Living With Hiv Aids

HIV / AIDS is a global problem of the new era of science and technology and we should know that the problem of AIDS is widespread challenge to human survival. Children and youth should be equipped with the knowledge, attitudes, values and skills that will help meet these challenges and help them make healthy lifestyle as they grow. Teaching in schools is one of the ways in which children can be helped to meet these challenges and make such choices.

Provide information on HIV (transmission, risk factors, how to avoid infection) is necessary but not sufficient to achieve a healthy behavior change. Programs that provide accurate information to counter myths and misinformation, often report improvements in knowledge and attitudes, but it is not correlated with changes in behavior related to risk taking and desirable behavioral outcomes. Education can be effective in the task more difficult to achieve and maintain a behavior change on HIV / AIDS. Schools can be a place that practices discrimination, prejudice and fear is excessive or is reflective of society equity.School policies need to ensure that every child and young person has the right to education, the life, especially when that education is necessary for survival and prevent HIV infection.

HIV infection is one of the major problems facing school children today. They face fear if they are ignorant, discrimination if they or a family member or friend is infected, and suffering and death if they are not able to protect themselves from this preventable disease .

An estimated 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV / AIDS, at least one third of them are young people aged 15-24. In 1998, more than 3 million young people have been infected worldwide, including 590,000 children under 15 years. More than 8,500 children and young people are infected with HIV every day. In many countries more than 50% of all infections are among 15-24 year olds, AIDS is likely to be within range of a few months to more than 10 years.

Studies have demonstrated the enormous impact of HIV and AIDS on the education sector and quality of education, particularly in certain regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. Consequences of the AIDS epidemic include a probable decrease of demand for education, coupled with absenteeism and an increase in the number of orphans and school dropouts, especially among girls. Girls are socially and economically more vulnerable to conditions that force people to accept the risk of HIV infection in order to survive. A decrease in the education of girls will have serious negative effects on the progress made over the last decade to provide adequate education for girls and women. Reducing the number of classes or schools, a shortage of teachers and other staff, and reduced resources for all education systems undermine the prospects for education.

Effective against HIV / AIDS and prevention is needed in all schools for all children so that no one is left ignored. However, schools in many places, are worried that sex education or discussions of sexuality because of cultural demands to protect adolescents from sexual experience. The women often lack skills needed to communicate their concerns with their sexual partners and engage in behaviors that reduce their risk of infection, such as condom use, which is often controlled by men.

The school can be a place that practices discrimination, prejudice and fear is excessive or demonstrates the commitment of the company equity. School policies should ensure that every child and young person has the right to education, HIV / AIDS, especially when that education is necessary for survival and prevention of HIV infection.

A review UNAIDS (1997) of 53 studies that assessed effectiven.