Viewpoint on Family Life and HIV Education curriculum in Nigerian secondary schools

The Family Life and HIV Education curriculum was developed to drive Nigeria’s school-based HIV intervention strategy for disseminating information about HIV/AIDS and curbing the threat of HIV/AIDS among adolescents and young people. In this paper, we aimed to identify the strengths and constraints i...

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Autores principales: Igbokwe, Uche Lebechi, Ogbonna, Chimaobi Samuel, Ezegbe, Bernedeth Nkiruka, Nnadi, Ekwutosi Monica, Eseadi, Chiedu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Special Issue: School and Community Health in Low-and-Middle Income Nations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7140188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060519844663
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author Igbokwe, Uche Lebechi
Ogbonna, Chimaobi Samuel
Ezegbe, Bernedeth Nkiruka
Nnadi, Ekwutosi Monica
Eseadi, Chiedu
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description The Family Life and HIV Education curriculum was developed to drive Nigeria’s school-based HIV intervention strategy for disseminating information about HIV/AIDS and curbing the threat of HIV/AIDS among adolescents and young people. In this paper, we aimed to identify the strengths and constraints in the Family Life and HIV Education curriculum and its implementation, and we suggest possible solutions to boost its effectiveness and impact. We reviewed the curriculum and searched other pertinent literature to identify factors found to undermine the effectiveness and impact of this curriculum, as used in Nigerian secondary schools. We then proffered possible solutions to these factors. It is recommended that greater collaboration and sharing of ideas and experiences across sectors involved in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts be encouraged, to yield relevant information for more efficient innovation in the Family Life and HIV Education curriculum, which can lead to its greater effectiveness and impact.
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spelling pubmed-71401882020-04-13 Viewpoint on Family Life and HIV Education curriculum in Nigerian secondary schools Igbokwe, Uche Lebechi Ogbonna, Chimaobi Samuel Ezegbe, Bernedeth Nkiruka Nnadi, Ekwutosi Monica Eseadi, Chiedu J Int Med Res Special Issue: School and Community Health in Low-and-Middle Income Nations The Family Life and HIV Education curriculum was developed to drive Nigeria’s school-based HIV intervention strategy for disseminating information about HIV/AIDS and curbing the threat of HIV/AIDS among adolescents and young people. In this paper, we aimed to identify the strengths and constraints in the Family Life and HIV Education curriculum and its implementation, and we suggest possible solutions to boost its effectiveness and impact. We reviewed the curriculum and searched other pertinent literature to identify factors found to undermine the effectiveness and impact of this curriculum, as used in Nigerian secondary schools. We then proffered possible solutions to these factors. It is recommended that greater collaboration and sharing of ideas and experiences across sectors involved in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts be encouraged, to yield relevant information for more efficient innovation in the Family Life and HIV Education curriculum, which can lead to its greater effectiveness and impact. SAGE Publications 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7140188/ /pubmed/31039671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060519844663 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Ezegbe, Bernedeth Nkiruka
Nnadi, Ekwutosi Monica
Eseadi, Chiedu
Viewpoint on Family Life and HIV Education curriculum in Nigerian secondary schools
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title_short Viewpoint on Family Life and HIV Education curriculum in Nigerian secondary schools
title_sort viewpoint on family life and hiv education curriculum in nigerian secondary schools
topic Special Issue: School and Community Health in Low-and-Middle Income Nations
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7140188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060519844663
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