how can sex education at primary and secondary level help in minimizingor reducing the spread of hiv/aids?
452820
How aids spreads and how the spreading of it can be prevented. This should be taught.\nAlso, what aids is, how it affects the human life. If possible, bringing volunteer patients into the classroom to share their own experiences would probably be effective. I'm not exactly sure about "primary level", though. Probably this should begin at grade 5 or so.
749837
'KNOWLEDGE   ** AIDS **   PREVENTION'
632654
The most important approach is to show the young generation wisely that you can enjoy sex even better by using condoms .But how do you set this very simple information to be more attractive to them ? I think world hleath organization should make an advertising campaign so as to have many contribution to unveil the message to the target group ( the young ).
1001567
well, really, we should. we have it at my school. however, i think it's a combination of two things. the first is schools wanting to let parents decide what sort of information to give (or not give) their children on the subject. otherwise it's just the kind of people who think that it's better to tell your kids to abstain than give them condoms because you're just "asking for it".
104709
It may be the boldest answer you will get in this forum, but I have AIDS. To truely put a face to this epidemic I would be honored to send you a digital photograph of myself that you can use in your educational campaign. If interested just let me know. Email to cruiserinthecity@yahoo.com and put AIDSPHOTO as the subject. Serious inquiries only please. Thank you.
249735
People might still have careless sex but the awareness of these diseases seems to have tripled. Along with all the funding it takes to run commercials and visit schools in the name of educating people about STD's. I think teens might always be a little careless but as an adult it seems to me that the people in my age group would all rather keep one partner as opposed to having many sexual partners. Like back in the 80's nobody used condoms. As a matter of fact if you could find some numbers on condom sales you might be able to draw on those numbers to back your point up. I also think some people would just as soon pick up a toy or a magazine as opposed to sleeping with someone and catching something. Perhaps that also contributes to the rise in the porn industry.
445318
yup!\ninformation dissemination regarding sex is necessary for students. such can answer questions that they would otherwise be too awkward to ask their parents or adults.  it can also correct the possibly distorted information they get from many sources including their peers. moreover, by providing them with information, they can be more responsible with their sexual behavior.  \nthe impact of irresponsible sexual behavior includes many other things including risks of sexually transmitted dieseases as well as unwanted pregnancies.  pregnancy in teenage women is much riskier than that in women in their twenties.  moreover, there is this study that shows that infant mortality is lesser with mothers who have some kind of sexual education.
448485
Well First of all i would say this is a very good question. But i think the status in India is getting worse every day, i just read accoding to a survey it is increasing by 10% every year so it means if it continue at the same level, then in 10 years everyone in the county will be HIV positive. Thats Terrible. About the steps taken by govt, they are doing nothing, let me give you a very good example, i myself is 19 yr old guy from Delhi and i have sex every week with a new girl and i think this is gonna continue. But no one ever came to me asking for HIV check up.  I think the government should make these checkups necessarry for everyone betweenthe age of 18-28. And there is ofcourse a lot to do.\nHope it will give you a answer you were looking for.
872033
never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of determined people.  All over Africa, the governments have been trying to educate their citizens about HIV.  And for the most part, they are literally laughed at.  In a majority of those nations, women do not have the right to say no to a man, much less demand he use a condom.  And the men simply refuse to believe that they must at the very least practise safe sex, or abstinence...they do not believe they can sicken and die until it actually happens, and sometimes even then, they do not believe that it was having sex that gave them the disease.  Frankly, I think HIV is turning out to be an excellent way of cleaning out the gene pool.
