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A joint project of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the National Campaign Against Youth Violence, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Parents Matter makes clear that whether they are concerned about drinking, drugs, violence, trouble in school, smoking, or sex (or all of the above), the best advice for parents is the same: stay closely connect to their teenage sons and daughters.
The report presents an analysis of the results of Generation Rx.com, a nationally representative, random dial telephone survey of 1209 young people ages 15-24, with an oversample 200 non-white respondents. The survey was designed to examine how young people use Internet for health information: are they turning to the Internet for information on their health and well-being; what types of issues are they researching online; how they go about finding the information they need; do they trust what they learn; does the information they find influence their behaviour.
The newsletter recounts the efforts of the West Bengal Voluntary and Health Association (WBVHA) in adolescents' problems. WBVHA is a leading health promoting agency mainly concerned with the basic health of common people. It works to prevent HIV, AIDS, malaria and promoters for caring adolescence health and taking unique steps. WBVHA has already been working with many schools in Kolkata and four districts in West Bengal.
Over the last decade developed countries have experienced a transformation in the scope and reach of information technologies and infrastructures. However, this digital revolution has been slow to materialize in developing countries, further marginalizing them and creating a digital divide. Innovative ways must be explored to leverage these new technologies for a range of development opportunities in the HIV/AIDS field from distance learning to bringing basic HIV/AIDS prevention information to patients and practitioners. …
The guide provides ideas for training activities which can be used for enabling people to participate more actively in discussion about HIV prevention and making sex safer.
Foreword. The South East Asia HIV and Development Project focuses on: i) socio-economic and cultural dynamics between HIV/AIDS and Development, with a particular emphasis on one of the key factors in the spread of the epidemics inside the South East Asian region, i.e. mobility of populations; and, ii) the harnessing of development activities to increase the resilience of communities, households and individuals against the risk of HIV infection. …
This publication focuses on announcing websites dealing with adolescent reproductive and sexual health. It contains around 45 websites selected from among numerous sites on the Internet as of May 1999. The websites are arranged alphabetically by name, more often than not, referring to the owner of the site rather than its title. The profile of each site is first presented. This covers basic information such as address of the organization or owner, fax, telephone numbers, email address and the URL (uniform resource locator) or address of the site. …
This document explains the procedures followed and lessons learnt in setting up an HIV and AIDS website within the Ministry of Education in Nambia.
Institutions of higher education throughout Africa face a major and, in many instances, an escalating threat from HIV/AIDS. Prevalence levels among staff and students are not well documented, but there are reports of systems whose operations are becoming increasingly affected by absenteeism and deaths. The frequency of staff absences increases because of periodic bouts of illness during the HIV stage of the disease; these absences become more prolonged and virtually permanent when the disease has progressed to full-blown AIDS. …
Le Programme Pilote Intégré Education VIH/SIDA et NTIC en abrége PPIE-VIH/SIDA et NTIC résulte de la volonté du gouvernement et du PNUD de lutter contre le SIDA dans le secteur de l'éducation de base en se servant des NTIC comme supports. Le programme entre dans le cadre stratégique de lutte contre la pauvreté au Burkina Faso; et a pour mission, « de contribuer aux efforts du Gouvernement dans l'atteinte des objectifs du PDDEB. »
This report describes a four month experiment to bring information technology to bear on the problem of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. The mechanism was a United Nations sponsored Internet discussion list designed to open up an interactive virtual dialogue around major issues facing educational policymakers. The focus was on the impact of HIV/AIDS on African education systems.
This presentation was shown at an Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Reforms in Higher Education and the Use of Inforation Technology in Africa. It includes the statistics of how the virus is distributed in the continent, the implications, challenges and discusses possible solutions to combat AIDS in the way of Information Technology in Higher Education.
