EI EFAIDS in Papua New Guinea

Govind Singh and Sagar Nath Pyakuryal of the EI Regional Asia Office participated in the workshop, and assisted the PNGTA to work out an EFAIDS Programme suitable to their context, as well as contributing to a draft union policy on HIV and AIDS. PNGTA expressed their commitment to the EFAIDS Programme and undertook to establish a HIV/AIDS desk as a step towards linking it to their union activities. In terms of HIV and AIDS, Papua New Guinea is one of the region’s most affected countries, with an estimated 1.6 percent of the population currently living with HIV. Since 2005, the Department of Education has included life skills education in the curriculum and set about training teachers in all provinces. To complement this, PNGTA aims to build upon the success of national peer educator style programmes in recent years, and hopes to assist teachers in overcoming obstacles associated with teaching about HIV prevention in the school setting.

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