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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
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School Health Education

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School Health Education is a sexuality education programme based on social learning theory. Implemented by the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Uganda, the programme uses interpersonal communication strategies to change basic attitudes about sexual intercourse and to encourage safer sexual behaviours, delays in the initiation of sexual intercourse and, among sexually experienced youth, reductions in the number of their sex partners. The programme addresses rural and urban in-school youth aged from 10 to 18 in Uganda.
Communication Strategies

The programme relies on existing structures, including a full-time health educator and health professionals. A local steering committee oversees the involvement and training of local leaders and heads of schools as well as of parents, teachers, and senior tutors.

During each school term, supportive supervisors visit each school to monitor the implementation of health education activities. These activities include:

  • Implementing the school health curriculum
  • Involving youth in forming school health clubs that sponsor competitions in plays, essays, poetry, and song on health issues
  • Training peer educators and implementing one-on-one peer education on sexual and reproductive health issues
  • Convening regular meetings of parents, teachers, and community leaders to discuss sexual health issues
  • Offering weekly training of senior tutors and science teachers to improve their skills as health educators
  • Organising sessions in which senior tutors answer students' questions and provide advice
  • Training students in local teachers colleges to implement the school health curriculum.
Development Issues

Sexual and Reproductive Health, Children, Youth.

Sources

Sue Alford, MLS, Nicole Cheetham, MHS, and Debra Hauser, MPH, "Science and Success in Developing Countries: Holistic Programs that Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections" [PDF] (Advocates for Youth, 2005).

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