This report explores how HIV/AIDS education is implemented and received by schools in India and Kenya. Through a mixture of quantitative and qualitative approaches, the research catalogues the reported attitudes of 3,706 teachers, pupils, parents and other key stakeholders in the educational community.
The report addresses the following four questions:
1. What is the parental and community demand for school?based HIV/AIDS education?
2. What role does the school have in teaching young people about HIV?
3. How is HIV/AIDS education being taught in the classroom?
4. What difficulties exist in successfully delivering school?based HIV/AIDS education?
The research indicates that in both Kenya and India teachers and schools play a pivotal role in teaching young people about HIV and AIDS. On the whole, parents appear to support schools in this endeavour, partly as it relieves their own responsibilities for discussing HIV/AIDS. However, perceptions of risk of
HIV appear not to be ?personalised? with an und
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Robert Worthington
Contributed on:
19 March 2006