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the government and ngos have been spreading awareness about aids through the medium of television and news paper. but then they don't reach the poor and illiterate. for that volunteers are needed who can go from door to door and explain the use of condoms and how to protect one from aids.\n\nbut its not true that this problem is restricted only to slum dwellers. its present even in the upper classes.\nthis problem is wide spread....\nwe have to take time out to help aids affected people and spread awareness
126837
By ***** I assume unprotected sex. A girl can get AIDS (an infection caused by HIV - a virus called Human Immuno Defficiency Virus) from a person who is alredy infected. If the partner is not HIV +ve, then there's no question of getting AIDS from him/her. To get AIDS (HIV), partner has to be HIV +ve.\nWith HIV +ve partner, you can't indulge in such activities which involve transfer of fluids of any kind. mere hugging, chatting, talking, playing, exchanging clothes doesn't transfer any infection.\nAnd this applies to any partner whether man to man, woman to woman, man to woman. (Important)\nMost common ways of transferring HIV are:\nBlood transfusion\nPricking with the needles infected with HIV\nUnprotected Sex with HIV +ve partner\n\nPreventive Measure:\n1. Get screend for HIV, thats how we can contribute towards HIV free generation\n2. Transfusion of screend blood\n3. Use of Condoms during sex\n4. Use of sealed disposable syringes/razors/knives\nhope it helps
935658
Who knows what they teach nowadays!  When I had sex ed and health class in middle school and high school about a decade ago they taught a lot about the internal organs, menstruation, prostate cancer etc., STD's, and pregnancy cycle.
926731
Waaaaay back in 1986, conservative Surgeon General C. Everett Koop came up with a common-sense, effective plan to slow, if not halt, the spread of HIV/AIDS.  The most effective way to do this, Dr. Koop said, was to provide frank education to young people about how AIDS is spread and what can be done to protect yourself.  This included promoting abstinence as the only 100% safe way, but also to use condoms every time a person has sexual intercourse.\n\nFast forward to 2002-2006.  The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief specifies that two-thirds of the budget used to prevent the sexually-transmitted spread of HIV *must* be used to promote abstinence and fidelity.  Most of the PEPFAR teams have reported that this is causing difficulty for them to most effectively fight AIDS in their countries.  The "Mexico City" policy was re-instated, which cut funding to fight AIDS to groups who also provide resources on abortion (thankfully, this was later reformed so that these organizations could qualify for funding, as long as the family-planning aspect and AIDS-treatment aspect were handled seperately).  On the homefront, millions of dollars have been funnelled into "abstinence-only" programs (many of which also blatantly promote Christianity) rather than traditional sex education programs in schools.  \n\nAIDS will probably never be entirely "stopped," given its nature, unless a cure is found (or it evolves into something less fatal).  What we can do to stop the spread of AIDS, at home and abroad, is to have effective strategies, not ones based on idealogy.
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http://www.teenwire.com/\nhttp://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/medicalinfo/\n\nIf anyone wants more information on HIV and other STIs, birth control, condoms, safer sex ... even how to talk to your partner about these things ... these are good sites. There is even an animated video of how to use a condom correctly. If USED CORRECTLY, condoms are 99% effective!
562922
Absolutely not. All you will achieve by having a shower is getting cleaner. The only way to prevent HIV/Aids is to be careful and use a barrier method of contracteption (e.g. condom, femidom) every single time bodily fluids may come into contact. Don't take a risk!
819917
Lol, who knows? I come from the UK and sex ed is compulsary here but still we seem to have the highest teen pregnancy's in the whole of Western Europe. Sex ed's important though, because it teaches about protection against pregnancy and STD's....I find it quite important that high school kids must know it.
722333
I wouldn't put it past them. When you are in the death business, you have to keep them coming back so you wouldn't want abstinence taught in sex ed.\n\nA 1996 study on Project Reality’s use of choosing the best curriculum, indicated a 54% decrease in sexual activity after teens were exposed to the abstinence curriculum.\n\nFrom 1971 they change sex ed in schools from abstinence to safe sex. The philosophy was it's OK to have sex with anybody you want as long as you wear a condom.\nWell, since they turned away from abstinence the number of girls who became pregnant while using contraceptives rose 266%. There was also a 107% increase in those who had abortions and a 93% increase to those who contracted STDs