Empowerment of Community-Based Technology in Increasing Adolescent Knowledge About the Dangers of HIV/AIDS in Yapen Islands District

Abstract

Sexual behaviour in adolescents aged 15-24 has increased in adolescent girls to 2% and in boys to 8% in 2017. Sexual behaviour at the age of 15-19 and the highest incidence at the age of 17 years with a presentation of 59% of women and 74% of men have had premarital sex, this premarital sexual behaviour is a factor in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS. There were 169 cases of HIV/AIDS in the Yapen Islands Regency in 2019 and is one of the 5 areas with the highest HIV cases in Papua Province. This empowerment aims to provide education through community-based technology in increasing adolescent knowledge about the dangers of HIV/AIDS in the Yapen Islands Regency. This empowerment uses an approach and education method using technology and is community-based in increasing adolescent knowledge about the dangers of HIV/AIDS in the Yapen Islands Regency by using social media. The results of this empowerment show that there is an increase in adolescent knowledge about the dangers of HIV/AIDS after being empowered using community-based technology using Whatsapp Group social media, another positive thing is that community-based empowerment is very effective in increasing adolescent knowledge because this empowerment process adolescents are not used as objects of research. but included as peer-education.