HIV and AIDS:

National HIV/AIDS Strategy 2003-2007 - An excerpt

Ministry of National Education: Strategies of HIV/AIDS Prevention through Education - An excerpt

1. unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner (the most common);
2. sharing needles or other contaminated injection or skin-piercing equipment;
3. blood and blood products through, for example, infected transfusions and organ or tissue transplants;
4. transmission from infected mother to child in the womb or at birth and breastfeeding.

    

1. Shaking hands
2. Sharing cutlery
3. Hugging each other
4. Drinking from the work fountain
5. Using the same cup
6. Being a friend
7. Playing together
8. Learning together / going to the same school

HIV/AIDS Prevention

HIV/AIDS is both a health problem and a social problem. Because the spread of HIV/AIDS is strongly influenced by human behaviour, any efforts to prevent it need to take this factor into consideration.

Prevention efforts among the general population consist of improving skills and knowledge, in ways appropriate to local religious and cultural norms, about how the virus in transmitted, its consequences and how to prevent it, using existing IEC methods.

Disseminating knowledge through formal and non formal education as well as through religious channels is achieved by systematically integrating HIV/AIDS materials into their regular curriculum. This requires capacity building for teachers, tutors, trainers, bureaucrats and leaders of work units, who can pass such information to their students or subordinates.

Proper implementation of an IEC program also calls for capacity building for those on the front line-healthy workers, social workers, outreach workers, teachers, master trainers and so on.

Prevention efforts directed at high-risk population such as sex workers and their clients, PLHA and their partners, IDUs, and others who, due to the nature of their work, are at risk of being infected with HIV/AIDS should be based on effective prevention measures such as condom use, harm reduction, observance of universal precautions and so on.

Working on this conceptual basis, the following target groups need to be defined.

Foreword

As we understood that the issue of HIV/AIDS is not only a health issue but it has implications on politics, social, religion and law or statute. Even if we don’t try to tackle this issue seriously then the real impact, soon or later will touch almost all aspects of human life and it will eventually threatening the nation’s efforts to improve the quality of human resources.

Overcoming HIV/AIDS through education is quite effective. It is carried out both to the students, teachers as well as education staffs in formal and non-formal ways, which can be done by integrating HIV/AIDS subject to every training session or relevant teaching learning activities. It even can be done specifically through Relevant Communication, Information and Education media.

This prevention strategy of HIV/AIDS was designed to refer to the National Strategy of Overcoming HIV/AIDS 2003-2007 and the Decree of Minister of National Education is meant to be a reference and guideline for education management both in the central and provincial/district level, as well as NGO in the efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS through education. Every unit of institution working in the program can develop further permanent, appropriate program according to situations and conditions.

Jakarta, 21. September 2004
Minister of National Education

A. Malik Fajar