EDUCATION FOR LIFE: A BEHAVIOUR CHANGE PROGRAMME TO SURVIVE HIV/AIDS
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Education for life as a behaviour change programme widely used in the prevention of/and fight against HIV/AIDS, was developed by Dr. Sr. Kay Lawlor with the collaboration of Dr. Sr. Miriam DUGGAN and a group of youths in KAMPALA, UGANDA.
Prompted by the remark of a Secondary School headmistress, Kay realised what is well established today: information on its own is not enough to bring about behaviour change in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
For behaviour change to occur, there is need to provide more than information.
Education for Life was her attempt to provide that MORE. This came out of a deep belief in the Person and in its capacity to change. For TO CHANGE IS TO GROW, TO GROW IS TO CHANGE OFTEN.
This belief is well exemplified in a statement of belief produced at Dakar in 1991 by a group of people called together to explore the issue of behaviour change as a means to prevent and/or fight the spread of HIV/AIDS.
As a programme, Education For Life is built on a three stage process model borrowed from the helping skills model developed by Gerard Egan as follow: see the document
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Author : |
Robert Nkontchou |
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Geographical area : |
Africa |
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Mot-clef : |
Youth Education,HIV-AIDS |
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Organisation concerned : |
Youth Alive - Jeunesse Vivante,FAAF AFLF Africa Family Life Federation |
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Nkontchou Robert Bamenda Cameroon / |