Youth and AIDS
Tags: AIDS (Disease); HIV infections -- Study & teaching
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- AIDS at 20. // Science World (Teacher's Edition);10/1/2001, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p2
Provides information as well as teaching instructions about AIDS.
- Listen to the plea from students about HIV/AIDS: `Educate us'. Billings, Judith A. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Jun96, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p180
Emphasizes the importance for students to be educated concerning HIV/AIDS. Role of the youth in the prevention of HIV/AIDS; Need for teacher preparedness concerning the topic; Complacent attitudes of some people concerning HIV/AIDS; Increasing number of schools offering courses concerning HIV/AIDS.
- The challenge of HIV/AIDS education in the public school. Robenstine, Clark // Contemporary Education;1994, Vol. 66 Issue 1, p55
Discusses the challenge of HIV/AIDS education in the public school. Prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents; Adolescents and sexuality; Drafting HIV education policies and practices.
- NEWS IN BRIEF: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. // Advocate;9/13/88, Issue 507, p20
Reports that the first phase of a study to determine the prevalence of AIDS and HIV exposure in the U.S. was postponed to July 28, 1988 because of concerns voiced by Washington, D.C. health officials. Concern that insufficient planning had gone into the project and that the survey would create...
- Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Classroom. Brotherton, Phaedra // Black Issues in Higher Education;7/18/2002, Vol. 19 Issue 11, p14
Discusses an initiative funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the identification of factors to consider to address issues related to AIDS and HIV in the classroom in the U.S. Purpose of the initiative; Role of teachers in educating students about AIDS and HIV;...
- Telling the Stories of People with AIDS in Rural Haiti. Fitzgerald, Daniel W.; Simon, Toby B. // AIDS Patient Care & STDs;Jun2001, Vol. 15 Issue 6, p301
For 20 years, Hospital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) in Haiti's Artibonite Valley has struggled with the evolving acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Initial efforts to confront the disease met numerous obstacles including denial, stigmatization, powerlessness, and mistrust. Over...
- Children in Need? Listening to Children whose Parent or Carer is HIV Positive. Tisdall, E. Kay M.; Kay, Helen; Cree, Viviene E.; Wallace, Jennifer // British Journal of Social Work;Dec2004, Vol. 34 Issue 8, p1097
International attention is being brought to the global HIV/ AIDS epidemic. In contrast, HIV and AIDS risk being forgotten issues for those living in Scotland. Yet in 2002, numbers of reported infections have begun to rise. Children and young people are even more likely to be affected by parental...
- Shalala unveils Ryan White award. // New York Amsterdam News;01/04/97, Vol. 88 Issue 1, p36
Reports that nine projects designed to study programs for HIV-infected persons and at-risl adolescents, were awarded a total of $3.5 million in Ryan White CARE Act funds. What the projects provide; Comment from Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala.
- A study of the implementation of HIV education programs in Pennsylvania schools. Healey, Bernard J. // Journal of Wellness Perspectives;Spring96, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p132
Focuses on the implementation of HIV education programs in public schools in Pennsylvania. Superintendents' knowledge of the risks of HIV infections; Priorities on HIV instruction in school districts; Plans to evaluate and revise the HIV curriculum; Influence of the reported incidence of AIDS...
