The purpose of this study is to examine the nature and extent of messages about sex that are presented in the "Family Hour" on broadcast network television. The study employs scientific content analysis procedures to examine a thorough sample programming from the winter of 1996.
The report summarizes the data collected in three separate studies commissioned by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Children Now about sexual messages on television and the impact of those messages on children and families. Contents:-Pt. 1.
This report is one of a set of a series of Education Division of the Overseas Development Administration (now DFID). It sets out to describe current policy and practice related to health and HIV/AIDS education in primary and secondary schools in Africa and Asia.
In every country, there is great debate about how much young people should know about sex, if and when they should be sexually active, and whether condoms and other contraceptives should be available to them. But, whatever the debates, the facts remain: young people are increasingly at risk.
Education for health is a fundamental right of every child. Health is inextricably linked to educational achievement, quality of life, and economic productivity.
This study assessed the effectiveness of education in reducing high-risk HIV-related behaviors in 313 injecting drug users. Participants were recruited and high risk behavior evaluated at baseline and four months following intervention, based on a structured interview.
"Broadcasters questions and answers on AIDS" provides basic information on AIDS and its prevention. It is intended for radio broadcasters and national AIDS programme managers for prevention activities through the media.
AIDS education is increasingly being done at the university level, as recognition that university students are at high risk for contracting HIV has increased. This article looks at how risk communication should be done at this level.
This book is concerned with the health needs of adolescents and in particular with ways of assessing the degree to which the existing health services meet these needs, and with the process of selecting and planning health service research projects that may lead to improvement in the services avai
This draft report looks at the effects of HIV/AIDS in tertiary institutions in Ghana.