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The Expanded Life Planning Education Program (ELPE), Nigeria 177knowledge and to adopt healthy attitudes and skills for dealing withlife situations.• Students can learn about how their bodies, especially the reproductivesystem, work.• Teachers can be trusted with the task of guiding the behavior of students.• LPE has the potential to challenge students to take responsibility fortheir reproductive health behaviors.• Students feel that classroom teaching of LPE is best. Undertaking LPE inschool does most to increase the involvement and participation of students.It captures their attention more and is a more effective means of impartingknowledge and shaping behavior than other (ad hoc) arrangements.• LPE complements and reinforces other school-based ad hoc initiatives topromote morals and acceptable social behavior.• Parents believe that classroom delivery of LPE is an effective complementto their own efforts.Over the years the content of activities has evolved in response to a numberof factors:• Research findings showed that young people in the program area wereengaging in risky sexual behaviors that increase the risk of STIs, includingHIV infection.• The incidence of HIV among young people was increasing, intensifyingthe need to do more to prevent transmission.• The importance of the home environment—where young people spendmore time than at school—and the need to provide parents with moreinformation to enable them to discuss reproductive health issues withtheir children was recognized.In response to these factors, ELPE was developed to cover much morethan reproductive health education. Topics added to the program includededucation about the impact of risky sexual behaviors, improved parent/childeducation, and HIV prevention education.Since the program’s inception, it has gone from a voluntary to a mandatoryprogram in Oyo State. It is officially scheduled in the school timetable andintegrated in the Oyo State secondary schools’ joint scheme of work (thebreakdown of the curriculum into units). The success of the program inOyo State has led to its replication in Bauchi, Borno Gombe, Kebbi, andYobe States, with support from the Ford Foundation.(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
178 A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Vol. 2Aim, Objectives, and StrategiesOn the contents of the lessonsWe are taught about the basic facts about HIV/AIDS; the effects; the causes and how toprotect ourselves from being infected. We were taught that HIV is a virus that has no cure.We are also taught how to prevent it especially through abstinence from premarital sex. Weare also told how we can avoid HIV and that it is transmitted from mother to her child, throughsex and sharing skin-piercing objects with an infected person. They tell us that it is a diseasethat affects the nation. We are further taught about sexually transmitted infections, teenagepregnancy, its effects and how to avoid it. We are taught how to talk with others, that iscommunication, and goal setting.Students at an ELPE schoolThe main aim of the program is to improve the sexual and reproductivehealth of in-school youth in Oyo State and to serve as a model for nationalreplication. The program’s objectives are as follows:• Encourage students to develop a positive attitude toward all their bodilyfunctions.• Increase awareness of the potential consequences of unprotected sex.• Help students make healthy and informed choices.• Encourage students to develop relationships based on mutual respect andresponsibility.• Increase students’ awareness of cultural and religious influences on relationshipsand sexuality.• Encourage better communication about relationships and sexual mattersbetween young people and their parents, guardians, families, and friends.• Promote the physical, mental, cultural, and spiritual development of studentsand society, and prepare students for a more responsible adulthoodand a smooth transition from adolescence to early adulthood.• Reinforce the role of parents as a major influence on the growth anddevelopment of their children.The program seeks to meet its objectives through the following strategies:• Carrying out baseline needs assessment and conducting regular monitoringand evaluation• Mobilizing and involving parents and communities in various stages ofprogram design and implementation(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
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