Ensuring an optimal environment for peer education in South African schools: goals, systems, standards and policy options for effective learning
SOURCE: African Journal of AIDS Research
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Swartz, C.Deutsch, B.Moolman, E.Arogundade, D.Isaacs, B.Michel
KEYWORDS: HIV/AIDS PREVENTION, PEER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, SCHOOLS, YOUTH
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9443
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10442
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10442
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2016
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Swartz, C.Deutsch, B.Moolman, E.Arogundade, D.Isaacs, B.Michel
KEYWORDS: HIV/AIDS PREVENTION, PEER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, SCHOOLS, YOUTH
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9443
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/10442
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/10442
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Abstract
Peer education has long been seen as a key health promotion strategy and an important tool in preventing HIV infection. In South African schools, it is currently one of the strategies employed to do so. Based on both a recent research study of peer education across 35 schools and drawing on multiple previous studies in South Africa, this paper examines the key elements of peer education that contribute to its effectiveness and asks how this aligns with current educational and health policies. From this research, it summarises and proposes shared goals and aims, minimum standards of implementation and reflects on the necessary infrastructure required for peer education to be effective. In light of these findings, it offers policy recommendations regarding who should be doing peer education and the status peer education should have in a school's formal programme.-
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