School Health Education to Prevent AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) : Teachers' Guide (UNESCO - WHO, 1994, 117 p.): Unit 3. Responsible behaviour: protected sex: 7 No to unprotected sex (individual participation) - How to be assertive with someone who doesn’t want to use a condom

School Health Education to Prevent AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) : Teachers' Guide (UNESCO - WHO, 1994, 117 p.)

Unit 3. Responsible behaviour: protected sex

		(introduction...)
		1 The condom - Information about the condom
		2 Arguments people use against using condoms - How to deal with a partner who is negative about condom use
		3 How to use a condom - Humorous explanation about condom use
		Condom practice - Students practice putting a condom on a model
		5 No to unprotected sex (demonstration) - How to be assertive with someone who doesn’t want to use a condom
		6 No to unprotected sex (class participation) - How to be assertive with someone who doesn’t want to use a condom
		7 No to unprotected sex (individual participation) - How to be assertive with someone who doesn’t want to use a condom

7 No to unprotected sex (individual participation) - How to be assertive with someone who doesn’t want to use a condom

Purpose

To allow students to make their own assertive responses to someone who is trying to persuade them to have sex without a condom.

What the teacher does

1. Decide how to teach this activity.

a) Provide an activity sheet for each student and have them do the activity individually or in pairs.
b) Read the situation and response and have the students write their refuse, delay and bargain ending on a piece of paper (only one activity sheet needed).
c) Write the activity on the blackboard and have the students write their refuse, delay and bargain ending on a piece of paper (one activity sheet needed).

2. Ask the students to read out their suggestions for the three endings.

3. Ask for volunteers to read the entire script with a different ending each time. Examples of the three endings are provided below.

Refuse: Even though I’d like to have sex with you, I definitely won’t without a condom.
Delay: It can’t hurt to wait until we do have a condom. I’ll feel so much safer.
Bargain: Let’s just fool around this time and have sex when we do have a condom.

What the peer leader(s) does

Peer leaders can:

· Write the activity on the blackboard.
· Role-play the three endings.