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Act Smart Designed by the American Red Cross and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America An HIV/AIDS curriculum designed to reach young people with lifesaving information about HIV/AIDS. Three units offer curriculum ideas for students ages 6 to 17. Auntie Stella By Training and Research Support Centre "Auntie Stella" is a classroom-based activity pack for secondary school students aged 13-17 years. The pack uses the the question and answer format of helpline letters. It consists of 33 questions and answer cards, the questions supposedly written by adolescents seeking information and/or advice on a variety of topics. The answer cards give Stella's reply. The topics covered include normal reproductive development, social and economic pressures to have sex, gender roles, forced sex, comminication in relationships and with parents, HIV/AIDS and STDs, etc. Cards are discussed in small groups with minimum intervention by the teacher. HIV/AIDS Education Prevention Curriculum By the Department of Education, Virginia (USA) The purpose of this guide is to assist teachers in educating young people to develop healthy, mature, and responsible attitudes toward sexuality, drug use, basic good hygiene, and to develop an awareness of HIV infection and the AIDS epidemic so that young people do not become infected with the disease. The knowledge and skills gained from this curriculum, combined with values taught in the home, will enable and empower young people to lead healthy lives and make responsible choices that will protect them from HIV infection. HIV/AIDS Teaching/Learning Materials in Asia and the Pacific: an Inventory by UNESCO bangkok, UNFPA The package is an inventory of educational materials on HIV/AIDS/STDs used either in the formal or non-formal education sectors. The inventory is grouped by types of materials: guideline materials, curriculum, teaching materials, learning materials, resource/ reading materials, training materials, support audio-visual materials. Life skills manual By Peace Corps, 2000 The manual contains practical skills-building exercises for use with youth and community groups that is especially sensitive to cultural issues facing Africans confronted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In addition to providing lessons on how to build self-esteem, improve communication, decision-making and goal-setting skills, the manual contains 10 updated sessions plans on HIV/AIDS. Life skills on adolescent reproductive health: package of lessons and curriculum materials By UNESCO Bangkok This package focuses on the need for adolescents to develop life skills concerning their reproductive and sexual health in order to gain positive and adaptive behaviours that help them make decisions and manage the challenges of their lives. This package is not only aimed at the teenagers who are in the schools but most importantly it is meant for the teachers and trainers who also need to develop adequate knowledge and skills on how to teach students how to acquire life skills in their reproductive and sexual lives. Includes a lot of HIV/AIDS materials.

  Schools HIV/Aids Resource Pack
By Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)
This HIV/AIDS Resource Pack consists of basic information about HIV and AIDS, followed by eight activities for use in the classrooms.

STI/HIV: sexually transmitted infections: briefing kit for teachers
By WHO. Regional Office for the Western Pacific
A briefing kit for school teachers about STI and its consequences on the health of young people. The kit contains key information on STI as well as suggestions for teaching STI/HIV education.

Training and resource manual on school health and HIV/AIDS prevention
By Education International, 2001
The manual provides resources (including fact sheets and accurate information and data about HIV/STI) and examples of interactive skill-building activities, designed to strengthen teaching and advocacy skills of teachers and trade union leaders. The manual can support and increase the efforts of teachers unions to apply their capacities and experiences to strengthen HIV-related curricula and training programmes for teachers and other members of the community.

Zig-Zaids
By FIOCRUZ
Zig-Zaids is a educational game which provides information for preadolescents about the transmission, treatment, and prevention of AIDS, in addition to encouraging discussion about its psychosocial aspects, all in a game setting. It can be used in public and private primary schools. The game is made up of the following: a gameboard with squares, some of which are numbered from 1 to 23, others of which have illustrations with the wild card symbol, and still others of which have commands like "GO", "GO BACK", and "STAY PUT"; game pieces; dice; a wild deck (cards with information on AIDS); and a deck numbered from 1 to 23 (where one side of each card has questions on AIDS and the other side has both answers and information about the player's next move).

Also see IBE Global Curriculum Bank for HIV/AIDS Preventive Education