Schools : World Aids Day #HIVprevention !Resources

credits: UNAIDS

https://www.unaids.org/en

Observed worldwide on 1 December since 1998 World AIDS Day is the moment of the year where millions of people come together across the globe to celebrate people who lost their lives to HIV acknowledge progress made in responding to the epidemic and recommit to ending the AIDS epidemic. 

• Theme:

This year's WDA theme is "Hands up for #HIVprevention and aims to emphasize the different aspects of HIV prevention (...) what it means for specific groups of people, such as adolescents girls and young women.

World Aids Day

https://en.unesco.org/

"UNESCO believes in education as the cornerstone of a sustainable and effective approach to HIV prevention… UNESCO joins the UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsoring partners in commemorating the first World AIDS Day in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals."  

Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General    

  

World Aids Day
via Birmingham Times
             

Young women between the ages of 15 and 24 are particularly vulnerable to the risk of HIV infection, with 7,500 of them becoming newly infected with HIV every week in 2015. 

Data from studies in six locations within eastern and southern Africa reveal that 90 per cent of 15 – 19-year-old girls in southern Africa and 74 per cent of 15 – 19-year-old girls in eastern Africa accounted for 90 per cent of all new HIV infections among 10–19-year-olds.

These were the findings from the new UN AIDS Get on the Fast-Track Report: The life-cycle approach to HIV, released in the lead up to World AIDS Day 2016.

Addressing the elevated HIV risk and vulnerability of adolescents, particularly girls and young women, UNESCO has been supporting countries to advance the prevention agenda, through work to promote comprehensive sexuality education, as well as through other important health issues, such as strengthening the education sector response to substance use, and preventing violence in schools on the basis of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

UNESCO’s vision for comprehensive action also includes preventing violence in schools on the basis of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. 

These issues will be further explored through the December 2016 release of the Global Guidance on School-Related Gender Based Violence and at the International Symposium on School Violence and Bullying: From Evidence to Action in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 17 – 19  January, 2017.

HIV prevention among adolescents

girls and young women

https://www.unaids.org/

Education: 

UNESCO’s vision for comprehensive action also includes preventing violence in schools on the basis of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Whatever students individual situation may be, adolescents need access to the tools to protect them from HIV. Prevention is a pedagogic aim to observe in schools.

Risks and challenges change as students go through life, highlighting the need to adapt HIV prevention and treatment strategies from birth to older age.

So it's to us as teachers to prevent by educating the students. Information about risks and tools to protect them from HIV is an important competence for their life.

• Resources:

Brochure:

Hands Up For Prevention

Download here

Videos:

On this World AIDS Day, I call world teachers, parents, schools to help adolescents to prevent from AIDS. AIDS is not over, but it can be.

G-Souto

01.12.2016

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Teaching AIDS & World AIDS Day ! Resources

© UNESCO Global Initiative on Education and HIV & AIDS (EDUCAIDS)

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-aids

To mark the World AIDS Day (1 December 2011), UNESCO has launched a comprehensive new web portal featuring all aspects of the Organization’s response to HIV and AIDS, from advancing gender equality and protecting human rights, to helping countries build effective education responses to HIV by strengthening life skills and sexuality education. (...)

© UNESCO

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-aids

EDUCAIDS, The Global Initiative on Education and HIV & AIDS, seeks to promote, develop and support comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS. This means moving away from programming on HIV and  AIDS on a project-by-project basis, and toward a holistic, sector-wide view of the impacts and challenges of HIV.

EDUCAIDS has two primary goals:

• To prevent the spread of HIV through education;

• To protect the core functions of the education system from the worst effects of the epidemic.

Resources:

• Listen Harvard Edcast: Teaching AIDS (discontinued)*

Fast Car: Travelling Safely around the World - Introduction

Screenshot of the game© UNESCO

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• Computer Game:

UNESCO launched the first interactive multimedia tool on HIV and AIDS prevention for youth,  December 23th, 2010. 

The computer game Fast Car:Travelling Safely around the World* aimed to provide young people with accurate and reliable information about HIV prevention, while educating, entertaining and promoting healthy behavior.

• Learning objectives:

The importance of the game consisted in providing young people with information materials on HIV and AIDS that can be widely distributed through communication channels in order to help them to gain an accurate understanding of these issues and preventive practices. UNESCO expected that this game* would change their behavior.

Please read more on my post UNESCO: 1st computer game for young people on HIV and AIDS


Français:

"La connaissance de la maladie se dégrade chez les jeunes. C’est l’une des nombreuses conclusions des études publiées à l’occasion de la journée mondiale du Sida, ce jeudi 1^erdécembre."

"Les jeunes ne perçoivent pas la maladie de la même façon que leurs aînés, sans doute plus sensibles aux campagnes de prévention diffusées dans les années 90. Le VIH tend en effet à se banaliser dans l’esprit des 18-30 ans qui estiment qu’il est au même niveau que les autres IST (Infections Sexuellement Transmissibles)."

Jean-François Delfraissy, directeur de l'ANRS

"C’est une catastrophe. Cela veut dire que les jeunes ont oublié cette alerte qui avait été mise en place il y a vingt ans lorsque la maladie est arrivée. C’est très dangereux, c’est très grave. Je voudrais dire aux jeunes d’être attentifs, c’est une maladie très lourde, même lorsqu’on la développe de manière pas trop virulente."

