people.

Military and deplomatic works have taken a lead in the discriminate them campaign. Form India to Lesotho it is a necessary requirement that army recruits should be HIV negative. The worst part is that even priesthood is nowadays considered a thing of negative people.

All these mean that irrespective of your believe or devotion to God, your commtiment to serve your country you just cannot do so be cause of your HIV status. The most unfortunate thing with all these is that in most developing countries there is no support either through the provision of ARVs or atleast e commitment to alleviate extreme poverty that compel people to undertake activities that put their lives at risk.

Is gender equality a term which is meant to have an equal representation of both men and women? This can be interpreted in a number of ways. It could be meaning that we should find a women for every man. We should give both men and women eqaul opportunity(chance)of participating in anything under the sun.

Could youth involvement be gender equality? I would like to invite your views here as we all know that the young people have always been a cinderella for ages. How can we master gender equality if we ignore youth involvement.

We all know that the young people are the last ones to get employment where there is a lot of sklled but unemployed labour and the first to be dismissed if the companies are to cut their expenses.

Developing countries are being encourage to produce for developed markets if they are to realise a substantial growth that would fuel development. But is that the case?

Export led growth is the concentration of scarce financial and capital resources of developing countries to the production of labour intensive produce like textile, cotton, coffee and others.

Such countries found themselves spending thier last penny in the development of sectors that are not in anyway likely to yield real benefit. Let me quickly refer you to Lesotho an Least Developed Country (LDC) that took opportunity with AGOA to export textile to the US. The sector that is well know around the world is earning the economy of that country nothing but rentals of factory shells and underpaid salaries.

Hence all the benefit we might think of when we hear of the word export led growth are been transferred to third countries. Be a country of origin of a multinational or where such company invests its returns. There is no foreign exchange earned, no extra investments but the external costs cuased by the production activies of such companies.

They have poluted our evnironment, our air and corrupted our officials. If export led growth yield us corruption and pollution as the main outputs then Lesotho is Leading as is commonly referred to as the leader in African textile.

I think the Middle East crisis has once again shown us the need to reform the UN in the real sense of the word. The undemocratic security council has once again taken a very long time to reach consensus and condemn the actions of both parties. Yet ordinary civilians are been killed in the processes.

I believe that we will soon remorse our silence to this crisis. The international community should take it upon itself that it is high time that we abolish permanent seats in the council. We have seen for quit some time the veto poor been used to fuel hatred and war where serious mejors needs to be taken.