a sourcebook of hiv/aids prevention programs volume 2

The Jerusalem AIDS Project, Israel 99who were not sexually active.• There was no reported change in the levels of substance abuse.Participants were very satisfied with the program (3.73 on a 1–4 scale),with 82.4 percent reporting that all schools should provide JAIP classes,77.7 percent reporting increased awareness of HIV/AIDS, 53.6 percentreporting that the program had caused them to think afresh about theirhealth, and 10.9 percent reporting a decrease in risk-taking behaviors.There were no statistically significant differences in the observed KAPchanges among students taught by biology teachers and students taught bymedical school students.Anonymous questionnaires were used to evaluate the JAIP training oftrainers model in 1995–96 (Galardo 1996). With a response rate of 60 percent(30 out of 50), overall satisfaction from the training activity was high, with23.3 percent rating it excellent, 43.3 percent rating it very good, 23.3 percentrating it good, and 10.1 percent rating it poor. Seventy percent of respondentsreported being highly motivated to introduce HIV prevention activitieswithin the following two to three months.Evaluation of Program in Latin AmericaJAIP’s approach has been introduced in Asia, Europe, and Latin America,following requests from government ministries, NGOs, and interestedindividuals for assistance in setting up HIV prevention programs. JAIPvolunteers traveled abroad to introduce the program design and providetraining. Country organizers then took responsibility for the ongoingactivity of the program.An assessment of the effectiveness of JAIP’s teacher training was conductedin five Latin American countries (Cost Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,Honduras, and Peru). Responses to 1,272 questionnaires administered beforeand after the training revealed that teachers’ mean knowledge rose 14 percentagepoints, from 74.39 (standard deviation = 16.6) to 88.4 (standard deviation= 11.6) (Erbstein, Greenblatt, and Schenker 1996). Attitude change waseven more dramatic: before the workshop, 35 percent of participants wereready to isolate people living with HIV/AIDS from society. Following theworkshop this figure dropped to just 1 percent. Before the workshop 60 percentof participants considered AIDS to be a frightening disease; this figure fellto 36 percent after the workshop. The mean satisfaction was 2.77 score on a1–3 scale (standard deviation = 0.47).Lessons Learned(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank