"If you don't abstain, you will die of aids": Aids education in Kenyan public schools

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-179

  Njue, Carolyne ^a,e   Nzioka, Charles ^b   Ahlberg, Beth Maina ^c   Pertet, Anne M ^d   Voeten, Helene A C M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c Skarborg Institute for Research and Development   (Sweden)

^d Social Science and Medicine Africa Network (SOMA NET)   (Kenya)

^e NONE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONDOM; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL EDUCATION; STUDENT; TEACHER; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FACULTY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; SCHOOLS; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; STUDENTS;

EID: 65649094157     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2009.21.2.169     Document Type: Article

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