a sourcebook of hiv/aids prevention programs volume 2

Primary School Action for Better Health, Kenya 119• Emerging issues• School and community response.In the initial design of the program, participants returned for a secondYoung people and conflicting HIV messagesParents should be actively involved. They should not be shy but should be actively involved ineducating their children about HIV/AIDS. The government and particularly the Minister forHealth should openly talk about HIV/AIDS to children and adults. Pastors too should teachabout the subject.Female peer supporter, 13 years oldThe condom message for instance is confusing. The government recommends that people usethe condom. Often teachers and Churches say the opposite, that we should not use condoms.Female peer supporter, 13 years oldweek of training after one semester back at school. Module B materials weredeveloped to revisit the initial training material, with tighter focus on theneeds of young people and the need for interactive teaching methods. Overtime the two modules were merged into a single training publication.Project materials are supplemented by publications such as The AIDSHandbook and Choices: A Guide for Young People.Classroom materialsThe program used a range of classroom materials for different agesand activities:• Let’s Talk about AIDS books, developed by KIE, available as class sets inschools for use at the teachers’ discretion• HIV/AIDS readers (short-story books depicting how HIV/AIDS affectspeople’s lives and how the people in the stories respond)• Videos, such as “Silent Epidemic” and “Everyone’s Child”; materialsfrom The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) on HIV/AIDS counseling;and the “Bush Fire” and “Sara” materials• Stay Alive materials (an eight-week course for children in classes 4 and 5,including discussion of topics with parents• “Family impact” lesson plans and teaching resources, for classes 7 and 8,including a component that engages parents• Additional resources provided by a range of stakeholders, including the(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank