Evaluation of a school-based HIV prevention intervention among Yemeni adolescents
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Evaluation of a school-based HIV prevention intervention among Yemeni adolescents
BACKGROUND This article describes an evaluation of a school-based peer education intervention for HIV prevention among students in twenty seven high schools in Aden, Yemen. The intervention was developed after a survey among the same population in 2005, which revealed a high level of stigma towards people living with HIV (PLWH) and a low level of HIV knowledge. METHODS In a quasi-experimental...
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In 2005, a survey was conducted among all the 27 high schools of Aden, which revealed low levels of knowledge on major prevention measures, and a high level of stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV (PLWH). The results served as a baseline for implementing a school-based peer education intervention for HIV prevention in the 27 schools of Aden. In 2008, and after 3 years of imp...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-279