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13.06.2014 - UNESCO Office in Moscow

Health education on the agenda of the IV Congress of School and University Health and Medicine and Russian network of health promoting schools

About 400 school health workers and researches from Russia and other European and Central Asian countries gathered at the IV Congress of School and University Health in Saint Petersburg (Russia) on May 15-16, 2014. They reiterated their commitment to promote school-based health programmes and learnt about various approaches to enhance health education in schools by using comprehensive scientifically accurate, culturally appropriate and age-specific programmes presented by UNESCO.

Making schools inclusive, friendly and supportive to all learners including those living with HIV in EECA region, which has the highest rates on new HIV infections, was another issue put on the Congress agenda by UNESCO. Regional and Russian national school policies on protection of learners and educators living with HIV from discrimination were presented to the Congress participants. 

The recently translated Russian version of the FRESH supporting Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance for School Health Programmes was launched at the Congress to help the growing networks of health promoting schools and other educational institutions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to standardize health programmes and allow easier comparative benchmarking and monitoring across countries. 

Professor Vladislav Kuchma, the Chairperson of the Russian Society of School and University Health and Medicine, Goof Buijs, manager of the Schools for Health in Europe (SHE) network, and Tigran Yepoyan, UNESCO regional advisor on HIV and AIDS for EECA countries, together with national coordinators for health promoting schools from Russia, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan discussed opportunities for cooperation to strengthen health education in schools across the region. This discussion followed the official presentation of the SHE branch office for the EECA countries which would be hosted by the Russian network of health promoting schools. 

 

 




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