AIDS Education Strategies

Strategies for AIDS vaccines.

In the global AIDS epidemic, over half of all infections have occurred in people less than 25 years old resulting in profound social, economic and demographic consequences. Current estimates indicate that the present 15 million HIV infections will increase to over 30 million by the end of the millennium. For most countries a safe and effective vaccine offers the only hope of controlling the spr...

Concepts Education Strategies

Background: concepts education is considered as one of the important functions of medical education. On the other hand, now a days, medical concepts education with traditional and lecture-based methods are not effective and using new approaches is necessary. One of the approaches that brought new methods in medical concepts education is education of the concepts through new strategies. Thi...

The effectiveness of AIDS education.

Prevalence and mitigation strategies of HIV/AIDS infection risks in Namibian tertiary education institutional hostels

The purpose of this study was to investigate risk factors that could promote HIV infection amongst adolescents and young adults living in tertiary educational institutional hostels in Namibia. Employing structured questionnaires and focus group discussions, we sought to answer questions pertaining to factors, beliefs systems, values, traditions and sexual relations that could promote HIV infect...

Awareness of Students and Teachers towards AIDS and AIDS Education

600 schools going adolescents and 100 teachers from 16 schools of Dhemaji and Lakhimpur district of Assam, India were surveyed to assess and compare their awareness regarding AIDS and AIDS Education. An awareness test was administered containing 38 items for adolescents and 40 items for teachers in the test. Observations revealed that the majority of school-going adolescents are poor in their H...