More HIV education needed in schools
More HIV education needed in schools
The number of U.S. public schools offering HIV education has increased in recent years, but more teachers need training and more HIV-prevention programs should be put in place.
That is the finding of a study from the CDC on school-based HIV prevention education.
From interviews with 1,027 teachers in junior and senior high schools, the CDC found that HIV-prevention education was required in more than three-fourths of states and in 83% of school districts. Indeed, HIV education was included in curricula more often than prevention of violence, injury, pregnancy, and suicide, the CDC notes.
A national health objective for the year 2000 is "to increase to at least 95% the proportion of schools that provide age-appropriate HIV and other sexually transmitted disease curricula for students in 4th through 12th grade."
The percentage of teachers who received inservice training on HIV prevention was higher than for other health education topics. However, only one-third had received this training during the two years preceding the survey.
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