In 1995, the European Commission invited a group of about 20 European and African
scholars to meet in Brussels. They represented three research teams who had each …

In response to the high and rising rate of HIV infection among adolescents in South Africa, a
number of school-based AIDS prevention programmes have been initiated by researchers …

The vulnerability to HIV/AIDS of adolescents and youths raises the need for cost‐effective,
school‐based AIDS prevention programmes that encourage safe sexual behaviour. This …

Aims: Action to prevent the spread of HIV among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa is
needed urgently. In order to be effective, such action should be theory and evidence based …

Changing behaviour, even that of adolescents who are just beginning to experience and
experiment with their sexuality is perhaps the biggest challenge facing HIV/AIDS prevention …

Aims: Educators within the school system are well placed to facilitate the dissemination of
knowledge and skills in order for adolescents to be equipped for appropriate sexual …

These conclusions and recommendations mainly affect five parties: researchers,
intervention managers, evaluators, funders and scientific journal editors. Given the absence …

This paper discusses the role of education in preventing HIV in children and young people
in sub-Sahara Africa and presents the results of policy advisory research conducted on …

School-based programmes to combat the spread of HIV have been demonstrated to be
effective over the short-term when delivered on a small scale. The question addressed here …

Abstract Background The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains of global significance and there is a
need to target (a) the adolescent age-groups in which most new infections occur; and (b) …