A Child's Mind Required!: Evaluation Results on a Health Promoting Initiative on AIDS and Sex Education for Primary Schools
Cover -- A Child's Mind Required! Evaluation Results on a Health Promoting Initiative on AIDS and Sex Education for Primary Schools -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- SUMMARY -- PROLOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER ONE -- Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Psychosocial Causes of Unsafe Health Behaviour of South African Children and Adolescents -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 HIV/AIDS Epidemic and its Impacts on the South African Society -- 2.3 Factors Contributing to the Transmission of HIV among Children and Adolescents in South Africa -- 2.3.1 Psychosocial Risk Factors Effecting the Development ofHealth Behaviour - The Starting Point -- 2.3.2 Selected Socio-demographic Risk Factors - Poverty and Malnutrition -- 2.3.3 The Sexual Abuse of Children in South Africa - Harmed Health -- 2.3.4 Sexual Behaviour of South Africa's Young People - Complexity of Risks -- 2.4 Learning Processes to Enhance Health - The Application of the Social Cognitive Theory by Bandura (1986) -- 2.4.1 The Research Model and Underlying Assumptions -- 2.4.2 Depiction of Research Variables -- 2.5 Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE Life Skills Interventions on HIV/AIDS in South Africa -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Sub-Saharan School-based Life Skills Initiatives on HIV/AIDS with Pre-Adolescents -- 3.2.1 The Tanzanian Evaluation -- 3.2.2 The Ugandan Evaluation -- 3.2.3 The Kenyan Evaluation -- 3.3 A Case of a School-based Life Skills Programme on HIV/AIDS in South Africa -- 3.4 Factors Influencing the Implementation at School Level -- 3.4.1 Minimal Resources in Public Schools -- 3.4.2 Work-overstrain and Attrition of Teachers -- 3.4.3 Resistance to Teach about Condom Use -- 3.4.4 School Atmosphere and Violence Levels -- 3.5 Conclusion -- CHAPTER FOUR A Needs Analysis for Health Interventions - Case Study of Kayamandi -- 4.1 Introduction.