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Educators are in the business of imparting information. In the case of HIV and Aids, 2009 should be the year when we pull out all the stops.
What is it like to live as a child with HIV? How does a child such as this deal with death, the loss of a parent, poverty or medical treatment?
The United Nations Losses Exercise was designed by people living with HIV/Aids to help others personalise and understand the impact of finding out they are HIV positive. It lends…
There is a part of the brain – just above the eyeballs – that lights up if an image of a baby’s face is flashed on to a screen. This is according to a study released earlier this…
An annual youth programme that tries to offer new perspectives on various issues took place recently at the campus of Monash South Africa in Ruimsig, west of Johannesburg. The…
Schools may well be feeling helpless in the face of the spiralling rate of HIV infections, especially in the 14- to 25-year-old age group. Learners resist the information that is…
If you mention HIV/Aids to teenagers, they say they’ve heard it all – they claim to ”know it all”. Consequently many of them still practise unsafe sex, which leads to pregnancy…
Some learners make a bigger impression on you than others. Naledi was one of these. I met her at a secondary school in Soweto in 2002 where I was working on an HIV programme.…
It is easy to fool yourself that the threat of HIV to teenagers doesn’t need to be addressed in schools with any urgency. There are no visible signs of this ‘silent†epidemic…
