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Research was made by selecting learners at three specific secondary schools. That will be based on their understanding and experiences found in the programs these school's have used. Focus groups and written essays were used as methods for collecting data. The use of the suggested innovations such as using smaller gender-specific groupsm outsider presenters and the involvement of parents and caregivers added more variety of the program format. HIV/AIDS education can be integrated with life skills and values education into a formal curriculum. This approach has been done using literature and by doing further and deeper research about the learner's preferences and suggestions about the format and content of the HIV/AIDS programme development is strongly advised.

HIV/AIDS Programmes: What do learners want?

Presented by Esie Griessel-Rouz, Liesel Ebersohn, Brigitte Smit and Irma Eloff.

Although the importance of HIV/AIDS education is widely known across the world, only 44 out of 107 accounted countries that have studied issues with the World Health Organization in 2001 have included HIV/AIDS education in their school curricula. One of the alarming details emerged from interviews of 277 secondary school principals in South Africa, comfirmed that 60% of their students fall in the moderate to high risk category in regards to HIV Infection. Another problem arose when there is no current South African HIV/AIDS policies or implementation plans that regquire evaluations of the learners that have experienced these HIV/AIDS programmes.

The author's main idea behind this research was to show how essential the value of understanding and learning HIV/AIDS education can help save more lives and prevent innocent people from being infected with either HIV or...