subject: Hiv Disease And Aids Virus In Men And Symptoms In Women [print this page] Regions such as HIV / AIDS through individual behavior, social relationships and peer pressure, cultural norms, and abuse can contribute to health and lifestyle issues among children and adolescents. As more evidence that their affairs and health, health approach to HIV / AIDS and sex education works, is more effective than teaching knowledge itself. T
Here are a number of studies show that information on topics such as sex, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV transmission (transmission, risk factors, how to prevent infection) is necessary but not sufficient to implement health (Hubley, 2000 ). Programs, accurate information on myths and misinformation that often offers to avoid reported improvements in knowledge and attitude, but is not related behavior, risk behavior and the desired result (1995 Gatawa, UNAIDS, 1997). HIV / AIDS education to health can be a difficult task to achieve and maintain a behavior that is effective.
Health education on HIV / AIDS has been widely used:
This problem mainly affects men and women and older children and adolescents in this age and younger children are also facing major problems of health, where education plays an important role in the sustainable management and prevention. Health education on HIV / AIDS has an important role in preventing infections. This is done by promoting knowledge in areas such as symptoms, transmission and behavior in relation to the number of infections in the community, attitudes and personal responsibility, family and community health trust change habits a little health, skills, such as to avoid behavior that may lead to infection, to encourage people to unhealthy habits to communicate messages of infected family members, friends and members of society (WHO, 1996).
This information health claims on HIV / AIDS focuses on developing knowledge, attitudes, values and skills (including skills such as interpersonal skills, critical thinking and creative decision making and self-awareness) is necessary to identify and act on decisions more appropriate and positive health-related. Health in this context, increased physical health, psychosocial and environmental health issues.
This approach uses a student-centered, and the method of participatory democracy, to allow participants to explore and acquire knowledge that promotes health, attitudes, values and skills they need to risk situations and unhealthy to prevent and to establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle practices.
HIV / AIDS - the critical need for health education:
HIV / AIDS is an area on the scope and consequences of the problem is that urgent preventive measures including health education, is crucial. Training of health is increasingly used to reach children and adolescents to help halt the spread of this devastating epidemic. Studies show that African children between 5 and 14 the lowest incidence of HIV infection. Children under five are vulnerable to infection from mother to child, and after they are sexually active as soon as possible, including increasing the number of infections - particularly young people (Kelly, 2000). Children 5-14 must have reached this critical moment in his life and provide a "window of hope in the spread of HIV / AIDS.
Health, HIV / AIDS behavior change:
Currently, there are strong indications that a growing number of studies on health education on HIV / AIDS in the right context to use behavior modification - including implementation of a difficult and sensitive areas of knowledge-based health education has not.
For example: Sexuality and HIV Education USA:
This study was conducted in four schools in New York City ninth grade and 11 pupils (867 pupils), intervention (program for AIDS prevention), and a sense of control (n AIDS prevention program). The program aimed to correct the facts of AIDS, teaching cognitive skills to assess risk of transmission, increasing knowledge about AIDS prevention funding, so understanding the risk behaviors, clarify personal values, to understand the outside influences and education delays sexual intercourse and / or consistent use of condoms. The assessment, conducted three months after completion of the program showed that the intervention group following positive results in the behavior of the control group showed: decrease in the proportion of couples with high risk, monogamous relationship and increased use of condoms has risen steadily. (Walter and Vaughan, 1993).
HIV / AIDS in Nigeria:
Training of health have been implemented in most schools in Nigeria at the level of knowledge, influence attitudes and encourage safe sexual practices among high school students to increase. The study evaluated a similar program was conducted comparing 223 students who receive comprehensive sexuality education in 217 controls. Students in the intervention group received one session of six weeks running 2-6 pm, with activities that include lectures, screenings of films, stories of role-plays, songs, debates, essay and demonstration of correct use of condoms. After the intervention was the intervention of a group of students a better understanding and greater tolerance for people of AIDS, compared with controls. The average number of sexual partners in the intervention group decreased, whereas the control group showed a slight increase. The program also succeeded in increasing the use of condoms (Fawole et al., 1999), previous studies showed that health education on HIV / AIDS is not behavior of students, especially young people to change.
Arrangements to implement the Health HIV / AIDS:
Although there is strong evidence that prevention of HIV / AIDS are effective if used correctly and supports this approach and its success in achieving greater national scale is one of the biggest challenges.
To be effective, should AIDS programs include:
reassure stakeholders that these messages are useful:
The talk and teach about reproductive health and HIV / AIDS can lead to earlier initiation of sex or promiscuity. Research shows that a well implemented programs based on fitness, which was conducted in accordance with the spirit of free debate on all issues, it is likely that young people delay sexual initiation and reducing the frequency of sex relations and the number of sexual partners (Kirby a al. 1994, UNAIDS, 1997).
Supporting teachers: the lack of support for new programs is a major obstacle to success. Most teachers in both content and methods of programs on HIV / AIDS is a new and potentially more sensitive method, and still has great potential to help teachers in their work and personal life because of HIV / AIDS, of course, also affect teachers. Adequate support, training, exercise and time to be available for teachers, both pre-service training and seminars to analyze and develop their positions in order to facilitate and motivate them to implement their new skills and abilities, not to continue with using the more didactic, traditional teaching methods, which often focus on information alone (1995 Gatawa Gachuhi 1999). In addition, sufficient time and should lead to curriculum that all students have access to prevention of HIV / AIDS.
Start time: About aimed at young people, programs targeting children at an early age to develop appropriate messages before they leave school (Gachuhi 1999, Partnership for Child Development, 1998). Because younger children are not usually sexually active, those programs include the building blocks for a healthy lifestyle and avoid the risk, not very specific issues related to sex and HIV / AIDS, which has gradually introduced programs older age groups. But a large number of children in primary and different ages is a constant problem, especially if the offer to sensitive questions. Active and independent learning methods that are commonly used in teaching may be useful to overcome these problems managing the classroom, to a certain extent.
