Home --- Life Skills Education with a Focus on HIV / AIDS : Eastern and Southern Africa Region . Nairobi, Kenya: UNICEF Eastern & Southern Africa (2003)

 

This document is a review of sixty life skills education (LSE) and HIV/AIDS materials used in life skills education of young adolescents in twelve countries in the ESAR region, in order to assess and correct myths and biases young people may have internalized regarding HIV/AIDS. Besides UNICEF officers, this publication is expected to be useful to policy makers in education, designers, teachers trainers, teachers, peer educators, facilitators and others working in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention in the education sector. This document is divided into three major sections: 1) It gives background information, presents the findings of an assessment done of selected materials on LSE and HIV/AIDS using a 'Quality Checklist'. Section 2 consist of abstracts of each item reviewed and organized by country in an alphabetical order. A matrix summarizing strengths and weaknesses of the reviewed materials follow the annotations per country. Finally in Section 3, a listing of the titles annotated are presented alphabetically by name of the authors.
Website (URL)	http://www.unicef.org/lifeskills/index_14925.html
Author(s)	UNICEF
Publication Year	2003-11-03 12:57 pm