An Approach to HIV/AIDS in Girls, Boys and Adolescents Living in Vulnerable Conditions or with HIV/AIDS - El Abordaje del VIH/SIDA en Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes en Condición de Vulnerabilidad o Que Viven con el VIH/SIDA

The project develops promotional and preventative strategies regarding comprehensive education on sexuality, with a focus on HIV/AIDS. These strategies involve the students entered into the public education system and members of the educational community: family members, teachers, community leaders, and the general student population.

 
Some activities have included:

• Promoting civil society participation (specifically, fathers and mothers or adults guardians of the student population).
• Coordinating with the pertinent governmental and non-governmental entities who also do work in prevention, attention, and rehabilitation of minors and their families.
• Improving the problem-solving ability of the institutional, circuit, regional, and central levels of the education system through awareness raising, motivation, and training, as well as the implementation of a follow-through and assistance model that is both systematic and recurring.
• Strengthening the multi-faceted approach to "Sexuality and HIV/AIDS" education in the curriculum.

 
Training directed at different groups of the public is one of the central components of the project:

 
Teachers: Sixteen-hour-long participatory workshops based on living experiences about “Comprehensive Education on Sexuality with an Emphasis on HIV/AIDS”. Each institution that receives training should then work on the theme at every educational level.

 
Adolescents who can multiply the effect: Workshops on the issues of integral sexuality, infection through sexual transmission, HIV/AIDS, and its prevention. This workshop is programmed for two days. Youth are trained so that they can do their student community service with other students in the open classrooms. The means of multiplying the work are proposed and designed by the young men and women through an informational bulletin, a poster, a mural, or other media that allow them to share it with the adolescent population both at educational institutions as well as with students in open classrooms. The participating youth receive help from a trained tutor.

 
Fathers and Mothers of Students: Four-hour-long workshops on the issue of “Comprehensive Education on Sexuality with an Emphasis on HIV/AIDS”.  Themes such as integral sexuality, prevention of infection through sexual transmission, prevention of HIV/AIDS, and how to develop communication skills to be able to share the information with sons and daughters are explored.

Health, HIV/AIDS, Children, Youth, Education.

According to the presentation, the project stays in contact with governmental and non-governmental institutions that deal with the issue of HIV/AIDS in addition to the project’s own activities in order to build alliances that might improve prevention activities such as education. The project also maintains contact with community stakeholders, who have been identified, to keep them informed and raise awareness about the issue.