Carla Bruni, Ambassadrice du Fonds mondial contre le Sida

https://blog.seriousgame.be/ *discontinued)

"Les jeunes ne perçoivent pas la maladie de la même façon que leurs aînés, sans doute plus sensibles aux campagnes de prévention diffusées dans les années 90. 

Le VIH tend en effet à se banaliser dans l’esprit des 18-30 ans qui estiment qu’il est au même niveau que les autres IST (Infections Sexuellement Transmissibles)".

De plus en plus il faut alerter les jeunes sur le sida et les inciter à se questionner sur la sexualité : qu’est-ce que le sida ? comment s’en protéger ? comment se transmet-il ? Comment se soigne-t-il ? Comment vit un séropositif au quotidien ?

Les parents et les professeurs on un rôle assez important dans l'éducation des jeunes sur le sida.

SIDACTION

https://www.sidaction.org/

• Ressources:

Education.France5 et Sidaction se sont mobilisés sur un site abordant de manière ludique le sujet.

Sur Sida une menace toujours présente les jeunes peuvent trouver des infos sur le sujet de façon à expliquer aux jeunes l'ampleur du sida, et les modes de transmissions de l'épidemie:

Sida, une menace toujours présente

https://www.lumni.fr/

• Guerre au virus où vous jouez le rôle d’un spermatozoïde qui doit échapper aux virus à l’aide des flèches de direction du clavier et attraper des préservatifs pour se protéger et des médicaments pour retrouver ses forces.

• Dans la peau d’un jeune séropositif vous met, comme son titre l’indique, dans la peau d’une personne atteinte où vous devrez organiser votre emploi du temps pour chaque jour de la semaine en plaçant les activités et choses à faire dans l’agenda.
• 
  
• Contraception et Protection vous demande de distinguer les éléments contraceptifs des éléments protectifs.

via CISCO

https://www.cisco.com/

Resource +

Peter Packet* est un jeu destiné à sensibiliser sur le Sida au Zimbabwe, l’eau potable en Haïti et l’aide à la scolarisation en Inde.

*(désavtivé)

G-Souto

01.12.2011

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UNESCO : 1st Computer Game for Young People on HIV and AIDS !

Fast Car: Travelling Safely around the World - Introduction

Screenshot of the game© UNESCO

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=494684303389&id=51626468389&set=a.439771058389

UNESCO launched the first interactive multimedia tool on HIV and AIDS prevention for youth,  December 23th, 2010. 

The computer game Fast Car: Travelling Safely around the World aims to provide young people with accurate and reliable information about HIV prevention, while educating, entertaining and promoting healthy behavior.

Peru - Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu

https://whc.unesco.org/

• Education : Target group 

The target audience for the game is young people from 16 to 24 years or older. 

"While racing on circuits on five different continents and virtually visiting some of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites, players will receive information on existing prevention practices, treatment and care for HIV and AIDS."

Teenagers often want to talk to their parents about HIV-related issues, but may find it difficult to do so. Children may worry about parents’ disapproval and have fears about the risk of becoming infected with HIV. 

Parents are often shy, lack accurate information about HIV and AIDS, or do not have sufficient skills to speak about prevention with their children, and teachers frequently assume that parents will talk with children at home. 

Fast Car: Travelling Safely around the World is the game that provides information on existing preventive practices, treatment and care for HIV and AIDS. 

The player can race on circuits on five different continents and virtually visit some of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. It also presents images of sites and interesting facts about them as players race by. 

Greece - Acropolis

https://whc.unesco.org/

• Game content:

The game aims to provide young people with accurate and reliable information about HIV prevention, intending to educate and entertain as well as promoting healthy behavior. 

In this game, the player can race on circuits on five continents, and virtually visit some of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. It also presents images of sites and interesting facts about them as players race by.

Australia - Sydney Opera House

https://whc.unesco.org/

There are two tracks for each continent - a Preliminary track and a Championship track. Every track has a set of check points. At the check point, one can take part in a Mini-Quiz, and possibly earn a time bonus. In the mini-quiz, the player will be asked a multiple-choice question related to HIV and AIDS prevention.

France - Château de Versailles

https://whc.unesco.org/

Languages:

The game is available online for downloading free of charge in four languages here (discontinued )*

• English 

• French 

• Russia

• Learning objectives:

The importance of the game consists in providing young people with information materials on HIV and AIDS that can be widely distributed through communication channels in order to help them to gain an accurate understanding of these issues and preventive practices. UNESCO expects that this may change their behavior.

• Context of use: Cross-curricula/ Sciences, History, Geography, Languages, Civics (secondary education and higher education).

• Developers:

The following local researchers and experts contributed content for the game, working together to ensure its scientific accuracy: 

Path Ukraine (Ukraine), the Institution of Social Development (Viet Nam) and Heidelberg University, Department of Virology (Germany). Lakshya Digital Pvt. Ltd. (India) helped UNESCO to develop the game concept and realize it technically.

*Note: The video of the game is no longer available.

G-Souto

13.01.2011

update 23.02.2025

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References:

UNESCO News Education/ UNESCO Communication and Information

UN : UNESCO launches online game to educate youth about HIV/AIDS (December 2010) 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2010/12/363062