Preventing HIV/AIDS in schools
The formal education system with a wide access to young people should play a central role in HIV/AIDS prevention.
The formal education system with a wide access to young people should play a central role in HIV/AIDS prevention.
This series of five manuals focuses on young men. While many initiatives have sought to empower women in addressing gender-based inequality, the needs of young men appear often to have been neglected. This manual applies a gender perspective in working with young men.
The present review assesses the effects of HIV/AIDS and sexual health education on young people's sexual behaviour.
HIV/AIDS education in schools is often denied to children and young people because the subject is considered too sensitive or controversial to be taught or it is difficult to find a place for it in an already overcrowded school curriculum.
HIV counseling is an important component of HIV/AIDS prevention. Evaluations from Uganda and Rwanda demonstrated this.
This position paper addresses the integration of HIV/STD-related programmes into the school system, whether through education about reproductive health, life skills or other important health issues.