The
Ministry of Education and Training is drafting a national plan that aims to
integrate the topic of HIV/AIDS prevention across several school subjects
between 2011-15.
The country's 22 million students at all
educational levels played an important role in spreading the message about
HIV/AIDS prevention, said Ngu Duy Anh, head of the Department of Student
Affairs under the ministry.
Under the draft plan, HIV/AIDS prevention
would be integrated into subjects such as Biology and Civic Education in all
schools across the country while additional resources would be put into
training teachers, principals and staff at community centres and educational
training centres for drug addicts.
Le Loi High School in Dong Ha town, central
Quang Tri Province was one of hundreds of schools across the nation that was
chosen to pilot the draft plan. Since 2008, students here have been learning
about HIV/AIDS prevention through different social science classes and fun
activities.
Principal Nguyen Dang Hau said the school had
incorporated HIV/AIDS prevention into subjects such as Literature, Geography,
Civic Education and Biology. The topic was also discussed in study hall
sessions and student club activities and an entire section of the library has
been designated as a display area for information about HIV/AIDS prevention.
A competition was recently held to encourage
students from 16 middle and high schools in northerneast Quang Ninh and Quang
Tri provinces to come up with creative ideas that can be used to raise
awareness
about HIV/AIDS prevention.
Anh said the ministry would continue to make
teaching about HIV/AIDS prevention, reproductive health and gender education as
top priorities in the national education development strategy for 2011-20.
Tran Quang Quy, deputy minister of education
and training, emphasised that the sector would focus on eight HIV/AIDS
prevention activities during 2011-15 period, including diversifying how the
message about HIV/AIDS prevention can be delivered to youngsters, increasing
the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS prevention teaching inside and outside
classrooms, and preventing discrimination of HIV positive children and students.
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