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Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is virus that weakens the immune system of the body through destruction of the white blood cells. Whereas, AIDS term as; acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease due to the infection of HIV. Knowledge of health, and practices among teachers of primary schoo...

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Main Authors: Mustapha, Abdu, Umar, Ahmad, Ibrahim, Faisal, Syed Hassan, Syed Tajuddin, Ismail, Suria, Yakasai, Musa Garba
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Published: Elsevier 2016
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spelling my.upm.eprints.292472017-11-10T04:55:30Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29247/ Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa Mustapha, Abdu Umar, Ahmad Ibrahim, Faisal Syed Hassan, Syed Tajuddin Ismail, Suria Yakasai, Musa Garba Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is virus that weakens the immune system of the body through destruction of the white blood cells. Whereas, AIDS term as; acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease due to the infection of HIV. Knowledge of health, and practices among teachers of primary school are scanty. Studies indicated that few teachers have heard or even became aware that HIV/AIDS is a viral infectious, and some of them lacked the knowledge about its mode of transmission with low attitudinal behaviours. Thus, this review paper discusses some health promotion measures and relevant information regarding, how the use of educational intervention in primary school teachers, could help in reducing the incidence cases of HIV/AIDS in Africa. We therefore recommend effective educational intervention programmes should be set for primary school teachers, in order that the teachers and the students could have a sound knowledge of health practices that will change their attitude which in turn reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission. Elsevier 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29247/1/Effectiveness%20of%20HIVAIDS%20educational%20intervention%20in%20increasing%20knowledge%2C%20attitude%20and%20practices%20for%20primary%20school%20teachers%20in%20some%20part%20of%20Africa.pdf Mustapha, Abdu and Umar, Ahmad and Ibrahim, Faisal and Syed Hassan, Syed Tajuddin and Ismail, Suria and Yakasai, Musa Garba (2016) Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa. HIV & AIDS Review, 15 (1). pp. 17-25. ISSN 1730-1270 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1730127015000557 10.1016/j.hivar.2015.05.004
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description Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is virus that weakens the immune system of the body through destruction of the white blood cells. Whereas, AIDS term as; acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease due to the infection of HIV. Knowledge of health, and practices among teachers of primary school are scanty. Studies indicated that few teachers have heard or even became aware that HIV/AIDS is a viral infectious, and some of them lacked the knowledge about its mode of transmission with low attitudinal behaviours. Thus, this review paper discusses some health promotion measures and relevant information regarding, how the use of educational intervention in primary school teachers, could help in reducing the incidence cases of HIV/AIDS in Africa. We therefore recommend effective educational intervention programmes should be set for primary school teachers, in order that the teachers and the students could have a sound knowledge of health practices that will change their attitude which in turn reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission.
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author Mustapha, Abdu
Umar, Ahmad
Ibrahim, Faisal
Syed Hassan, Syed Tajuddin
Ismail, Suria
Yakasai, Musa Garba
spellingShingle Mustapha, Abdu
Umar, Ahmad
Ibrahim, Faisal
Syed Hassan, Syed Tajuddin
Ismail, Suria
Yakasai, Musa Garba
Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa
author_facet Mustapha, Abdu
Umar, Ahmad
Ibrahim, Faisal
Syed Hassan, Syed Tajuddin
Ismail, Suria
Yakasai, Musa Garba
author_sort Mustapha, Abdu
title Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa
title_short Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa
title_full Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa
title_fullStr Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of Africa
title_sort effectiveness of hiv/aids educational intervention in increasing knowledge, attitude and practices for primary school teachers in some part of africa
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2016
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