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Act locally! Identify, seize and expand your opportunities. This was the central theme of the 6th Ethnic Minorities Conference that was held in Amersfoort on October 14th 2011. The program promised to handle a variety of issues. The line-up of the program went from local initiatives, via good practices in HIV and STIs prevention interventions to data, facts and figures. It had become a pick-and-mix with something for everyone.
Which is exactly the idea behind the conference: to assemble partners, stakeholders and interested parties involved in prevention of HIV/STIs among ethnic minorities in the Netherlands. To have them share their knowledge and experiences, to provide for mutual alliances and to discuss the tasks ahead.
You can: Notably - HIV is over-represented amongst migrants and ethnic minorities, especially those who come from Sub-Saharan Africa, and to a lesser extent from Latin America, the Caribbean or South East Asia.
 Infection rates among certain minority ethnic groups have been explained by different studies as being due to engagement in higher risk sexual behaviour, such as having practicing unsafe sex with multiple or successive partners or due to not using condoms (consequently and correctly) during sex. Unprotected sexual contacts with people in high endemic countries of origin might also contribute to the higher HIV prevalence rates.
The Top Seven STIs in the Netherlands: - Chlamydia
- Genital Warts
- Gonorrhea
- Hepatitis B
- Herpes Genitalia
- HIV/Aids
- Syphilis
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