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Action—HIV/AIDS: What We Can Do

Author: The Action Team

Publication Date: 2003

Target Audience: Young people between the ages of 10 and 25

Language: English

Format: Illustrated Student Handbook and Teacher’s Guide

Included on Toolkit: Complete tool

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Description:

In 2003, an edition of Action: The Environmental Health Magazine was dedicated to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS in young people. This edition includes a colourfully illustrated student handbook and teacher's guide. Used together, these tools increase knowledge and skills to avoid HIV infection. The tools also show how to live a healthy life with or without HIV/AIDS and support those living with HIV/AIDS. Although geared for early teens, lesson plans can easily be adapted to groups of different ages and knowledge levels.

In the Student Handbook young cartoon characters learn about HIV/AIDS. Included are ways to avoid transmission, HIV testing, and caring for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Other topics include how to respond to pressure to have sex and reasons to wait for sex. Young readers will be able to relate to the stories. Each story includes factual information and role models for positive behaviour.

The Teachers Pages offer lots of ideas and information to supplement the comic book. Using the book, teachers can adapt the course to schools, youth groups and communities. Directions for role plays, group exercises and case studies are included. There are also discussion questions, extra activities and tests to measure students' knowledge levels. Ideas for research outside the classroom will help students learn to find information on their own.

Click on the following links to see this HIV/AIDS edition of Action Magazine:

Use the contact information to the left to obtain a copy of this special edition of Action.

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Action Testimonial

The Chiredzi Rural District Council and Minda Primary School in Zimbabwe have both installed Action Magazine’s HIV/AIDS: What We Can Do in their school libraries as an important resource for teachers and students.  The magazine provides important information about HIV/AIDS without going into explicit information that is inappropriate for young children.

Some families are using Action to teach their children about HIV and AIDS.  Charity, the mother of an eight-year-old girl, Michelle, reports that her daughter loves HIV/AIDS: What We Can Do.  The bright colours and cartoon characters attract Michelle’s attention, and the quiz questions and puzzles keep the lessons in mind even after she’s read the magazine.  Charity notes that the magazine does an excellent job of simplifying the important information about HIV to a level a young child can understand without distorting the information.  Michelle can relate to the examples used, such as “I cannot get HIV by simply sharing a desk with an infected child at school or playing together.”  Charity feels that Michelle has developed an awareness of HIV issues that is important in fighting stigma in her future generation through reading this special edition of Action Magazine. 

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