School Health Education to Prevent AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) : Students' Activities (UNESCO - WHO, 1994, 79 p.): Unit 1: Basic Knowledge on HIV/AIDS/STD: AIDS help

School Health Education to Prevent AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) : Students' Activities (UNESCO - WHO, 1994, 79 p.)

Unit 1: Basic Knowledge on HIV/AIDS/STD

		HIV/AIDS/STD - Basic questions and answers
		Looking into AIDS
		HIV, AIDS, STD - What do they mean?
		How a person gets HIV*
		You can’t get AIDS by...
		What do you believe?
		What would you do?
		What is your risk?
		Are you at risk?
		Protect yourself against AIDS
		Dear Doctor Sue
		Which is safer?
		What happens with HIV infection?
		How do you know if you have HIV/AIDS?
		Testing for HIV
		Test: What you know...about testing
		AIDS help - Who? Where?
		You be the doctor
		Are you a responsible person?

Friends, teacher or counsellor, family, religious leader, medical centre, STD or health clinic, AIDS hot line

Why?

Each of us at times may need to talk to someone about important things in our lives.

How?

For each of the situations below, write who you would go to for support and where you would find that help in your community.

	1. You have a close friend who is afraid that he/she might have the AIDS virus, HIV.		2. After learning about HIV/AIDS in school, you are afraid that you might be infected.
Help from: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________		Help from: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Where or how? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________		Where or how? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
	3. You are not feeling well. You have been feeling tired, have swollen glands and sweat a lot at night.		4. Your mother has AIDS, lives alone with you and desperately needs help.
Help from: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________		Help from: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________
Where or how? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________		Where or how? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________