"Education for counteracting HIV/AIDS"
The aim of our project is to create the syllabus - “Education for counteracting HIV/AIDS” which is to be oriented at adults who by virtue of the syllabus will be able to play the role of HIV/AIDS prophylaxis instructors. Using experience of different countries in HIV/AIDS problem we have enhanced chance to create a universal syllabus which is possible to implement widely in many (if not all) European countries.
AIDS is a World - wide illness which is also in Europe. The number of HIV infection is growing in East Europe and it is one of the biggest one in the World. This fact will endanger spreading up of the disease to other European countries if we are not able to stop its territorial scope.
HIV infection ends with death in shorter or longer time. Knowledge that upgrades the level of people’s awareness about the problem and that enables to take proper decisions and choices in life situations may prevent infection. An argument that supports the necessity to improve awareness in this aspect is frequent situation to reject infected people by society.
Our syllabus is to prevent discrimination against ill children, youth and adults.
In connection with social consequences of women’s infection (malfunction of the family) it is necessary to pay more attention to their education.
The syllabus is designed for adult instructors.This group includes teachers, tutors, parents, health service workers, social workers and everybody whose profession or function gives possibility to transfer knowledge and skills about HIV/AIDS subject to others.
Our presumptions about the content of the syllabus are:
1. accurate substantive (essential) knowledge (Vademecum) which is easy to implement and clear in its form;
2. scripts for lessons;
3. back — ups for teaching.
This form of the syllabus should encourage future instructors to use it for their courses. In the second year of the planned project we provide for pilot course (syllabus) and its verification.
We plan to make the syllabus public via lessons to be taught by trained instructors, access to on-line seminars/trainings (different language versions). The syllabus will be elaborated in Braille alphabet in relief for the blind and partially sighted in the whole Europe.
To sum up, by our syllabus we would like to prevent infections, break barriers and tame the HIV/AIDS problem. |
