Teachers as Conduits for a School-Based HIV Intervention in Kenya.Teachers as Conduits for a School-Based HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. Intervention in Kenya, Chris Brouillard-Coyle, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Karen Metcalfe, and Dan Holland, University of Windsor History In 2003, the university marked its 40th anniversary. Its history dates back to the founding of Assumption College in 1857. Originally, Assumption was one the largest colleges associated with the University of Western Ontario. , Canada; Janet Wildish and Mary Gichuru, Centre for British Teachers, Kenya The Primary School Action for Better Health (PSABH) is a school-based intervention that trains teachers, community leaders, and peer educators to deliver HIV information in schools across Kenya. Its evaluation targeted 120 intervention and 100 control schools in Rift Valley rift valley, elongated depression, trough, or graben in the earth's crust, bounded on both sides by normal faults and occurring on the continents or under the oceans. and Nyanza province Nyanza Province of Kenya, on Lake Victoria, is one of Kenya's seven administrative provinces outside Nairobi; it is in the southwest corner of Kenya. Nyanza includes part of the eastern edge of Lake Victoria and is inhabited predominantly by the Luo. , using surveys, focus groups, and interviews with community leaders, teachers, and pupils, pre-training and 6 months and 14-18 months post-training. Follow-up data collection with 40 target schools took place 26-30 months after training. PSABH recognizes that teachers are not neutral carriers of HIV information, nor do they bring the information into a neutral environment. Rather, the use of teachers as conduits places them at the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. of the intervention requirements, their professional circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or , and their own perspectives on HIV and sexuality, as well as the perspectives of parents, pupils, and local community and religious leaders. Interviews and surveys with teachers have highlighted some of the problems that arise for teachers located at this intersection point. PSABH tries to address some of these issues by connecting to the authority of the Kenyan Institute of Education (KIE n. pl. 1. Kine; cows. ) and including community and religious leaders as part of the training process. The training also provides spaces to discuss potential problems with colleagues and ideas and resources to help with the delivery of the program within the schools. Interventions which expect teachers to act as conduits of HIV and sexuality information need to address the various issues which confront these individuals in the delivery of this information. By providing teachers with authoritative referents and resources and addressing their concerns about the delivery of HIV information, PSABH has been a successful motivator for the inclusion of HIV programming in classes and in school activities. |
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