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Côte d'Ivoire: A New Approach to HIV/AIDS in the Blackboard Jungle
Nov 29, 2006
By Fulgence Zamblé
Education officials in Côte d'Ivoire are revising how children are taught about the dangers of HIV/AIDS in the West African country, this as statistics from June 2006 show prevalence in schools to be at four percent.
The national HIV prevalence rate is 4.7 percent, also according to the 2006 figures -- down from seven percent in 1991.
"In the past, we contented ourselves with mentioning the wearing of condoms...or with skimming over the issue during class," Méa Kouadio, a technical advisor to the national education minister, told IPS. But now, he added, officials are urgently promoting abstinence for young people and condom use by adults through a new curriculum adopted for the 2006-2007 school year.
Copyright 2006 Inter Press Service
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 29 November 2006
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