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1. The provision of a health promoting environment for HIV/AIDS education: the case of Namibian senior secondary schools

   HIV/AIDS programmes in schools ultimately intend to decrease high risk sexual behaviour. One factor facilitating this outcome is a strong health promoting environment in the school. This paper reports a study surveying the health promoting environments supporting HIV/AIDS education in Namibian senior secondary schools. It develops a two dimensional model for classifying the strength of a school’s health promoting environment. The findings show that schools have different strengths of health promoting environments linked more to their size than to a rural or urban location. …

2. Sexual identity, sex of sexual contacts, and health-risk behaviors among students in Grades 9-12: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, selected sites, United States, 2001-2009

   Sexual minority youths are youths who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, bisexual, or unsure of their sexual identity or youths who have only had sexual contact with persons of the same sex or with both sexes. …

3. Building life skills for better health : the Rajasthan (India) experience

   The report presents the process of building life skills through participatory techniques using a needs-based design with reference to the Shiksha Karmi project, and Integrated Population and Development (IPD) project in Rajasthan, India.

4. Socio-cultural aspects of menstruation in an urban slum in Delhi, India

   The paper attempts to understand the experience of menstruation in the socio-cultural context of an urban Indian slum. Observations were gathered as part of a larger study of reproductive tract infections in women in Delhi, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

5. Population education in vocational training programme : Part 3: Handbook for trainees

   This handbook for trainees is based on Part I: Manual for Instructors (IND P373.24 I48p Pt. 1). It contains information and message related to all fourteen topics of population education course contents of ITIs/ITCs. Trainees may find this handbook as a ready reference to reinforce what they have learnt in class and for preparing for their examinations.

6. Population education in vocational training programme : Part 2: Guidebook for resource persons

   This part of training package contains sessions and activities for the resource persons for organizing and conducting a six day induction training programmes for instructors of industrial training institutes/industrial training centres.

7. Evaluation of knowledge level of pupils of 10th-11th classes on the pilot school course "Basics of Healthy Lifestyle and Family": A base line study

   The UNESCO Office in Tashkent is implementing a project on the promotion of preventive education against HIV/AIDS in Uzbekistan. Within the framework of this project they have assisted the Ministry of Public Education in developing a curriculum and a teacher training manual for a newly introduced compulosry subject called, "Healthy lifestyles and family" which includes topics such as HIV/AIDS and its prevention. This base line study has been planned to assess the effectiveness of this project.