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(PRWEB) January six, 2004

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CD Rom introduced by Greater Schooling Aids Initiative to control HIV infection in learners and employees in tertiary establishments.

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“Your Moves” – a CD-Rom that poses some of the complicated lifestyle alternatives that confront youthful folks has been produced by Increased Training HIV/AIDS Programme HEAIDS to be part of South Africa’s comprehensive greater education sector method on HIV and AIDS.

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Seven thousand copies of the CD-Rom will be dispersed to Universities and Technikons across the nation this month (January, 2004). It will be utilised in induction and initiation programmes for initial year students, as a instructing support, for capabilities development and in campus clinics for students and employees.

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Controversial to some, it even so shows the genuine alternatives South African college students might encounter. It demonstrates that existence is about alternatives. It’s about self regard and behaving with thing to consider toward other individuals.

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But due to the fact these simple selections aren’t constantly manufactured, the maximum an infection rates for HIV in southern Africa are amid young folks.

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UNAIDS in its 2003 report notes that HIV an infection in South Africa is greatest in younger men and women.

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A lady aged 15 to 24 is two,five occasions far more probably to be infected than her male counterparts.

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South African Division of Health stats show the maximum charges of an infection are in girls aged thirteen to 19, adopted by boys aged 16 to twenty five.

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There is already a cure for HIV, it requires no funds, no clever experts – it’s named conduct change.

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With no behaviour change we chance AIDS mutation via resistance to medication and unprotected sexual intercourse.*

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Without behaviour modify we could render a potential vaccine ineffective.

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The US Countrywide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses warns: “Most publicity to HIV is by way of substantial chance behaviours… A vaccine that has demonstrated efficacy in clinical trials – in the absence of concurrent behavioural intervention – could end result in a vaccine whose performance proves decrease than its efficacy.”

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Within every single a single of us we carry the heal for HIV/AIDS.

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HEAIDS works to stop, deal with and eradicate HIV infection, and to market care and help, finding out and investigation in tertiary establishments.

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Improvement of the CD-ROM associated enter from specialists and college students in tertiary institutions. Making use of actors and conditions learners confront the cd-Rom encourages the user to make a option – which in flip shows a screen demonstrating the very likely consequences of this sort of a option. At the finish a chance assessment is offered based mostly on the options the student or personnel member created.

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Why is this required?

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In late 2000, analysis into AIDS at the University of Western Cape by Professor Theresa Barnes of the Schooling Plan unit at UWC observed:

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