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Want to make a Difference in your life and the lives of your friends and others? Get involved with the Positive Peer Prevention (P3) program.

Teens educating teens about the prevention of HIV/AIDS and STIs. Here are the benefits:

• Volunteer service hours you can put on your resume
• Accurate education about HIV/AIDS and STIs
• Public speaking skills
• Teamwork
• Friends
• Negotiation and decision making skills
• Helping people by making a difference in someone's life

This is a fun and positive experience that will impact the rest of your life.

Did you know?

• At least half of all new HIV infections in the United States are among people under 25.
• An estimated eight million cases of STIs other than HIV are diagnosed annually in the US are among people under the age of 25.
• 9.8 percent of Arizona high school seniors said they have been forced to have sex when they didn't want to do so.
• Arizona youth are more likely to have used drugs or alcohol before having sex and are less likely to use condoms when having sex.
• Arizona is ranked second in the nation for teen pregnancy.

P3 is the right program for youth who want to…

• protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• help my friends receive accurate information about HIV and other STIs.
• learn how to express their right to negotiate and say "no" when it comes to having sex.
• to meet new people.
• be a leader in their community and earn volunteer service hours.
• make a difference and maybe save someone's life.

If you answered "yes" to one or more of these statements, then P3 is for you. Call the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS today and talk to bbrados@swhiv.org at (602) 307-5330, ext. 2255.